Your 45 collection

[Soulhawk]

sealed or better

except for that Charles Sheffield

 

[MrFingaz]

I recently found some dirty DIRTY 45's at a local antique shop, so that probably brought my collection down to a vg.

 

[discos_alma]

European ones with high quality paper pic sleeves are a special favourite.

If I had more money I could see myself collecting alt. pic sleeves of classiques:

etc

 

[Reynaldo]

For play purposes it has to be VG+ or better but for archival-only purposes the labels just have to be clean. I'll buy cracked or worse schitt if the label is clean.

 

Wow...buying cracked records with good labels? Interesting collectro choices.

If it don't play, I don't pay.

 

[pickwick33]

Wow...buying cracked records with good labels? Interesting collectro choices.

If it don't play, I don't pay.

A little surface noise doesn't bother me...but only to a point.

If the snaps & pops are singing backup...I'll deal with that.

But if they're singing lead and drowning out the rest of the band...time to use it as a wall ornament. Or just throw the damn thing away.

 

[johnshade]

sealed or better

except for that Charles Sheffield

 

[Kinetic]

If you have more then five 45s, then you're probably spanning the condition range already - mine are anywhere from VG through to M-

Like a lot of dudes on here, I'm much more interested in how the record sounds as opposed to how it looks. I have a copy of Barbara Lynn's 'I'm a good woman' that looks absolutely fucked, and plays pretty strong VG+ with one or two pops - and that does me fine.

Also, I prefer big holes to small ones

 

[HarveyCanal]

 

[holmes]

Over the last 12 months or so I've been trying to make my 45 collection VG++/Excellent or better. I am in the process of upgrading anything that doesn't make the cut. I am probably 80% there. I will say that buying 45s the 2nd time around to mint up isn't quite as satisfying as finding them originally. It's not easy or cheap with some of the rarer titles which were around VG.

 

[pabloscooter]

G+ to mint

I'll buy (and play out) cracked records- if they sound good enough.

 

[BreakSelf]

They are so beautiful, but so horrible to flick through. There's so little info on them but the labels are so pretty.

 

[analog_tape]

I have a copy of Barbara Lynn's 'I'm a good woman' that looks absolutely fucked, and plays pretty strong VG+ with one or two pops - and that does me fine.

My copy of Barbara Lynn is also like that, but then i'll have some clean 45's that sound like shit

 

[pickwick33]

I have a copy of Barbara Lynn's 'I'm a good woman' that looks absolutely fucked, and plays pretty strong VG+ with one or two pops - and that does me fine.

My copy of Barbara Lynn is also like that, but then i'll have some clean 45's that sound like shit

I've heard quite a few factory-fresh indie-rock 45's from the nineties onward that sound like homemade shit.

 

[skel]

I have a copy of Barbara Lynn's 'I'm a good woman' that looks absolutely fucked, and plays pretty strong VG+ with one or two pops - and that does me fine.

My copy of Barbara Lynn is also like that, but then i'll have some clean 45's that sound like shit

I've heard quite a few factory-fresh indie-rock 45's from the nineties onward that sound like homemade shit.
Um.... that's partly the point, no?

 

[pickwick33]

I have a copy of Barbara Lynn's 'I'm a good woman' that looks absolutely fucked, and plays pretty strong VG+ with one or two pops - and that does me fine.

My copy of Barbara Lynn is also like that, but then i'll have some clean 45's that sound like shit

I've heard quite a few factory-fresh indie-rock 45's from the nineties onward that sound like homemade shit.
Um.... that's partly the point, no?
It's one thing to be RECORDING in lo-fi, but it shouldn't be MASTERED that way.