Which of these is the world's worst album cover? Think there is something worse?
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My full collection.

I am a huge Carpenter fan and found this today still in shrink, so I opened it! Really satisfying cracking a 40-year old time capsule. Everything is pristine and smells like magic. Included is the super cool Enigma Records promotional insert with some rad stuff to mail order like an Agent Orange skateboard, a Goblin/Argento soundtrack, mfin TSOL. Record sounds great.

12" gatefold. 1971 Warner Brothers. Need a better copy.

Feeling mellow tonight with Mazzy Star- isn’t this purple smoke pressing gorgeous!

Everyone knows Fade Into You (and rightfully so, it’s a beautiful song) but this album has plenty of other treasures too 💜

Absolutely stoked to find these 4 yesterday. I’m super familiar with the material previously but having it on vinyl is really exciting. I forgot to remove the 45s. They’re from another day back in August.

It came today! I was a little worried how it would arrive since it was 100 degrees and sitting in a mail truck all day. No damage and it sounds great!

(And YMO of course)

Finally got into collecting vinyl again after getting my setup shipped to me from back home. Been a wonderful year of rediscovering old favorites and grabbing new releases. Definitely a big focus on hip hop/rap but I've been enjoying how wonderful all the types of electronic music sounds on wax! Standouts in no particular order:

- Ninajirachi: I Love My Computer

- Clipse: Let God Sort Em' Out

- Pinkpantheress: Fancy That

- Isaiah Rashad: It's Been Awful

- Slayyyter: Worst Girl in America

The Downliners Sect. Nobody really remembers them but they were playing ruff-edged RnB and blues, verging on garage punk, back in the early 60s. Contemporaries of the Stones, Pretty Things etc.

I used to work in a record shop and one day this bloke came in with a box of battered old records. I could see these were great records once upon a time but they were carved up.

This bloke told me my boss had said he'd give him £50 for them. Now - one thing my boss told me when I started working for him was "never listen to them. Never, ever listen to them!! If even my old mum comes in here - don't listen to her".

On the other hand, there was some once-good records in here - so I gave him the £50.

The next day my boss went mental: "What did I tell you!!!". He screamed and shouted some more while I mumbled some abject apology. To make it up to him I bought the Downliners Sect album off him for £20. The corners have been eaten by mice but the record plays good, at VG- I would say. It's a 1964 album on Columbia.

Several months later I came into work and the boss said "remember that crap box of records you bought and I gave you a hard time". I said "how could I forget!!". He said - "well, there's a Beatles album in there worth £600".

The work experience kid had been reading an old Record Collector magazine and seen an article on the Beatles Hottest Hits compilation on Danish Parlophone with the 'Eskimo' sleeve that was withdrawn and replaced with another sleeve very quickly. Super rare.

He sold the record (which was in G condition I would say) to another dealer for £450, gave me my £20 back and everyone was happy.

Well, nearly everyone, that bloke the thought he'd done me for £50 would be angry if he knew.

I just recently got a stash (~150) of vinyl from 1960-1985 gifted with a wild taste trough everything in that time and I found one 12“ and a 7“ colored vinyl in the stash. First time seeing one in that time frame. I got the feeling these days they are way more common then back then ?

Both are not that „valuable“ but I’m curious as a beginner and owner of a few more recent colorful records.

This record is incredible!
If you’re at all into Brazilian music or Jazz get it. This is a recent remaster released by Universal and it absolutely outstanding.

Harvest Heritage double-LP reissue of The Pretty Things’ S.F. Sorrow and Parachute.

Found this today for $30 … a bargain for these 2 albums.

The pressings are amazing.

Highly recommend if you come across it!

Nitrous - Complications b/w Scratch My Back

Anyone got a match? This is the type of record you smoke cigarettes and drink coffee to on your dilapidated wooden porch. I picture the members of this band constantly taking flying lessons in little Cessna’s, when they aren’t writing songs. 30+ years later I still have incindiary promotional materials from this band.

Bought 2 copies first pressing. One opened, the other still factory sealed

Picked up a few new records recently! Especially happy to finally get A Beautiful Day to Die by Vel Nine after missing out on the original release. I also discovered Sweet Tooth by Mali Obomsawin here on Reddit, gave it a listen and immediately ordered the vinyl. Always love finding new music this way! The rest are albums I’ve wanted to own for a while and finally managed to grab for a good price. Looking forward to spending some time with these over the next few days!

The screaming vocals of Roky Erickson always get me into the Halloween season. So many great tracks on this one. It was such a loss to lose such a unique and creative mind. Roky, The Cramps and lately Type O Negative as well all gone far too soon. What are you playing for the Halloween season.

MF DOOM- Born Like This

Picked up at the show in Baltimore last night.

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