Vinyl Records

Roomic Cube

anyone know any decent shops round dublin? that sells rock sorta stuff, along with new stuff

like is there any store I could go in and go, I wonder what stuff by Beck they have, and then flick through a few Beck LPs, or am I just hoping for too much

Rigsby

Roomic Cube wrote: »

anyone know any decent shops round dublin? that sells rock sorta stuff, along with new stuff

like is there any store I could go in and go, I wonder what stuff by Beck they have, and then flick through a few Beck LPs, or am I just hoping for too much

There are a few shops in the Exchequer St area. There is a Book/CD store a few doors up from Tower Records on Exchequer St. They have vinyl. Across the road is another small shop (cant remember the name) situated downstairs. There are two shops (one an outdoor stall) in the nearby Sth Gt Georges St mall. AFAIK, they all do vinyl.

techno-allah

I have to hand it to Tower. They've greatly expanded their vinyl section at the back of the store. Quite a good and varied selection, lot of new albums just released and mostly fairly priced.

discobeaker

Roomic Cube wrote: »

anyone know any decent shops round dublin? that sells rock sorta stuff, along with new stuff

like is there any store I could go in and go, I wonder what stuff by Beck they have, and then flick through a few Beck LPs, or am I just hoping for too much

Check tower records on wicklow street,off grafton street. They have all the new releases like Them Crooked Vultures and Foo Fighters to Blues and Weird Electronic music so you might find some beck there. They also have an Email list that you can sign up to so you find out every week what has arrived in new on the Friday. If anyone wants the link i will post it up here for you to join

As for Record stores in Dublin have you been too the record shop thats in or near Flip in Temple Bar,just past the foggy Dew. Its pretty good. Also alot of posters on adverts have some sweet records.

There is also Road Records (on fade street, i think),Secret book and record store (wicklow st,near tower,Georges street arcade (both the stall and spindizzy shop) Boarderline Records in temple Bar,City Discs in Temple Bar. Every saturday and sunday in Temple Bar square there are afew stalls that have some decent records. Also Tommy down in the soundceller on Nassau street has some nice records for sale,alittle pricey but you might find a few gems in there.

Maybe a section for vinyl could be included in boards as its getting really popular.Maybe the Mods would be interested in that??? Also maybe anyone else who can think of places around Ireland where records can be bought could add in shop names.

myploscarf

Dudess wrote: »

I absolutely love the feel, look, and of course sound of them. They have the best sound of all really - no digital compression.

Vinyl uses vibration to create vibrations and very little messing inbetween like, as you said, digital compression.

myploscarf

Freebird when it was on Grafton Street, Dandelion Market, Basement Records on the quays, Pat Egans sound store. The hours I spent trawling those establishments for bargains. Best buy was Deep Purple Made In Japan paid 99p for a very good copy in Basement records. At the time it would cost you about 8 or 9 pounds brand new. Happy Days.

blastman

irlirishkev wrote: »

I'll often go and buy the 45 on Ebay. Example of this recently, was Blondie's Rapture..

I could have sold you that!

delbertgrady

Roomic Cube wrote: »

Is there any store I could go in and go, I wonder what stuff by Beck they have, and then flick through a few Beck LPs, or am I just hoping for too much

The only Beck album I have on vinyl is Guero. Lovely double LP, plays at 45RPM. Only problem is this bloke from LA scribbled his name all over the cover a few years ago.

I do agree that Tower is great for vinyl. There was a time I'd be buying a new LP in there practically every week.

Roomic Cube

picked up mothers milk by rhcp and undertow by tool in amsterdam

Rigsby

myploscarf wrote: »

Freebird when it was on Grafton Street, Dandelion Market, Basement Records on the quays, Pat Egans sound store. The hours I spent trawling those establishments for bargains. Best buy was Deep Purple Made In Japan paid 99p for a very good copy in Basement records. At the time it would cost you about 8 or 9 pounds brand new. Happy Days.

Two others that spring to mind are "Disc Finder", which was a few doors from the Baggot Inn. It specialised in hard to get discs. Then there was what I used to call the "working man's" record shop, "The Dean" on Dean St, near St Patrick's Cathedral. It was a small shop run by an elderly couple. There was no orderly system and the records were all over the place in cardboard boxes. I'd spend hours on a Saturday afternoon, sifting through them. They had a great cross section of music.

Happy days indeed

myploscarf

Rigsby wrote: »

Two others that spring to mind are "Disc Finder", which was a few doors from the Baggot Inn. It specialised in hard to get discs. Then there was what I used to call the "working man's" record shop, "The Dean" on Dean St, near St Patrick's Cathedral. It was a small shop run by an elderly couple. There was no orderly system and the records were all over the place in cardboard boxes. I'd spend hours on a Saturday afternoon, sifting through them. They had a great cross section of music.

Happy days indeed

It is extremely hard to describe...........the thrill, the addiction, the smell of the vinyl.............sifting through the A to Z seeing all the pricey usuals hoping for the occasional reasonable unusual or the album just bought for it's sleeve art......happy days. Could somebody from way back then please explain why a new copy of the excellent Johnny The Fox was only worth 99p throughout all of the record stores in Dublin. Have been listening to my vinyl copy of this album more and more recently and in my opinion consider it a better album than Jailbreak, now I know it may be a matter of taste or lack of it but it certainly did not deserve the 99p treatment.

Dude111

El Pr0n wrote:

On the right system, yes, sound quality is much better from vinyl from CD, but this could also be down to the quality of the CD player.

Yes cause there is NOTHING BETTER THAN ANALOGUE (For audio)

I love records also!!!!!!

Twee.

Road Records on Fade Street often get new releases in on vinyl.

Someone mentioned Tower, I find them great. And they're on Wicklow Street, not Exchequer Street. You'll often get some gems at the stalls in Temple Bar Square on Sunday afternoons. I got Pretty in Pink by the Psychedelic Furs for €2.

This is my record player. Saved it from my neighbour who was chucking it out. She even had the original guarantee card and instructions.



These are probably my three favourites that are mine, ie not from my dad's collection



Have some more contemporary, as well as my dad's - Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Little Feat, Van Morrison etc.

Rigsby

Twee, that record player ("radiogram" I think they were called) is lovely and a real novelty. My aunt had one, and I used to love when I was brought to visit her when I was a child, so I could delve into the large collection of 45's that she had, and play them to my heart's content. That photo brings back happy memories.

blastman

That brings back memories, Twee! Great idea having it open at the front like that, we had one in the house when I was a kid but it opened on top. The trouble was that as a piece of furniture, there was always ornaments or vases of flowers on it which you had to move to play any records.

On a related note, the 5-disc vinyl edition of "Time Flies" by Oasis dropped through my letterbox yesterday. Lovely!

Twee.

Thanks for the compliments! I really do love it. As you can see it has become a piece of furniture, but why not, it's gorgeous! My mam knows that when I move out, it's coming with me, much to her disappointment

nlgbbbblth

My Hair LPs.

I've got one more since taking those photos.

Roomic Cube

so....do you like hair?

nlgbbbblth

Roomic Cube wrote: »

so....do you like hair?

Hair rocks.

BlueNemo

Took a photo of my (well my Dad's) vinyls today. Then realised it was actually only half of them. Will take a photo of them stacked up and post it here

Dude111

Excellent!!!!!!!

KEEP IT SPINNING BUD

star_adrianne

any good website to find vinyl other than ebay?

Executive Steve

star_adrianne wrote: »

any good website to find vinyl other than ebay?

http://www.discogs.com

http://www.gemm.com

Executive Steve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm4bQVmV3Ok

^ This is an excellent way to clean up even your most knackered records!

You won't fix scratches with it, but it will get decades worth of mould, ash, dust etc out of the grooves, enough to get a slightly better recording off an old one anyway!

Roomic Cube

Executive Steve wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm4bQVmV3Ok

^ This is an excellent way to clean up even your most knackered records!

You won't fix scratches with it, but it will get decades worth of mould, ash, dust etc out of the grooves, enough to get a slightly better recording off an old one anyway!

I did this to an old bowie single I found, tis mad when you pull off the glue!

irlirishkev

Warm water, a soft sponge and a very small amount of washing up liquid works wonders aswell..

Executive Steve

irlirishkev wrote: »

Warm water, a soft sponge and a very small amount of washing up liquid works wonders aswell..

Theoretically you should be using distilled water for that as the minerals in tapwater leave an invisible residue that can actually damage the grooves.

nlgbbbblth

More Hair.

blastman

With that much Hair, you'll never go bald anyway *ba-dum, tish*