Where to buy old vinyl?

[DarrenSV650S]

Some of my dad's vinyl collection was damaged by a flood years ago (kinda my fault). So for his birthday I'd like to replace some of them with originals in as good condition as possible. Where is the best place to start looking? I'm guessing it wouldn't be as desirable if it was a new pressing?

The worst ones seem to be the Neil Young ones because they were at the end of the alphabetical shelf which is where the water was :rolleyes:

I'll need to have a better look to see what else was damaged

[Kenzie]

Oddly enough Oxfam have book and record shops dotted around. Most charity shops have them as I always see them while camera hunting.

[yokohama]

As Kenzie says, charity shops usually have some vinyl but unless you're lucky, probably not what you want. Selection is usually very middle of the road.
There's always ebay or other online vinyl retailers such as discogs.
I'm lucky enough to have a second hand record shop where I live and coincidentally bought Harvest and After the Gold Rush last year for about £6 each. Best bet would be to look for one of these and have a browse.

Actually, you're in Dundee. Is Grouchos still going? I used to get lots of stuff there.

[maviczap]

Ebay or record fairs,

[DarrenSV650S]

Cheers guys. Grouchos is a good shout, I forgot about them

[punyXpress]

Would the vinyl itself be damaged?
Perhaps there's an opening for production of replica labels, and some sleeves will be more valuable than the record they protect. ?

[DarrenSV650S]

Yeah unfortunately you can see the records are warped as they turn round

[Bibio]

good luck finding decent priced records these days as its trendy. 20 years ago skips were full of them as nobody wanted them, even the charity shops get picked clean these days.

[Blapper]

I was in a charity shop in Rochester the other day, they had loads of records - loads of interest too.

[650]

www.discogs.com - can spend hours trawling Oxfam, in the hope that a) you find what you want and b) they aren't going to overcharge you to find their ridiculous east end trendy stores.

Discogs is great, get on it.

[DarrenSV650S]

I ended up getting two of the albums brand new as they have bee remastered recently! I got two more from ebay. One was in really good condition. The other wasn't quite as good but still a lot better than the damaged one

[maviczap]

I am waiting for some Springsteen LP's to be re-released on vinyl, as the original issue ones are rare and go for £150+ in excellent nick & I never thought to buy them when they were originally released.

All his first ones up to Born in the USA have been remastered and released already, so just a few of the later ones would be good

[yokohama]

Really?? Does this mean I'm sitting on a little gold mine? :p
I've had these since the late 70s.

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[maviczap]

Sadly not ��

Those are the ones that have just been remastered and re released. Plus they were sold in their millions as there were no CDs at the time

The ones that are going for big money are The Rising, Live in New York City, Devil's in the Dust, Ghost of Tom Joad, plus Greatest Hits, although not as much as the others. Ghost and Rising are rare and go for the most., The Rising being more popular and listenable

[yokohama]

That's a shame, although I wouldn't have sold them. I stopped buying his stuff after 'Tunnel of Love' and don't have any of his more recent music.

[maviczap]

Ghost came after Tunnel, and a bit of an acquired taste, even for me. Then came Human Touch and Lucky Town, without the E Street band, so not the usual line up.

I'm sure you'd like Live in New York City, either as music or on video, much better than Live 1975 - 85, better sound and live performance.

[BigBaddad]

Oddly enough Oxfam have book and record shops dotted around. Most charity shops have them as I always see them while camera hunting.


Oddly enough, I pop in looking for camera gear (must sell some of my kit though), but never find anything. Picked up a few LP's though.

[maviczap]

Blimey another lurking old Orger