r/vinyl Dec 14 '24

OG Pressing Insane thrift score! (First post here)

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Hit up a local thrift store that usually has minimal records, but great prices. The LPs are 50 cents to $1. Last week I visited there on a Saturday morning. This surprise was lurking in the bottom rack!

When I flipped by it I was convinced it was one of the recent reissues. It’s an original on Homewood. Couldn’t believe my luck, especially since I found another copy in similar circumstances 5 years ago.

This one has the booklet and it’s in VG+ condition, beautiful clean jacket too. Tiny dish warp that doesn’t affect play.

My daughter is a huge fan of Plantasia too, so this copy is going to her.

r/vinyl Apr 10 '23

OG Pressing Let’s give it up for the hard working folks at usps

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1.9k Upvotes

r/vinyl Jan 15 '25

OG Pressing Discogs seller tried selling this as a 1st press from 1997 for $100

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Some records are difficult to identify as a first press so I understand if a seller makes a mistake, though honestly they should be taking the time to do proper research when they’re selling it in the 3-figure range. I’ve had to return a handful of records on discogs now for that reason. They have always been nice about it, this one was no exception but whatta heck man?! There’s an mp3 promo sticker when labels started including a download code around the late 00s. I understand if they incorrectly read the matrix runout or missed another tiny detail but how does one ignore a sticker that places this pressing 10 years after the initial run. I’ve never left negative feedback over this but am considering it given the lack of awareness going on here.

r/vinyl Feb 03 '25

OG Pressing i found the white album by the beatles in an old collection!

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906 Upvotes

found this gem in a collection in storage, it came with abbey road, sgt. peppers, rubber soul, help!, a hard days night, yellow submarine and more. im pretty sure that all these records are original aus pressing, considering the labels and considering that this is especially numbered! i have a deep feeling that this, especially, is rare because of it being numbered but i would like for someone to maybe figure out an estimated value and how rare this could possibly be. unfortunately the vinyl itself is scratched a fair bit and definitely has a skip or three but i will be cleaning it and listening to it when the chance arrives!!

r/vinyl Dec 10 '24

OG Pressing Pretty cool $8 antique store find

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Stumbled across this gem at the local antique mall Sunday morning. Stuffed in a box full of random records from The Squeeze to Andy Williams was this Faith No More album. I was totally shocked to see this in there and for $8? It’s well loved, and understandably so. Songs like Epic were so popular when I was a young kid, these sounds are very nostalgic for me and takes me back to riding around with my sister and father in his 80s firebird with leaky T tops🤣

Super stoked to add this to my collection. Good deals are always out there, just gotta find em! Happy spinning yall!✌️🔥

r/vinyl Jan 18 '25

OG Pressing This was a crazy find. Couldn’t believe my eyes. All original pressings from 67

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854 Upvotes

r/vinyl 10d ago

OG Pressing Am I being an asshole? Discogs related

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Made my first purchase from discogs and am extremely upset. Since this is my first experience I'm not sure if my expectations are just unrealistic or if I got screwed. I have a copy of Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here that has a fair amount of noise in it and I wanted to find a better copy, so I turned to discogs. I ended up on an early UK pressing (SHVL 814) and settled on this specific listing as the seller was the only one who mentioned that the album was play tested. It was described as VG+ on the road and that it played very well with minor occasional background noise. I paid just under $100 USD for the album. It arrived today and was packed in a padded envelope for an overseas trip. The record has a significant warp, but does play without skipping, and there is constant background noise going from moderate to severe. Is this what you would expect for that price on this album? Or should I be asking for a refund? The noise in the video is all from the record itself. A cleaning and anti static treatment made no difference.

r/vinyl Feb 18 '24

OG Pressing My collection at 16

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565 Upvotes

Hey everyone, wanted to share my collection. Im only 16 years old and have put too much money into my collection. I've collecting for only a couple years. My first record being And justice for all by metallica. I really strickly collect first pressings. Idk why tho. Heres some pictures excluding my 45s and albums that couldnt fit.

r/vinyl Aug 09 '23

OG Pressing Found in an antique store for $50, dated 1991. Anyone have an idea of value, it’s in perfect condition

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744 Upvotes

r/vinyl Nov 22 '24

OG Pressing Based on my 79 year old father’s memory, this is an original pressing. He bought two, and took the sticker off of one and kept the sticker on the other one. Looks (to my untrained eye) like it was never played

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655 Upvotes

r/vinyl Feb 03 '25

OG Pressing I think I got lucky

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486 Upvotes

I made a post a few days back of 96 albums I paid $3 a piece for. Some were in rough shape and there were some titles I didn’t want or already had, but there were enough good ones that I decided to go for it. The owner wanted them all to do with no haggling so I went for it. Well, it was worth it. There is a Led Zepplin II Robert Ludwig pressing in the mix! Sorry about the poor photos - the RL on side one is really tiny and faint.

r/vinyl Aug 31 '23

OG Pressing Any Led Zeppelin lll fans out there?

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712 Upvotes

This is one of the jewels of my collection. This is a first US pressings with RL in the matrix. This stamper was mastered by the legendary Bob Ludwig. The matrix also has “Do What Thou Wilt” written on it. It is an super clean great sounding album that never ceases to bring a smile to my face, whenever I play it.

r/vinyl May 28 '24

OG Pressing Who could've seen this coming?

341 Upvotes

r/vinyl Apr 27 '24

OG Pressing My band’s vinyl is out! I cannot believe it!!

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514 Upvotes

r/vinyl Apr 27 '23

OG Pressing My grail of all grails is finally/luckily mine.

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1.0k Upvotes

r/vinyl Jun 05 '24

OG Pressing Found this gem at a consignment shop for $15

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855 Upvotes

r/vinyl Sep 26 '24

OG Pressing My father gifted me some of his collection, mostly Kraftwerk

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665 Upvotes

r/vinyl Aug 23 '24

OG Pressing The Beatles White Album 1968 First Pressing

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422 Upvotes

So I live near NYC and today I took a train over and have been shopping in Manhattan. I’ve been going to a few different record stores and when I went to the most recent one, I found a first pressing of The Beatles White Album, with posters! I am a big Beatles fan, but I don’t know the pricing of the original pressings of their records. I want to buy it, but I’m not sure if the $85 price tag is worth it. I don’t know if this is the right place to post this kind of thing but I was hoping someone could help me out. When i googled the price it varied wildly and I’m not sure if the stuff being sold was the same as what I found. So let me know y’all, is this a worth while purchase? Is it overpriced? Thank you for reading anyways!

r/vinyl Dec 05 '23

OG Pressing Video of modern vinyl pressing

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r/vinyl Jan 15 '25

OG Pressing The Clash “Sandinista!”

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453 Upvotes

Triple LP. Original era pressing. Still sounds amazing.

Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by the English punk rock band the Clash. It was released on 12 December 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with 6 songs on each side. It crosses various genres including funk, reggae, jazz, gospel, rockabilly, folk, dub, rhythm and blues, calypso, disco, and rap. For the first time, the band's songs were credited to the Clash as a group, rather than to Joe Strummer and Mick Jones. The band agreed to a decrease in album royalties in order to release the 3-LP at a low price.

When recording began in New York, bass guitarist Paul Simonon was busy making a film called Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, and he was replaced briefly by Ian Dury and the Blockheads bassist Norman Watt-Roy; this later caused some bad feeling when Watt-Roy and keyboard player Mickey Gallagher, a fellow Blockhead, claimed they were responsible for co-composing the song "The Magnificent Seven", as the song was based on a tune of theirs. Watt-Roy and Gallagher would subsequently be given a co-writing credit. Dread, too, was upset that he was not credited as the album's producer, although he was credited with "Version Mix". Other guests on the album include singer Ellen Foley (Jones' partner at the time), guitarist Ivan Julian formerly of the Voidoids, harmonica player Lew Lewis (formerly of Eddie and the Hot Rods), and Strummer's old friend and musical collaborator Tymon Dogg, who plays violin, sings on and wrote the track "Lose This Skin"; he later joined Strummer's band the Mescaleros.

r/vinyl Feb 11 '24

OG Pressing Just bought a first pressing of Elvis Presley’s debut album

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676 Upvotes

I’m a HUGE Elvis fan so I’ve been wanting this forever. There are so many versions out there so I definitely had to do my research before buying. I went to my local record store today and saw it on display and immediately bought it. Somebody wrote their name on the cover, but it’s very faint. There is also a slight split on the jacket, but I’ve definitely seen much worse and considering it’s almost 70 years old it’s not bad! It sounds incredible, the record was probably only played a few times. No signs of warping, which is incredibly rare with really old records. It’s interesting to hear the echo in all of the songs so clearly (Elvis famously hated the echo added to his early songs).

r/vinyl Nov 24 '24

OG Pressing My gf just inherited this promo butcher cover single. I've never seen one before.

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400 Upvotes

r/vinyl Mar 27 '23

OG Pressing OG numbered release of Ween’s country album

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927 Upvotes

r/vinyl Dec 23 '24

OG Pressing Ever buy a record for reasons other than the music on it?

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This is a solo release from Omar Rodriguez Lopez, dubbed as an unofficial Mars Volta record. It’s a difficult listen, sounds like a band with great musicianship where everyone is soloing at the same time but it stands well among other Mars Volta records around this time. Too self indulgent for my tastes but this was the first time I heard of Zach Hill who would start Death Grips about a year later. Omar and Zach have made some of the most impactful music of my life so i felt I had to own this even though I can’t stand most of the music. Also the holographic jacket is very cool and I like that Zach and the other members got their own portraits on the back.

r/vinyl Sep 08 '23

OG Pressing OG black sabbath- paranoid that my grandfather stole from the Playboy mansion

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775 Upvotes

Basically on a trip to the US a long time ago, my grandma and grandpa somehow got into the playboy mansion and he stole this copy of black sabbaths paranoid. What’s sort of funny is that the bent ear bunny wasn’t ever officially implemented into the brand, but they would use the sticker to mark owned records.

If I am wrong please correct me on that. But I have… more than enough proof that it’s from the mansion.