Ever since you were a kid, you’ve loved records. Now that you’re older, you’ve acquired a collection you can truly be proud of. From your favorite bands as a kid to classics like Zeppelin and the Beatles, your collection is chock full of vinyl you love. But do you know the proper way to treat your albums so they’ll maintain their value over time? The Care and Feeding of Vinyl.com will instruct you... Read more >
Record collecting can be a fun and rewarding hobby, requiring both knowledge and love of vinyl. People collect LPs for a variety of reasons—nostalgia, a passion for music, even a love of cover art. It can also be very rewarding. Whatever your reason, collecting-records.com has information to make collecting records a little easier for you. What You’ll Find on This Site… Do you know the... Read more >
The past ten years have witnessed a boom in the collection and sale of psychedelic, progressive, indie and oldies records. Why, in an age dominated by CDs and MP3s, are legions of audiophiles young and old swearing by their turntables? Out of the gramophone issue words like import, EP, first-pressing, test-pressing, 45, 78, B-side, acetate. The little RCA dog laughed to hear such fun, but... Read more >
Avoid Dust As much as possible, keep your records away from dust. Once dust settles into a record’s grooves, the necessary dust removal can become expensive. Keep records in their sleeves and jackets when not in use, and store them properly. Records will accumulate dust, though, as most things do! When that happens, you’ll have to clean your records. To clean vinyl (an LP): Use a... Read more >
Hapless folks who switched over to buying CDs or tapes in the 80s have no idea how much some of their rare vinyl may be worth. The prices of limited production runs and out-of-print records have been rising steadily over the last twenty years. Nowadays, first-pressings of just about anything, from the Grateful Dead to John Coltrane to Esquivel to Patti Smith, yield a profit in the market... Read more >
With each passing day, more and more people are jumping on the audiophile bandwagon. Yet CDs and tapes remain the dominant medium, and record companies are inclined to discard the blanks used to make the lp's of older artists in order to make room for the pressing of the next big thing. So what if they’re not continuing to press those classic records, aren’t there plenty of lp's and 45's... Read more >
Half the fun of record collecting is talking about what's in your collection and what records you found on the weekend. Our editor kicks off a great discussion about favorite finds in her record collecting forays, with details and tales of the great ones. Are you collecting records? Or thinking about record collecting as a hobby? We've listed a few of our favorite records along with... Read more >
Truth and tall tales from the land of classic rock. Can you identify fact from fiction? If you’re a Beatles fan, surely you’ve heard Revolution #9—playing forward, that is. But did you know that when you play it backwards, you hear the words “Turn Me On, Dead Man?”Fact! If you don’t believe us, try it yourself. (Paul wasn’t dead, though. He’s still alive and well, as of this... Read more >
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