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I went out to the store yesterday and bought a turntable and my first vinyl! I just got some tried and true picks for starters - Houses of the Holy, Quadrophenia, London Calling, OK Computer, DSOTM, and The White Stripes' eponymous debut. Terribly cliche choices, I know, but I'm just trying to get some of the essential classics right now, and then branch out later.
Anyway, I haven't been able to listen to any of them yet, because the turntable has the red and white wires to go into the speakers, but my speakers don't have anywhere for those to go, just a headphone jack that's supposed to plug into any computer/iPod/CD player/etc. and play off that - but the turntable doesn't have a headphone slot. So basically, three jacks, zero holes. I need some sort of converter thingymabob, which I have been assured does exist. However, neither the folks at Radioshack nor Best Buy were able to help. And so the quest continues.... does anyone have a potential solution to my problem?
Post by pondo ROCKS on May 18, 2010 4:32:53 GMT -5
I have a pretty decent collection of vinyl and i have to say The Beatles White Album is probably one of my favorites to listen to on vinyl...along with Jethro Tull's AquaLung
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Post by stallion pt. 2 on May 19, 2010 23:32:55 GMT -5
I finally recieved my Lips DSOTM vinyl (& CD) today, after a month of being on backorder. Sounds fantastic on my speakers. Anyone know what the deal is with the clear pressing vs the seafoam green one? Is one more limited than the other?
Also just ordered Sea of Cowards and that Dex Romweber live record from 3rd man.
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
Post by stallion pt. 2 on Jun 7, 2010 22:36:26 GMT -5
Fuck a double post!
I finally got my records moved over and merged with my late father's collection. And I finally got my camera humming again just in time for Bonnaroo, so I took some snaps of the collection for practice.
It's split into 3 shelving units
This is most of the "main" collection: Rock/Blues/Soul/RnB/Hip-Hop (And my cat and dog who snuck into this one). These shelves house A thru W.
The top cube is the rest of the "main" collection (X-Z, or XTC, Neil Young And Zappa). Cubes 2 & 3 house soundtracks/Spoken/Comedy and my meagre jazz collections respectively.
The rest.....Country (The entire lower right cube), classical (box sets in the upper left and the center right space not in the cube), recent purchases not yet archived (the whole center-left space and the center right cube), plus random oddball stuff and unsorted duplicates, and the nice rock boxsets on display in the top center and left. And the 7"s and a few 10"s.
Still have to move over most of my 78s and a few old LPs with my Voice of Music console. I have yet to archive the whole thing but I estimate about 2000 titles in all.
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
2/5- Papadosio 3/3- MUSE 3/12- John Mayer 3/19- The Werks 3/31- Passion Pit 4/18- Ben Folds 4/20- Against Me! 6/10- Bonnaroo 6/30- Eric Clapton and Roger Daltrey
Post by itrainmonkeys on Jun 18, 2010 15:40:55 GMT -5
A monster has been born
Jeff Mills latest release, The Occurrence, is pressed on a hybrid CD. One side is just a normal CD, the other is a 5″ vinyl pressing which you can play on a turntable. How cool is that?
I don't know who Jeff Mills is but that is an interesting hybrid of vinyl and cd
Ahh, I was hoping to add who Jeff Mills is. "'The Bells' by Jeff Mills... that song's just so dope." - as quoted by Jesse Keeler from MSTRKRFT when asked what his favorite dance track was.
I'd definitely have to say that,
Minus the Bear - Acoustics Phoenix - Fences (National Record Store Day release w/ Fences Remix) Chemical Brothers - Brotherhood Broken Bells - Broken Bells Pink Floyd - DSotM Animal Collective - MPP Moody Blues w/ London Field Orchestra - Days of Future Passed Boys Noize - Oi Oi Oi
are my favorites out of the collection.
Tone Loc - Loc-ed After Dark and Major Lazer - Guns don't kill people... lazers do are some of my favorite to scratch, though.
Shpongle- Ineffable Mysteries....#136 of 270 that are commercially availabe The Mars Volta- Frances The Mute Squarepusher- Just A Souvenir Omar Rodriguiz Lopez- Solar gambling
Post by 3DeadStripes on Jun 29, 2010 16:18:17 GMT -5
I just have begun to get into vinyl. I am old enough to remember listening to my brothers and sisters vinyl but I started out buying cassettes (Purple Rain to be exact was the first purchase). Just made my first purchase yesterday on e-bay, The White Stripes "Electronics Got The Best Of Me" on mint green vinyl, I can't wait to hear it.
I paid thirty bucks for it. I have no idea if that is good or bad. Very noobish on the prices of vinyl as of now.
Post by 3DeadStripes on Jul 1, 2010 17:00:14 GMT -5
So I decided to pull the trigger on a platinum subscription at Third Man Record Vault yesterday and today they announced the package they are giving away to members for this quarter. It is a Black and Blue 12 inch LP of Sea of Cowards performed live and in order at Third Man Records, a 7 inch of the encore, and a DVD of the entire performance. All comes wrapped in mirror board jackets. Pretty sweet.
The Mars Volta- Amputechture Talking Heads- Stop Making Sense The Rockers Sountrack......peter tosh, bunny wailer, heptones, burning spear...you get the idea
I loaded up the other day, got Herbie Hancock's Imagine Project, Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid, Next Stop Soweto Vol. 3, What's Happenin Stateside (a comp of great soul hits from the Stateside label), Gato Barbieri - Chapter One: Latin America, and Hubert Laws - Morning Star (which may be the best of the bunch). All in all great stuff.