Records are our favorite way to listen. Like a book, it’s an escape. Most of the time, we put on our headphones and let the music take us away. We listen to CD’s the same way.🙏🏻🎧

I intend to purchase every issue, reissue of every format of Davis' 'Kind of Blue", then listen to everyone of them, finally give a definitive order of the best to the worst copy then get my PhD from a top university, publish all my work to that point. Then head to a funeral home or local Costco and order a casket; by then I'll more than likely expire. Freddie Freeloader will be playing as I'm lowered into the sarcophagus with all the 300 or so copies of said recording.

You should have been around in the days before the internet? You might have had some rare shaded dog that someone wouldn't bat an I paying $500.00 or more for that. Today, with the internet touching every corner of the earth and million sites and experts(I say that laughingly) out there hundreds, maybe thousands more have shown up on the market, making it not so valuable. And frankly the whole reissue thing, how come that RL Zeppelin with the magical bass, story background pressed fifty-five years ago can't be duplicated today on a $150.00 chunk of vinyl with the best engineers and superior lathes and tape decks? And the best you can do out side of the originals are Steve Hobsen' reissues that can sell for a grand or more today that I paid $25.99 for originally. Yes, things have certainly changed. In the audiophile market there has been movement by some companies only making top tier product and not bothering with vast middle, sort of like the US economy is going. I blame the audio rags in the late eighties starting the fall of hi fidelity audio along side the start of the information tech explosion for the lack of newbies as the business refers to lack of interest. But that's another story. PS, I'm not/wasn't aware of Walmart pressings.

I sometimes don’t trust what i run through Discogs because the first copy’s it shows are unofficial but when you scroll on it shows official releases….I have 2 albums i’m not sure about and it bugs me…

very cool channel

For me the main reason for getting an original copy is the nostalgia factor. I would much prefer buying an original copy of Born in the USA than the most recent one that celebrated 40 years of its release. Of course, the stores want to sell these reissues and they will, but for people like me that collect old records, it's hard.

Cool video!

I’m curious. How many records do you sell each day? I was doing some rough math and if I wanted to have a take home profit of around $5000 a month and say, I earn $5 a record minus the expenses. I’ll need to sell 1000 records a month, around 33 a day. Is that doable? I’ve sold on eBay in the past and I don’t think I’ve gotten that many sales a day. I just need some encouragement to know it’s possible. Would love to have a thriving and profitable record store one day.

Very cool I LOVE IT

Record co'ecting in the Da'as area.

Loved this video. Billy from Scotland

didn't see a 80's alternative or punk rock section!amazing room!

Is first pressing of Pink Floyd's 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' (1967)distributed in Canada on Capital Records and Very good plus condition still of interest? I bought a 1000 record collection from a lady who's step dad was 89 about 10 yrs back and had recently passed.

Personally i think Bam Bam- House demo 1984 started the grunge scene.

For me musically, i was too young in 1991. In 1994, i was 11 and pop punk had just broken through sort of how Nirvana did with grunge in 1991. Only now i was old enough to be more aware and into music. So i bought my first cd called Dookie by Green Day. Still to this day, one of my overall favorite albums. But do not fret. Now at age 41, i have some cds of grunge bands/albums, ones even you have never heard of that definitely compete with the likes of: core, nevermind, dirt, superunknown and ten.

Great video!

Another great show!! Will be sending my listening room pics

Alot of great set ups!! Great show!

You guys as stores and as people who can pay alot for stuff and like yeah if I want it I get it kinda stuff ofc its losin the thrill kinda deal. If you make it a job well it becomes a job. I see this type stuff alot on youtube and other places, where the big channels buy everything that's gettin released / wanted / desirable to make video to make money keep the channel spinning, everything from vinyl to comics to hot toys / sideshow etc etc. I hope i'm makin' sense english's not my mother tongue.

Great video. Love your set up! What pre amp do you have?

Vinyl is what records are made of you numpty! Why would anyone take a fool who does not know that seriously

The problem is so many people are searching everywhere for records to sell on Discogs or Ebay that regular collectors rarely find anything in the wild anymore. Frustrated they just order new stuff from Amazon knowing they will rarely find a great deal because Discogs ect.. stuff costs top dollar. The fun of searching is gone so we might as well just buy new stuff. Regular collectors just want to listen to music and not end up in the poor house to do it. Too much greed will ruin anything.

Recently decided to give Dicogs a try. My first purchase was a bit over-graded. I had 8 great transactions in a row then a $200 rip off (way over-graded). These were all sellers with 100% feedback. A 20% failure rate is terrible. I won't buy from there again. I need to see what I'm buying at the record store. I feel bad for the honest sellers.

Thank you for this video series! Do you have recommendations on inventory software? What are you using here, aside from Discogs to catalog your inventory? And actually it looks like you only add it to Discogs if you plan on selling there, is that correct?

I have been lucky enough to meet a lot of the greats from the 1950s and 60s. I have signed albums and 45s. These include CARL PERKINS , RUTH BROWN, LA VERN BAKER, DON & DEWEY, THE 5 KEYS ,BO DIDDLEY & many more by less well known artists from the 1950s and 60s. I collect mainly RnB, Soul and Rockabilly.

I think that Hi-Fi good equipment its so expensive nowadays

Hey man, nice video. But off topic question, are you not located in the Painted Tree’s any more? I been out of town for work and went down to pickup some new tunes and there was no NTX.

if this is the equivalent of the Comic book crash. that crash took about half the LCS's that were in buisness before the crash and closed them down. So if the record stores that have youtubes are seeing collection dumping of at least a thousand records. the question then is did thay see collections of under a hundred spike first, then collections of a thousand later? Its just a question of how many customers are really exiting the market. if its just the 2020 early adopters with about a thousand records then this is probably just a buying slowdown. because if a relatively few in number but were regular and consistent buyers are exiting the market, thats sad but not close to catastrophic. now if thes thousand record collections are the result of the owner absorbing alot of small collections over the last year because every person that collector knows used them to get out of vinyl record collecting. and this leaves one final question. how "desperate to sell" did thies thousand record collection owners seem?

I have a small collection of records I’m fine with that I don’t have that much room in my apartment I even have a small cd 💿 collection I love ❤️ my records and cd 💿 collection

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I still find the odd gem at the used store. But it’s fewer now for sure. I still love them all.

I'm almost 58 and I grew up with Vinyl and cassette. I remembering going to a record store as a teenager at saturday morning and watch and listen to all the new releases. My friends did the same.I also worked after my school hours in a grocery store and a lot of money went into vinyl. The feeling that you bought a record with your own money was a great feeling. You got home and the first thing I did was putting the record on my Akai turntable and enjoying it. Then the CD came and I also bought a lot of them but I never bonded with the CD medium....A small disc with a small booklet with tiny pictures and letters. I also missed the smell of Vinyl and the nice big sleeves that were sometimes work of art. The imperfections in sound were someting I loved ! Older music doesn't sound right on CD. Nowadays with 180-200 gr Vinyl and the using of digital masters is sometimes nice but I still love that old sound and sometimes I miss that sound on remastered Vinyl. Going to a thrift store and searching for these hidden treasures for a good price is still a hobby of mine. For me the whole experience has a lot to do with a warm nostalgic feeling of the past. It's now getting colder in Holland so in the evening I clean my records ,dry them, play them, a good glass of wine, some candlelight, and it makes me very happy !

I own a shop. You're spot on. Especially about this being the first time in the history of vinyl sales that you now have multiple options to pay $0 (spotify, youtube, etc) instead of $40-$50 for an album. That point can't be overstated. One other frightening point as an owner is that during the entire vinyl resurgence we haven't seen a true recession. It's just a matter of time. Once we do you'll see Record Stores closing en masse. Every cycle comes to an end eventually. Hopefully we can squeeze a few more years out of this one.

If it’s rapid fire why is the video 30 mins long

i would use discogs… but the records i just got were made before the barcode was invented 😂😂 so thank you for this video!!!

Aaliyah One in a million Is my favorite R&B album in my opinion

No, stop comparing this to something that causes actual death on a daily basis for people it’s not funny or cute

one reason would be a deceased estate. The relatives don't want em & can't be bothered with them, so they'd dump the collection at a store - sell as a bulk lot.

Maybe you’d know the answer to this: do all the RATM - Battle of Los Angeles OG pressings come with the slip mat or would you see it on the outside of a sealed copy? On Discogs it says some copies come with an “extra slip mat”, so I’m confused. I’ve got a sealed copy I’d like to open but not if the vinyl is ruined.

Thank you so much for making these videos. Super helpful. Just wondering… can’t find part four. Did you take it down?

No Quarter is unreal.

Never bought an album from Amazon in my life and never will.

My wife talked me in to going to a yardsale one Saturday morning because the ad said they would have records. I didn't have very high expectations but found all kinds of promo imports by progressive artists like Kate Bush, Marillion and loads of stuff of which nobody but me knew who they were all for under $2 each, NM condition. Turns out the seller cleaned out a storage unit, sold stuff online, Beatles, Stones etc... but never bothered researching anything else.

Ironically the guy from Noble records has contributed to making record collecting less fun and has made used records way more expensive.

No one mentioned that you have to pay for shipping if you buy it from Amazon, thus increasing the price. If I have a Prime account, I don't, but I would have to pay for that, too. Obviously, you have to live within driving distance of your stores, but if you do, you are still the better deal.

Amazing video! considering opening a store in Germany :) Question: do you stock new vinyls that you think are music gems, you store them in your inventory (taking up space), with just the intention of selling them like in years, when they are not to find anymore and might get quite some value? All I mean is, do you bet on some bands and their music to sell their vinyls much later than the time you purchased their vinyls? Thanks a million!

It's a nice tutorial, but I don't understand how you can grade a record without putting it / being right under a lamp. There's a lot of things you can miss in daylight.

I don't do multiple copies (usually) of an album, but my exception to that is The Police "Synchronicity". I think I have four version of that album, including the gold/silver/bronze version that I'm very proud to own! Addiction? Yep!!!

That version of pushit … 🤌… simply sublime

Why don't you start your video by explaining what discogs is?