I fucking record player is on my wishlist. Do you think I could trust one from the thrift store? They had four at the one I visited last week, but only one had a needle that looked happy.

Sorry, I used all mine for skeet.

Eide, I have one record. It's the soundtrack to "Diva" and you may have it if you wish. In exchange, just send karma. E-mail me your address if you want it. If you don't want it, I shall pout and throw a tizzy.

dano, get one from a thrift store and replace the cartridge. I know of a good place around here to get cartridges and needles, I could pick it up and send it to you.

The downside is that they don't always work well from thrift stores. I got a nice one, but it needs some work, and until I get it plays records a scosh too slow.

Needles can be replaced. I'd be more concerned about the drive system (belt and motor). Those can be harder to fix/replace. Have you ever heard a record play juuuuust off speed? Yeah.

DFT: I looked up "Diva" on the IMDB and it sounds pretty interesting. If no one else in this thread wants it, I'll certainly take it. Let's see if it's already on someone else's wishlist, though.

Hmm, good points about the speed. I want something cheap and easy. I have a great turntable but never replaced the needle my first son broke as a toddler out of sheer laziness, and now my second son has bent the arm. Can the arm be replaced easily?

It depends on the type of turntable. If you google the model number, there are plenty of internet sites selling parts etc.

I gotcher LPs right here, pal. Whaddya looking for? Ferrante & Teicher? Mitch Miller? Mantovani? My collection's infinite, like the Longines Symphonette...

danostuporstar

I want something cheap and easy.

I hear ya!

Before vinyl started making a slight comeback I was so petrified that I'd one day be without a turntable that I acquired 3 more from friends getting rid of theirs. Now I have four turntables - two hooked up to stereos and two in reserve. I didn't want to have all these records and nothing to play them on. I'd be like the vinyl equivalent of the Twilight Zone where the book nerd finally has time to read all the great books (after a nuclear war) but breaks his glasses. Nooooooooooooooooo!

dano has kids????

LPs are so heavy that I got rid of most of mine - all I have left fits in one plastic crate.

When I moved to Boston from Oklahoma City in 1988, I boxed up my LPs in a standard three-foot shipping box to take with me, even though I wasn't my bringing my stereo. I figured, eventually I would buy a stereo and I'd need my records.

Two years later, I still hadn't bought a stereo, and I had met the woman I would marry in 1990. One of the presents we got was one of them new-fangled CD players, so we commenced to replace our combined music libraries with CDs.

It's now seventeen years; I've moved the box of LPs five times - from two apartments, one condo, and a house - and I STILL haven't opened it.

Anyone wants to put a bid in on the box 'o' vinyl, feel free!

My collection's infinite, like the Longines Symphonette...

blue canary on the outlet by the lightswitch...

yhbc: I imagine a bid would have to be pretty high just to cover the cost of shipping...

Also, I am trying to figure out how to game this thread. I want to get more vinyl, but I don't want to give away any vinyl.

*twiddles fingers like Monty Burns*

If the exchange could consist of me going to the Salvation Army and buying the $1 'dregs' LPs and sending them out, I'd be up for it. I am now checking there once a week for the occasional good find, but most of what they have is the multiple copies of "The Sound of Music," the Mantovani, and the Herb Alpert and Tijuana Brass. I have a liking for those, but my father has pretty much the entire discography, so I'm not interested in duplicating.

yhbc: Where you at? I might could take that off your hands, personal-like, if you're still in MA.