Vinyl Resolutions 2024: New Year, New Approaches to Record Collecting
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- The start of a new year has given me some idea to refine how I'll collect records in 2024. Click ahead to learn all about my goofy VINYL RESOLUTIONS 2024!
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Great resolutions Chance…. Let’s continue the 90’s OG hunt for sure!
Definitely a given!
Sounds like a good plan. Your goals and resolutions are very similar to mine. I’m looking forward to hearing/watching your journey this year.
Cheers
Wait, you are holding me accountable? Now I’ve GOTTA do these. 🤣🤣
This is first year I have decided to really make an effort to collect differently. My number 1 is to collect what means a lot to me instead of getting caught up in something that I have randomly seen somewhere. My number 2 is going through my collection and cleaning out the records that I just kind of like to make room for what I love.
I like where your head is at T. It's easy to fall prey to a blind recommendation. Been there, done that! haha
Fantastic video! It’s always good to give & see some smiles that you create.
Good luck in the New Year amigo 🤙🏻
Same to you sir! Great to find your channel through Tag season 🤘🏻
@@ConcertBuddie likewise 100%!
Nice resolutions! It’s always good to have some goals to focus for the year. I dig it. Good luck Buddie.
Thanks man! Appreciate you dropping by as always 🤘🏻
Oh how I need to listen to current records and just slow down on my buying. Reissues, when I first started collecting I told myself I was only going to buy OG pressing and well that went out the window a long time ago so I do need to do better. There are just so many great reissues but I don’t need every single one! I like your philosophy here and agree completely and basically everything! Great video and ideas!
It’s definitely a great time for reissues, but boy oh boy are they making some of the same ones over and over again. I’ve been caught up in the wave of “don’t miss this one” or “is this the best sounding one” far too long. And listening to the actual music sometimes falls behind the actual hobby/collecting part. Gonna do better this year! Thanks for watching sir 🤘🏻
Great resolutions buddy.
I am going to try to be more intentional in my purchases as well. Sticking more to my genera specific want lists. I’m also gonna try to post more videos and comment more on all the great videos I watch. ✌️
Great resolutions! One I didn’t share is focusing on collecting a couple specific small labels, especially 70’s ones that likely ever reissue some artists.. Adds spice to the hunt, and keeps it fresh. 💪🏻
Love the video, great idea! I told myself the same thing with #1 as well. #2, I definitely have to walk away from impulse buys. Walking away is ok. Thanks for the great content! I made my first Vinyl Finds this week. Up to three videos now. Thanks for the encoragement my friend.
Keep making them Buddie! I’ll get I er there and watch later. Looking forward to it 🤘🏻
Thank you my friend
Awesome hearing your approach, totally relate on those late night impulse buys 😂, I like how you said space is limited, so true.
Yes listen to more records this year!!
“Space is becoming a problem”
- said by most record collectors at some point in their journey 😁. Have a nice weekend, M!
Solid game plan Buddie, one note particularly stood out "intentionality"...this is where I find myself now. Find enjoyment from the ID / Acquire / Listen more and not just buy whatever.
For sure. I think give more, buy less could just as easily be modified to listen more, but less as well. Less filler, more killer 🤘🏻
Great video Buddie. A good reminder to us all to keep the intention foremost in the hobby .. intention to collect only what matters, intention when it comes to listening, intention to share the joys of the hobby with others (unless your country has atrocious shipping rates 🇨🇦…damnit). 🤘🏼
We need to get that underground delivery service from Detroit to Canada off the ground, pronto!
Fantastic resolutions bro
Thanks man!
Great resolutions! I’ve been selling off or giving away records that 1. I haven’t listened to in 2 years or 2. Are not favorite bands. Removing those impulse buys!
2 years is definitely a reasonable marker, I like it! Admittedly, watching other videos here on YT has been bad for impulse buys for me. But I’m simply going to push my chair back from the buffet and go for a walk after dinner 😂 Thanks for sharing your experience here!
Nice video, Chance! I haven’t been seriously collecting records for a very long time, but I feel like I went from 0-60 in record time building my collection, making plenty of mistakes along the way. I’ll continue to learn and be more selective, not buy multiple copies of records (unless my fav bands), and not impulse buy. Going to my first record show next weekend, so I’m excited about that!
Nice Andy! Record shows can be a lot of fun. Bring cash, don’t be worried to negotiate price (worst they can say is NO), and make sure to do research on anything north of $20 before pulling the trigger. I hope it’s a fruitful expedition of wax gold! PS - bring a bag 😁
I like where you're taking this🤘 and i think its a natural progression for most of us given enough years. To fine tune your collection to the point that even YOU'RE impressed 😂 and we see it everyday..thanks for taking the time to give us all a shout this morning. Also thanks for not doing vclt videos
🤣🤣🤣 You should hear my take on contest videos 🤣🤣🤣
Having done this for many years and done dozens of comparisons, I can tell you the differences are really in the margins so you're okay to stay out on the Getz/Gilberto type pressing. You don't find night and day differences in a lot of the audiophile reissues. The differences are going to be very subtle and in the margins. Especially for Jazz when the original recording was so well done to begin with anyway. This year, I will be skipping out on any new audiophile reissue I already have.
Yours is a voice I definitely trust in this space P. Appreciate you watching and weighing in!
Hey Chance, I started a new approach too. I try to give a critical listen on streaming to any “must have” records before pulling the trigger. basically treating the older classics the same as new artists, making sure it’s something I expect to play more than a few times. That’s not very exciting but these records take up a lot of (limited) space! Anyway good luck on your resolution and let me know if you need my shipping address 😄.
Hahahaha. I'll keep you in mind, Buddie! I just read an email that I'm related to an Egyptian price and he died without any heirs, and I stand to inherit his COMPLETE fortune once I send a check for 200k. So you can keep ALL my records!
Great collecting records focus for the year Chance my focus is to do more videos consistently and dig in more different cities I travel too.
Co-sign, on both 🤘🏻
We're on the same wave length. I pretty much have all the albums I want at this point so I'm now upgrading what I have. I'm also buying local instead of on line.
Not only are we both devilishly handsome Harry, but smart record collectors as well! 😎
If you find yourself heading to Minnesota let me know, happy to take you around.
Right on! 🤘🏻 I’ve bought online from Mill City & Electric Fetus, but have them on my list for in person digging.
I hear brother! Only so much space for rekkids. I need to get rid of the doubles, spend more time listening to records I own rather than buying more and get less freebies from work.✌🏻
Or you’ll have to have your VC buddies help you with those work freebies more regularly 😂. I was actually thinking about space tonight. Now that I have a little more, I need to not be in a rush to fill it. At least that’s my POV tonight 🤷🏻♂️
Aww shit, you went Heywood Nelson on us! 😂 As always, Champ, (that wasn’t a typo) I thoroughly enjoy your offerings of humble pie 🥧. Where there is no light we cannot reflect. Your resolutions are admirable. I agree with your reissue thoughts. I will only buy reissues of very expensive OGs and difficult to find rarities. Finding 1 or 2 of the greatest sounding pressings even if they’re different pressings is where it ends for me. In a perfect world I’ll have a minty OG and a new audiophile reissue of all my favorite recordings. This year will find me downsizing my collection to one room of 28 Kallax cubes from 2 rooms and a total of 64 kallax cubes and 15 boxes of records I’ve yet to qualify into my collection. Jesus! Now I’m stressed. Maybe some therapy too 😂. Peace Buddy.
That sounds like a ton of work ahead Steve! Now THAT is admirable - will be curious to hear your decision trees of what stays or what goes. Plus, how will I be able to return the VCLT favor if you are making your collection smaller?!? 🤪 Challenge accepted!
Hey Chance great video. You know I think a lot of us are feeling the same way. For me it started out going to garage sales and estate sales finding all these awesome albums for a dollar or two. Then it was record stores and record shows. Then it evolved to ebay and online record stores, to a point I was buying a lot of these audiophile and one steps. So finally I thought this is getting out of hand. What started out as an inexpensive weekend hobby is getting to be too much. Plus you have to ask yourself, how many records is enough. How many of these am I going to play a second time. So now with these reissues, unless I hear someone say this is the best copy of this record I've ever heard, am I going to pull the trigger on. So this year it's going to be a few and far in between. I'm going to sit back and enjoy what I've collected over the forty years and stop stock piling. Also if we all stick together on this, maybe the prices will come down to a reasonable level again.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Very, very similar journey I took as well. At one point I was documenting the different twists in my collecting journey, because I feel like a lot of collectors walk a similar path. Have a great Sunday! ✌🏻
I definitely need to follow your lead and invest in decent inners. I spend 100s on a sought after OG, give it a clean and stick it back in the OG inner! The UK inners from the late 60s/early 70s are often polylined so can suffer from off gasing. I've veen trying to mint up since the mid 00s. Always looking for better copies but its tough and expensive. Thankfully never gone down the reissue or audiophile route. Totally agree with you trying to travel and pick up records real world. Online buys just cannot compete with that feeling. Cheers Chance, hope you're well....Nige
Buddie, we’ve got to stage an intervention for you about switching over to better inners 🤣. I wish I could say I wasn’t bitten by the Audiophile bug; while some titles have been terrific, many have been not as good as the OG or just meh (many MoFi’s on that list). One of these days I’d love to see your Discogs to see what bangers you’ve grabbed over the years. Think about it Nige. Cheers! 🍻
@@ConcertBuddie Haha, for sure with the inners. I'd not be able to afford anymore records if I tried to resleeve all of them but I really should prioritise the more expensive ones. If I was starting a collection from scratch I'd definitely just do reissues and some audiophile pressings, makes perfect sense. My collection is logged on Discogs if you were ever that bored 😄. Cheers Nige
Good video I agree with you on a lot of the resolutions you mentioned!, especially buying all these reissues That’s my biggest problem Do I really need 4 different colored vinyl versions?? No! Do I need to get the MoFI, UHQRS, Rhinos versions??? Not really! This I’m trying to change this year!!!
We can do this, together, Dave. Repeat after me: buy now or cry later is just a t-shirt. 😂
i don't mind the re-issues or represses of records from 1991,on up,,gives me a chance to get back some albums i sold off, but when it comes to 1950's thru 80's albums,id rather look for originals.
Makes sense Dave. Can totally appreciate that approach 🤘🏻
even though i have 1,000 LP's i do not have one duplicate.
What’s up bro
Mine is
a) using autofocus in my music community videos
b) make 100 more music community videos
100?!? Super ambitious (but I like that). Keep grinding, young gun. 🤘🏻
As I'm digging through my collection to get organized, I found multiple copies of the same record. Why? For me, it's "don't drink and browse late at night." It's how I got in this situation.
I saw the new 1 Step Getz/Gilberto. I asked myself the same question...why?
Been wondering how your reorg was going. What’s the plan for moving those extras? Any changes to that record space?
@ConcertBuddie Shot a video this morning about it but ran out of time to post. Should be up this afternoon.
The reissues will be even more this year. It is nuts and I have really just said screw up, the prices are stupid on s much of these sad some albums you ca find a OG for $10. Stupid. So I screwed up my resolutions by the first week I have more enjoyment with reissues.
Speaking of failed resolutions, I’m still drooling over that Apple fritter (I think it was) you showed recently during your travels. Don’t let Mazzy food shame you - eat all that good stuff you can 😂 Let’s not add records just to add them in 2024 - deal? I’ll need you to be an accountability partner here🤝
I only buy 1 copy of each album very few titles I have multiple copies.
Dude, that discipline is what I’m striving for. I’d love to hear more of your own process in a future video 🤘🏻
@@ConcertBuddie will do
Chance, is the Creed dude's Sinatra record killer or filler?
Honestly, it’s not half bad. It features some members of Sinatra’s old band on accompaniment, which is neat, proceeds from the album sale benefited children with Down syndrome. It is made as a picture disc for some reason, so that’s the downside. Niche pickup, for sure. 🎺
@@ConcertBuddie that does sound rad!
Less reissues for sure, again the quality control stinks. It hasn’t gotten better, it’s as bad as it ever was. Originals are the way to go, if you can’t find it immediately, you will eventually find it. Also cds are definitely making a comeback, so many great deals especially for the box sets, I much prefer to buy the cd version than a ten album set $$$😮
You are so right. I’ve had so much warping on recent new records that it’s making me consider investing in a Record Pi to fix them (coupled with buying less new). Funny you mention CDs as I just rescued a 5 disc changer to add to the home stereo, mainly to enjoy those albums STILL only on cd. Thanks for dropping by and sharing your POV!
I’ve been trying to be more mindful of condition too when I buy used records. If it’s a record I really want to listen to, I’ll Pick up a placeholder copy until I can find something better. My biggest vinyl resolution is to clean my whole collection with the spin clean I just picked up. I know it’s going to take forever, but it’s got to be done 🧼
A solid placeholder is better than nothing, I’m with you there. As a friend reminds me regularly, the records I’m looking for will show up eventually (and they do). Just be patient - easier said than done! 😂😂