When u dig for records...

[the wiggle baron]

Ahh mate of mine (4linehaiku on here...along time ago) had the record digging jackpot. In wantage record fair (not exactly a goldmine, just middle aged mens record collection type stuff) a mate of mine found a box of mostly white labels just marked "garage". He had a dig through and found DMZ002 for £3...eugh, so, so big.

[mks]

I had to stop buying records just for samples once I had accumulated about 10,000 records. Now I only buy records that I am actually going to listen to. I have whittled my collection down to about 5000 records, but it is still a lot to try and move.

I grew up digging and it is one of my favourite activities though these days I just go digging through my own collection.

[topmo3]

not much crate digging opportunities round here.. it's mostly obscure eighties finnish schlagers or classical.. when u find a real gem (like i saw rolling stones' sticky fingers with the original real zipper cover) it's gonna cost the same as in a store

[noam]

Ahh mate of mine (4linehaiku on here...along time ago) had the record digging jackpot. In wantage record fair (not exactly a goldmine, just middle aged mens record collection type stuff) a mate of mine found a box of mostly white labels just marked "garage". He had a dig through and found DMZ002 for £3...eugh, so, so big.

can almost beat that

some guy off a dnb forum i used to post on, messaged me asking if i wanted to take his old 'garage/grime' vinyl off him

asked him what was in there, some goth trad, some MRK1 stuff, some Skream, some DMZ007... for free.

i couldn't do it though, he's got a kid, at the time DMZ007 was goin for over a tonne on discogs, i didn't send him an answer, just the link to the discogs page...

all he wanted off me was for me to do him a mix with the tunes n i could have had them for nothing but i was too nice a person in the end

he ended up selling it for 70quid

[volcanogeorge]

i jus buy what pitchfork tells me to

anyone had luck digging in uk charity shops? best thing i've got amongst all the cliff richard and showtunes is sweet like chocolate for a quid. that and the star wars OST.

[Morrello]

i jus buy what pitchfork tells me to

anyone had luck digging in uk charity shops? best thing i've got amongst all the cliff richard and showtunes is sweet like chocolate for a quid. that and the star wars OST.

In newcastle i've only ever found a handful of decent soul and funk lp's in charity shops over the past 10 years. Best find I had was in Oxfam Durham, came out with around 600 soundtrck and library lp's.

[bass_culture]

i jus buy what pitchfork tells me to

anyone had luck digging in uk charity shops? best thing i've got amongst all the cliff richard and showtunes is sweet like chocolate for a quid. that and the star wars OST.

I picked up a mint copy of this 12" pressing of Dennis Brown's Slave Driver in my local charity shop for about £3

http://www.discogs.com/Dennis-Brown-Sla ... se/2685296

I also bought an original Apollo pressing of Selected Ambient Works for £20 in the same shop.

http://www.discogs.com/Aphex-Twin-Selec ... ease/32662

[kidshuffle]

i buy what sounds nice; i cant ever really make a list

[mks]

This was in my apartment a few years ago.

[noam]

oh shit...

[alfreton audio]

use a bunch of post it notes around my desk, then knock a list together on scrap paper, stroll into the store and start digging (or just ask... but thats not fun)

[upstateface]

CTI

hahahaha THIS!!!!

[pkay]

Text file on desktop and phone. Done this since 98 ( printed list then)

[Lystric]

discogs wantlist for soldout stuff, text document with in stock/forthcoming stuff

[scattybeanhead]

made a list once but seemed kinda pointless. i've got a really really good memory for this sort of stuff so tbh i know what im after. only a few oldies that im still after really

[Pistonsbeneath]

[dsprainman]

A bookshop in my hometown has just opened up their basement and are stocking vinyl. I picked this up on a complete whim/off chance for a £1 'cos it was in the Garage section and pretty old, couldn't listen to it in advance, got home and find there's one selling for £150 on Discogs.

http://www.discogs.com/Various-SMK-14/release/659166

Never heard of that, but sick tune!

[dickman69]

i just found a bunch of deep/tech house records at my used bookstore which was really unusual and neat

also i realized that i could put them on hold for up to a week, then listen @ home on youtube, then come back and buy them if theyre good

only realized this now

[Sexual_Chocolate]

^^ i love how you can walk into a BOOKSTORE over there and find RECORDS you like...

over here i struggle to find a record store that actualy stocks vinyl.

[dickman69]

there is one record store nearby me that has vinyl but its horribly organized and such a pain to look through

i mostly rely on bookstores/thriftstores lol