The vinyl collecting thread...

I recently got a bunch of vinyl from a store I found out about last year on a trip to Connecticut. I noticed that when I got home all of the vinyl that I bought from him looked pretty much brand new, not even a speck of dust, nothing. I was wondering is there any safe cleaning methods I can do myself? I'm always afraid to attempt to clean vinyl because I'm not sure what would be good or bad. I bought a few from another store while I was up in Maine and they didn't take as much care for them as the other guy did, but they still seem to play fine except for the crackling.

Phoenix Reign Drummer wrote:

I recently got a bunch of vinyl from a store I found out about last year on a trip to Connecticut. I noticed that when I got home all of the vinyl that I bought from him looked pretty much brand new, not even a speck of dust, nothing. I was wondering is there any safe cleaning methods I can do myself? I'm always afraid to attempt to clean vinyl because I'm not sure what would be good or bad. I bought a few from another store while I was up in Maine and they didn't take as much care for them as the other guy did, but they still seem to play fine except for the crackling.

PRD, this is the approach I use. Works great!!!!!!
http://daveyw.edsstuff.org/vinyl/S&VVC/


...........and I made it from stuff that I already had around the house(except I did have to buy a steamer and I wanted new paint brushes, they were cheap.)

(playing devil's advocate)...a MP3 requires no steam cleaning and lasts a lifetime.

SpectreFate wrote:

(playing devil's advocate)...a MP3 requires no steam cleaning and lasts a lifetime.

A lifetime??!! I've been through three ipods in five years so far! And you can too steam clean...wait.

corplhicks wrote:

SpectreFate wrote:

(playing devil's advocate)...a MP3 requires no steam cleaning and lasts a lifetime.

A lifetime??!! I've been through three ipods in five years so far! And you can too steam clean...wait.

See there's your first mistake...buying iPods. I swear they are designed to fail just so you have to buy another.

SpectreFate wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

SpectreFate wrote:

(playing devil's advocate)...a MP3 requires no steam cleaning and lasts a lifetime.

A lifetime??!! I've been through three ipods in five years so far! And you can too steam clean...wait.

See there's your first mistake...buying iPods. I swear they are designed to fail just so you have to buy another.

Not relevant to topic but I have to ask, what are the better mp3 players right now? I swore mine off but my wife needs a new one, and we decided no more ipods for this very reason.

corplhicks wrote:

SpectreFate wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

SpectreFate wrote:

(playing devil's advocate)...a MP3 requires no steam cleaning and lasts a lifetime.

A lifetime??!! I've been through three ipods in five years so far! And you can too steam clean...wait.

See there's your first mistake...buying iPods. I swear they are designed to fail just so you have to buy another.

Not relevant to topic but I have to ask, what are the better mp3 players right now? I swore mine off but my wife needs a new one, and we decided no more ipods for this very reason.

I don't know. I have had a Sansa Clip for years and it's never given me a problem. I usually just listen to music off my external hard drives or off thumb drives in my car.

I do miss my Creative Zen Touch, I had it five years, abused the heck out of it (by the end it looked like it had been to war!) and it always sounded brilliant. Then I got an iPod looked after it and got 18 months out of it!

Yea I'm on my 3rd Ipod. My first one someone at worked dropped it on me while trying to "help" me. My other one I dropped I still used it up til a few months ago. It worked but every once in a while it would stop. Then I bought one off of my friend and it was working fine until recently. It freezes, and I recently just lost all the artwork for every album on my ipod. I don't know what to do at this point. I like the ipod I just wish it wouldn't have so many problems and take a little bit of a beating.

I've even had hard drives fail so mp3's will not last an eternity. I'm keeping my cds and the vinyl is just something thats actually fun finding for the hell of it. I'll never trust mp3s no matter how much I use them.

My 160 GB Ipod has lasted me 6 years and it still work perfectly fine and has good battery life. Just a few dings and marks from dropping it, but thats it.

chewie wrote:

Phoenix Reign Drummer wrote:

I recently got a bunch of vinyl from a store I found out about last year on a trip to Connecticut. I noticed that when I got home all of the vinyl that I bought from him looked pretty much brand new, not even a speck of dust, nothing. I was wondering is there any safe cleaning methods I can do myself? I'm always afraid to attempt to clean vinyl because I'm not sure what would be good or bad. I bought a few from another store while I was up in Maine and they didn't take as much care for them as the other guy did, but they still seem to play fine except for the crackling.

PRD, this is the approach I use. Works great!!!!!!
http://daveyw.edsstuff.org/vinyl/S&VVC/


...........and I made it from stuff that I already had around the house(except I did have to buy a steamer and I wanted new paint brushes, they were cheap.)

cool i'll check it out thanks!

SwordsChains wrote:

My 160 GB Ipod has lasted me 6 years and it still work perfectly fine and has good battery life. Just a few dings and marks from dropping it, but thats it.

wanna trade?

This weekend at Ragnarokkr Metal Apocalypse I picked up:

Axehammer - Lord of the Realm (No Remorse Reissue #298/500)
High Spirits - Demo 2013 (I had Chris Black sign it)
Jag Panzer - Historical Battles Box Set (bad ass set!)

SwordsChains wrote:

This weekend at Ragnarokkr Metal Apocalypse I picked up:


Jag Panzer - Historical Battles Box Set (bad ass set!)

Damn! I really want that set!

Witchfinder wrote:

SwordsChains wrote:

This weekend at Ragnarokkr Metal Apocalypse I picked up:


Jag Panzer - Historical Battles Box Set (bad ass set!)

Damn! I really want that set!

Its pretty sick, i highly recommend it. And I know theyre selling extremely fast. The book has a TON of pictures.

Witchfinder wrote:

SwordsChains wrote:

This weekend at Ragnarokkr Metal Apocalypse I picked up:


Jag Panzer - Historical Battles Box Set (bad ass set!)

Damn! I really want that set!

You can get it, its available at http://www.hrrshop.de/JAG-PANZER-Historical-Battles-The-Early-Years-4-PICTURE-LP-BOX

but its expensive and the shipping would just add more on top of that which really sucks. I wrote on their facebook page if any of these would be available for the US, this boxset and the re-release cds. Mark wrote me back saying he wasn't sure but was going to look into. That was a few weeks ago and I haven't heard anything. I'll give it some more time and see what he says. I want this and those damn re-releases.

Phoenix Reign Drummer wrote:

Witchfinder wrote:

SwordsChains wrote:

This weekend at Ragnarokkr Metal Apocalypse I picked up:


Jag Panzer - Historical Battles Box Set (bad ass set!)

Damn! I really want that set!

You can get it, its available at http://www.hrrshop.de/JAG-PANZER-Historical-Battles-The-Early-Years-4-PICTURE-LP-BOX

but its expensive and the shipping would just add more on top of that which really sucks. I wrote on their facebook page if any of these would be available for the US, this boxset and the re-release cds. Mark wrote me back saying he wasn't sure but was going to look into. That was a few weeks ago and I haven't heard anything. I'll give it some more time and see what he says. I want this and those damn re-releases.

170 US after shipping to Ca. Not bad considering how awesome it is.

corplhicks wrote:

Phoenix Reign Drummer wrote:

Witchfinder wrote:

SwordsChains wrote:

This weekend at Ragnarokkr Metal Apocalypse I picked up:


Jag Panzer - Historical Battles Box Set (bad ass set!)

Damn! I really want that set!

You can get it, its available at http://www.hrrshop.de/JAG-PANZER-Historical-Battles-The-Early-Years-4-PICTURE-LP-BOX

but its expensive and the shipping would just add more on top of that which really sucks. I wrote on their facebook page if any of these would be available for the US, this boxset and the re-release cds. Mark wrote me back saying he wasn't sure but was going to look into. That was a few weeks ago and I haven't heard anything. I'll give it some more time and see what he says. I want this and those damn re-releases.

170 US after shipping to Ca. Not bad considering how awesome it is.

Got mine for $135 from a fellow distro buddy of mine

I wanted to stock this box set in my distro but it was just to expensive to pick up wholesale when I wasnt sure if i would be able to sell them off. And High Roller no longer is taking label orders on them, so theyre running low on copies im guessing, so if you want it, you better order it direct from them soon. You wont regret it!

I found Raven - Live At The Inferno on vinyl at an antique shop!

JD McPherson - Fire Bug 7"

So, since I started my vinyl collecting in mid-April, I have acquired the following:

Arcadia So Red the Rose
Boston Third Stage
Cheap Trick Heaven Tonight
Cheap Trick At Budokan
Cheap Trick Dream Police
Cheap Trick All Shook Up
Daryl Hall & John Oates Private Eyes
Def Leppard Pyromania
Duran Duran Rio
Duran Duran Seven and the Ragged Tiger
George Harrison Thirty Three & 1/3
George Harrison Somewhere in England
Heart Little Queen
Heart Dog & Butterfly
Heart Passionworks
Heart Heart
Heart Bad Animals
John Lennon & Yoko Ono Double Fantasy
Journey Infinity
Journey Frontiers
Journey Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) / Frontiers
Kansas Song for America
Kansas Point of Know Return
Kansas Two for the Show
Kansas Monolith
Kansas Audio-Visions
Kansas Drastic Measures
Night Ranger Dawn Patrol
Night Ranger Midnight Madness
Night Ranger 7 Wishes
Paul McCartney Ram
Queensrÿche Rage for Order
Ringo Starr Ringo's Rotogravure
Sammy Hagar Standing Hampton
Sammy Hagar Sammy Hagar
Steve Perry Oh Sherrie / Don't Tell Me Why You're Leaving
Survivor Vital Signs
The Beatles Let It Be / You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
Van Halen Van Halen
Van Halen Van Halen II
Van Halen Fair Warning
Van Halen Diver Down
Van Halen 1984
Van Halen OU812
Wings Wings at the Speed of Sound
Wings Back to the Egg

Nice collection so far Sean.

I love Cheap Trick All Shook Up. I'm not sure why people don't like it. It think it's prime CT.

ultmetal wrote:

Nice collection so far Sean.

I love Cheap Trick All Shook Up. I'm not sure why people don't like it. It think it's prime CT.

Yeah, I think its a strong record too...thanks!!

Nice grabs, Shawn. That reminds me I need to get When Seconds Count!