Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: Music: The Vinyl Frontier https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271306#post271306 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271306#post271306 I can imagine turning up at RA and saying “Hi, My name is Brian and I have not bought a record for 30 mins”

And let me guess: you just can't get a buzz off that digital stuff.

]]> Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:16:13 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271305#post271305 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271305#post271305 But you can pry my copies of A Forest and Cult Hero, signed by Porl and Simon, from my cold dead hands.I get the A Forest love. Totally. ]]> Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:40:19 +1300 Jonathan Ganley https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271205#post271205 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271205#post271205 Most doctors agree: reggae and vinyl go together … like this track goes hand in hand with the sunny day outside … the dub version is good too. (Photo above: Cheers DJ Dubhead!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B75-VUbDfA4
http://holliecook.com/

]]> Sun, 30 Sept 2012 12:16:21 +1300 tfcbrian https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271170#post271170 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271170#post271170 Sat, 29 Sept 2012 09:56:21 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271161#post271161 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271161#post271161 More pr0n. ;-)

For as much fun as I have had collecting (and playing) some of this stuff giving it away is a lot of fun too.

Thanks 81st, and absolutely agree. I gave my whole New Order collection to my bro, which included the Murder 12", the 7" of…

]]> Sat, 29 Sept 2012 08:03:53 +1200 81stcolumn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271158#post271158 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271158#post271158 But the beauty of it all is naively never letting go of the things you like and discovering that other people loved them just as much.

An A2 pressing of FAC 73.



For as much fun as I have had collecting (and playing) some of this stuff giving it away…

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 23:35:28 +1200 81stcolumn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271157#post271157 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271157#post271157 Oooooh disc porn!

Just for you JacksonP

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 23:26:18 +1200 Carol Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271155#post271155 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271155#post271155 Sound It Out. It's a lovely portrait of the (UK) North-East's last independent record shop and the characters who frequent it. Some of you might recognise yourselves. It hasn't had an NZ screening yet, but you can rent or buy it from the… ]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 22:01:45 +1200 ChrisW https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271147#post271147 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271147#post271147 but I'm jamming with a drummer called Tim Player
You could discuss the connections between music collecting and books with him – he had a good second-hand bookshop in Gisborne for a few years, pity it and he's moved on.

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 20:05:07 +1200 George Darroch https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271145#post271145 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271145#post271145 Fri, 28 Sept 2012 19:05:54 +1200 George Darroch https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271143#post271143 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271143#post271143 Fri, 28 Sept 2012 18:53:43 +1200 Andrew Geddis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271126#post271126 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271126#post271126 @Alan: "oops, sorry about that, I just get tired of such comments. taste is a personal thing."

This springs to mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRsemHatx-o

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 16:09:25 +1200 Alan Perrott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271117#post271117 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271117#post271117 Fri, 28 Sept 2012 13:55:08 +1200 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271114#post271114 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271114#post271114 anyway, smug wasn’t what I was being.

No, you weren't. That was in response to my post about the whole "hobbyist expertise" thing, and I appreciated it, because I really hate musical dick-waving and judgeypantsness too. My favourite thing about music nerds is enthusiasm, not jaded oneupmanship.

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 13:40:53 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271111#post271111 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271111#post271111 A couple of years ago a singer-guitarist from a significant FN band told me he'd rather people just illegally download his band's EPs, rather than bankrupt themselves by splashing out three-figure sums on Trade Me, etc

And nowadays it isn't that expensive to get one-off direct-cut disks, like [[http://www.vinylcarvers.com/product.html|these guys…

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 13:21:00 +1200 Alan Perrott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271110#post271110 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271110#post271110 Fri, 28 Sept 2012 13:19:43 +1200 Andrew Geddis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271109#post271109 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271109#post271109 @Alan: "It's music, not a cure for cancer, and I say that as an, umm, enthusiast."

Perhaps, then, you should spend your time reading medical journals rather than blog posts in which people with similar individual quirks self-depreciatingly share in-jokes? That might help lower your general sense of smug righteousness.

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 13:13:17 +1200 Alan Perrott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271101#post271101 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271101#post271101 ha, punk still lives.

sounds like good times. oh, them were the days.

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 12:11:29 +1200 Grant McDougall https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271099#post271099 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271099#post271099 Not yet, but I'm jamming with a drummer called Tim Player; his main band, Opposite Sex, have been getting rave reviews in Q, Uncut, etc, for their album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uApduhgVo5k

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 12:04:32 +1200 Alan Perrott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271095#post271095 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271095#post271095 we? you've got a band together?

got a name yet?

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 11:56:32 +1200 Grant McDougall https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271094#post271094 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271094#post271094 Share the love – besides nothing beats making your own sounds anyway. Given your years of listening to great sounds I'm sure some has rubbed off – any links?

Not yet, but when we've got a full set together and doen a few gigs I expect there'll be a few…

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 11:52:47 +1200 Grant McDougall https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271093#post271093 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271093#post271093 It fascinates me now to see what old Flying Nun platters are going for at RG. I wonder who’s buying them at $100+?

I can't speak for RG, but for the same items on Trade Me I am reliably informed that a prominent, frequent buyer is a very rich professional…

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 11:49:26 +1200 Grant McDougall https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271092#post271092 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271092#post271092 I hope to God that this came out of the 1/3rd of albums you've got on CD as well ... or else you, sir, may be a geek, but you are no music geek.

Rest assured, I do have it on CD, the recentish 2CD version in fact !

Like…

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 11:43:45 +1200 Grant McDougall https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271091#post271091 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271091#post271091 Hey Grant; marathons? Really? I mean, really really?

Yep, marathons. I've done seven since 1998 and several half-marathons as well. My best time is 3hr 8mins, nothing amazing, but certainly respectable.

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 11:38:49 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271089#post271089 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271089#post271089 Hello, I am short and round and a girl and yes, *I know a lot about this shit*.

More than most 'boys' I know about music, and more than anyone about shoes and handbags. We have a lot to learn. ;-)

I've cleaned out my vinyl twice due to relocations,…

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 10:52:39 +1200 Alan Perrott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271088#post271088 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271088#post271088 re the 'gendered “expertise” hobbyist barrier,' I have no time for blokes who treat music as a pissing competition; even the offhand comment made above about selling Galaxie 500 ground my gears.
It's music, not a cure for cancer, and I say that as an, umm, enthusiast.

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 10:51:53 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271087#post271087 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271087#post271087 Fri, 28 Sept 2012 10:36:26 +1200 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271085#post271085 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271085#post271085

I assume it’s genetic: guys go for music crap, women go for shoes / dresses / handbags and the like.

I collect shoes, handbags, and music. The key difference between the shoes/handbags and the music is that the latter is basically incorporeal and what I value about it is almost…

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 10:12:21 +1200 Martin Lindberg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271084#post271084 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271084#post271084 I have lotsnlotsnlots of bookshelves & 27000 plus – books.

I never thought I could bear to part with any of them but -now- I'm looking

I'm certainly not in the same league as you, but I still probably have 1000-odd books. But after my recent move, which was the 8th…

]]> Fri, 28 Sept 2012 10:10:45 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271071#post271071 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271071#post271071 Fri, 28 Sept 2012 01:08:55 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271055#post271055 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271055#post271055 As my Big O home is on the market (no agents thank you, and it's all low-key) I've been looking at my bookshelves...
I have lotsnlotsnlots of bookshelves & 27000 plus – books.

I never thought I could bear to part with any of them but -now- I'm looking...

]]> Thu, 27 Sept 2012 20:33:44 +1200 Crunchy Weta https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271053#post271053 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271053#post271053 Thu, 27 Sept 2012 20:06:14 +1200 andrew r https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271051#post271051 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271051#post271051 Nice.
I like how Chris H pointed out best Bunnyman and Buzzcocks records.
Still buying the odd bit a vinyl mee self

but gee there is just sooooo
much pop out there these days. Spotify is helping me sift through some
of it.

]]> Thu, 27 Sept 2012 19:18:39 +1200 bob daktari https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271025#post271025 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271025#post271025 discogs.com > tardme

create account
make excel spreadsheet of ya wares
upload
sell to music geeks globally
visit your local postshop to dispatch
make foreign friends
travel the globe sleeping on their couches with the proceeds

/personally I've never sold anything musicy and as yet have no inclination....

]]> Thu, 27 Sept 2012 13:55:41 +1200 Andrew Geddis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271023#post271023 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271023#post271023 "The other friend, Tim, was as pleased as Sylvie was at seeing the British indie stuff when he saw Galaxie 500’s On Fire album, which again reiterated to me the importance of them going to a good home."

I hope to God that this came out of the 1/3rd of…

]]> Thu, 27 Sept 2012 13:52:18 +1200 81stcolumn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271019#post271019 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271019#post271019 Thu, 27 Sept 2012 13:29:44 +1200 Alan Perrott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271017#post271017 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271017#post271017 Thu, 27 Sept 2012 13:14:58 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271016#post271016 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271016#post271016 umm, Ian, you'd probably have to check Russell's cool with it, but how about listing the titles here taking any inquires via email?

Of course!

]]> Thu, 27 Sept 2012 13:08:26 +1200 Alan Perrott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271015#post271015 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271015#post271015 umm, Ian, you'd probably have to check Russell's cool with it, but how about listing the titles here taking any inquires via email?
there seems to be a few record hounds about.

and not that I've used it, but yeah, eBay is where you'll find the real anoraks with the…

]]> Thu, 27 Sept 2012 13:00:29 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271013#post271013 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271013#post271013 Mother Superior jump the gun...
...to see what old Flying Nun
platters are going for at RG.
I wonder who’s buying them at $100+?
Me too, I am about to free up some old kiwi vinyl (and ephemera) for the universe to reabsorb, some folks say one gets better prices…

]]> Thu, 27 Sept 2012 12:29:17 +1200 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271010#post271010 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271010#post271010 This is a very encouraging story. Time to stop gazing thoughtfully at the shelf, and start off-loading. If only
I couldn’t be stuffed with the hassle of putting listing after listing on Trade Me
did not ring so loud and clear!

]]> Thu, 27 Sept 2012 12:10:51 +1200 Dave Patrick https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271009#post271009 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271009#post271009 Thu, 27 Sept 2012 12:10:28 +1200 Grant Smithies https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271004#post271004 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271004#post271004 Thu, 27 Sept 2012 11:49:55 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271002#post271002 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=271002#post271002 Offloading vinyl got us across the line – just – when we were buying our house in 1998.

David Rush, the buyer at Real Groovy (who I knew) gave me pretty good prices. It helped that more than 10 years earlier in London I’d saved a bunch of collectible stuff…

]]> Thu, 27 Sept 2012 11:44:28 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=270998#post270998 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=270998#post270998 in the groove...
Incidentally, apart from music my other main interest is long-distance running.
once a Long Player,
always a long player...
:- )

]]> Thu, 27 Sept 2012 11:35:18 +1200 Alan Perrott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=270989#post270989 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=270989#post270989 Hey Grant; marathons? Really? I mean, really really?

and I’ve been going through a similar sort of thing. due to space constants, utility and such, I’m now keeping my stash down to about 5000.
I’ve never used a filing system – that way you keep digging up something you haven’t…

]]> Thu, 27 Sept 2012 10:33:38 +1200 Richard Llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=270987#post270987 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=270987#post270987 Love it. Our relationships to the 'stuff' that documents the years, that I've naively assumed would always hold the same meaning for our entire life, does, in fact, (to my enormous surprise) change.

If I'd known then that, after decades of lugging years worth of Face, Empire, and NME magazines…

]]> Thu, 27 Sept 2012 09:56:06 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=270986#post270986 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-music-the-vinyl-frontier/?p=270986#post270986 Discussion from blog post.

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