Yep and it's a good thing. Whatever allows you to have a relationship with art other than being a consumer on some app is a plus in my book.

For me, stoned is the only way to visit a museum, otherwise it gets tiring and alienating very quickly. Last time I went was to an exhibit on Picasso and African art and it ruled. Doesn't get better than staring at African masks when you're high.

yeah there is alooot of weird stuff thats only on vinyl that u cant even get on digtial or Cd

stuff like

Dance
Electronic/breakbeat
idustrail avent grade experiment stuff
old Latin and world music stuff
and deff alot of old 45's

I feel like a t rex would get better.

This may not come as a surprise, but by and large, most natural history museum employees don't really care much about exhibitions. They're more concerned with their own research and projects, etc.

At least this is what it's like at the natural history museum in Oslo.

Just in case you were interested in some light museum trivia.

vinyl memory of mine was buying jay-z's magna carta holy grail album and jamming to it, BUT But!, there was a secret hidden track grooved into a rectangle that needed to be cut out the back of it.
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My first experience with albums was my Dad's GTO, which had a turntable in the glove compartment. lol Terrible idea.

For my first album that I bought with my own money, I believe it was Boston, and then Seger Live Bullet in the 70's shortly after that. Right around that time it seemed that 8-Tracks were becoming more popular but albums still remained my preferred medium because they didn't skip tracks in the middle of the tunes. I had every Black Sabbath album up to Mob Rules, quite a few Rush albums, and lots of random ones. For Rush, even though I'd heard 2112 a few years earlier, I borrowed 'Archives' from a friend and I don't think they ever got it back. I grabbed up all of their albums up to their latest after that. My brother was a huge BÖC fan and would play Agents of Fortune or Mirrors everyday before school. We grew up listening to all the K-Tel pop tunes and some real out-there stuff like Spike Jones and some rare gems like Jan and Dean Meet Batman.

Then we got a Turn Table/8-Track/AM-FM Tuner combo unit that would also record to blank 8-Tracks from any of the sources. That was my introduction to mix-tapes, but that's also when I discovered Iron Maiden. I first saw a Killers 8-Track and the cover instantly drew me in, since I was drawing skulls and dragons around that time. I bought it and was blown away and off to the races. I think my brother still has that contraption too, but I doubt it works. I tore that thing apart many times trying to connect more speakers and just messing around with the electronics. Thats also the same 8-Track player I tried shoving my guitar into. Drugs are bad, nkay.

If you have something to say just say it.

Ok then. It. :p:

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I had 'it' all typed out and ready to go, but I didn't wanna steal your thunder, Thunder Cat.

I'm nothing if not predictable.

Predictable for comedy gold!

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False metal!

Some brilliant memories for me
1986 (Spring) - Getting the Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy (Reprise US release) and blasting it through my headphones knowing I'd get some flack from the parents over the feedbacks and SCREEEEEEEEEE.

1986 (Spring to Summer) - Going to Special Records (don't know when it closed...) and buying the following discs:
Julian Cope - Sunshine Playroom (12 Inch) - the manic-psych B sides!
The Associates - Q Quarters (12 Inch)
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs/Barrett
The Cramps - A Date with Elvis
The Creatures - Mad Eyed Screamer (7 Inch)
Possibly - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Paint Your Wagon

1986 (Winter/Dec. possibly) - Going to a soon to close used album store and getting Scott Walker's first solo album titled Aloner in The US. A played but still playable disc with a small cut out "bullet" hole on the cover, this was at the time when he was still in the "Who's he?" files Stateside and just starting to get that cult status in The UK thanks to the Julian Cope-assembled Fire Escape in the Sky collection. To say that I was alone in my love of the album among my set of friends is to be factual about my memories. Have the CD today.

1987 (Spring) - Going to an Indie store in Toledo and being introduced to Psychic TV's Dreams Less Sweet. The clerk knew I was fully interested and actually previewed a couple of tracks for me which led to a sale (I was seriously into experimental sound discovery after being burned out from The Pop 80's). This was the first edition double platter with the Bonus Disc that I bought and introduced to a friend who was not as convinced. LP no longer in the collection due to moving to my apartment and getting some $$$ to help me for a couple of months through selling some good used discs, but again I have the CD to keep me company.

1987 (possibly Spring) - Going to a Salvation Army and getting Love's debut and Forever Changes on the same day! 50 cents each!!!

A great one - 1987-Around Fall - Borrowed Joy Division's "She's Lost Control/Atmosphere" 12 inch from an acquaintance and jaw-droppingly was allowed to keep it when I returned it at his house. I still have it - I'm sure will always keep it - it might have been a sign or something like that.

That reminds me of one of my greatest finds. I found a copy of the Velvet Underground and Nico at a Salvation Army around 1980. Had the banana peel intact on the cover too.

Second hand shops used to be a great way to fill in gaps in your collection, or buy new music. There was one called Freebird (originally accessed via a winding staircase up, where local lads would slouch against the wall and ask for money, then later they relocated, ironically, to a basement, so you still had to use stairs, but this time down. No seekers after loose change though, as it was in a better part of town). Basement X was another one, a real basement, so dark you felt like you were going into like Santa's Grotto or something (hey I was young and didn't have that many references for dark places) - quite intimidating but also friendly. Best part about those shops was you could browse literally for hours and nobody would bother you with "can I help you", translation: "buy something or get the **** out, this isn't a library."

Also cool that they would, if you asked and they were in a good mood, preview a record for you, play it on their system, and even if you didn't like it and decided not to buy it, you got no hassle. I miss those shops. You could go in with about twenty quid and come back out with zero cash but a bag of maybe forty to fifty records. Sweet. And of course later if you needed money you could sell yours to them. They were a lot more picky about that though, and you got next to nothing for them, so it wasn't a road I went down much at all.

love memories like that..lucky that we have the Animal Charity called the Hope Association, they display some goods for sale even on facebook .. more like a warehouse than a store...great stuff if you can spare the time to rake about in there..husband will not enter it..being from a poorish background, always cast off's with everything, he just wants all new gear...I get that, but am not with that mindset. Not too fussed about some dirt and wear and tear, all can be cleaned and cared for again... Lets face it..the bargains are the bait,,,

I pretty much stopped second hand bargain bin hunting. You do it for years, you of course know which records are interesting or collectors items, even from artists you don't care much for. So does every other schmuck, so the bargain bins are cleaned out of good/interesting stuff and more so now than years back before LPs really got into their resurgence.

On occasion, I pick at LPs for a few seconds before I remember I've long ago tired of sifting through trash.

Second hand record bins are trash collectors. Good picks disappear in an instant while the junk accumulates.

Of course record store owners also know what is interesting and what is not. Therefore, you're never going to find some rare gem in the bargain bin to begin with.

Most of the second hand LP bins around town here are not in record stores, but in general second hand shops where you might find furniture, clothes, etc. Of course, owners might still be very LP savvy.

That's a neat assessment, Guybrush. You should've told me that 45 years ago, and cured me earlier of something I soon came to realize was a bad habit.

Interesting description of your second-hand record shops, TH.
The one in London that I most visited had a ground floor of popular/recent albums in good condition, then at the back, a tight staircase executed a U-turn into a poorly lit basement. There, the same layout, same categories as above, but this was like the "Stranger Things" other world side; no daylight, a basement smell like you're breathing in TB germs and when I saw the crumbly walls, an instinctive urge to touch as little as possible. I once stayed there long enough to get Neil Young's Decade anthology for the price of a pint, and was well pleased - partly with the 3-disc bargain, partly with relief to be back out in the sunny London street.

And that purchase reminds me that "lo-hi" existed for years before it became a style. It used to be the (musical) love that dare not speak its name: cheapskates playing scratched records on poor equipment.

They're usually well-loved and even a bit scratched, but I'm finding gems in the bargain bin all day. Plus, most spots don't have a designated classical or yodeling compilation section and you're forced to dig to see if they have it at all.

Agreed that thrift stores have a pretty weak selection though.

Found this cursed sample factory in a dollar bin:

And, I assume, dropped it right back in? :D

More like right into my collection

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Why in the hell would.... never mind. I think we live in separate worlds.

Peak cringe is art.

No, peak cringe is just peak cringe. That kind of attitude is what got Nickelback where they are today.

Nobody buys Nickelback records ironically though. They're just peak unbuttered toast.

We should have a competition thread: Frownland chooses an album, and we see who can endure it longest.

For this one, I could only manage one of it's 37 minutes :(

Apparently the blue book on the cover is named "Psalty".

That's one more than I could manage!

I cringed just at the thought of what it might be, so zero time units for me.

Thought it was the actual Butterfly song....doh doh....
know your hanging on a cliff here....on the edge stuff..

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Muppets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

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God-damn it! In the name of Kermit! "Video not available"!!! :mad:

It was a French one.....just use your imagination instead.:wavey: