having a hard time buying all the Mobley orig. BN lps

[clifford_thornton]

I'm not an audiophile, but I don't want crappy-sounding records either... admittedly, a hammered early BN pressing might still sound okay, but I'd much prefer a solid, crisp King issue or a frickin' CD and avoid the hassle of skips, crackle, etc.

since i have notjing else to live for anymore

Should we be concerned, chewy?

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

trrust me clifford thornton, my natural soul for 25 dollars is not anymore near mint: read- SCRATCHED and you drop the needle on my new good lp player on my new good jvc receiver from 1978 and new good boston acoustics from 1986 and it sounds 99% as clean as the CD. some of that old Bn vinyl is amazing liek that...

you shoudnt be anymore concered than reasons u guys got. people are horrible all over the world, you guys know that. theres a lot of bad people out there

Edited December 1, 2009 by chewy

[JSngry]

I'm not an audiophile, but I don't want crappy-sounding records either...

I don't eitehr - if I'm going to listen to them. But I'll buy trashed copies of old albums just for the copver, the thickness of the cardboard, the strength of the ink on the paper, just to feel the old-school vinyl, look at the difference in ink shadings on the old labels,, you know, object stuff.

Now, I ain't gonna pay big bucks just to hold a thickass BN cardboard cover and see the difference between a freashly-printed cover and a "transfer" (or whatever they do after a while on "facsimilie" reissues, but if I find something cool and trashed for $5.00 or so, hey, why not. It's got nothing to do with the music and more to do with finding an old, cracked 30s-40s era baseball glove in a garage sale. Useless to do anything but look at an touch, but looking at it and touching it can give you a "sense of history".

Just don't go crazy over it, ya' know.

And hey - keep the faith, chewy, life goes on, all indicators tothe contrarty.

[clifford_thornton]

Oh yeah, I agree JS - music is pretty much what you got when the going gets rough - and I think it probably is for everybody on this board, myself included. Then again, maybe I wouldn't be as broke as I am if I took a breather on buying old Blue Notes and so forth...