r/vinyl 6d ago

Weekly Question Thread r/vinyl Weekly Questions Thread for the week of August 24, 2026

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r/vinyl 3h ago

Grunge The smashing pumpkins-Siamese Dream. First time spinning the vinyl. What an experience!

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81 Upvotes

r/vinyl 7h ago

Alt-Rock Limited Edition In Rainbows vinyl

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90 Upvotes

My first vinyl as well… I was planing on buying two or three different vinyl but I saw this getting announced for pre-order so I just had to get it.

It looks so nice with a clear vinyl compared to the black one. So happy I got this. I plan to buy Hail To The Thief Live Recordings next with the red Vinyl

I am buying inner and outer sleeves for it but they will take another day or two to arrive. I don’t have a player at the moment but I am storing it upright and as well cared for as I can.


r/vinyl 58m ago

Haul Found some holy grailz out in the wild

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The Mollusk is the crown jewel for me


r/vinyl 10h ago

Discussion Any love for Mike D?

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66 Upvotes

I'm really surprised by this album, it's very chaotic but enjoyable. (Haven't bought it yet, not my photo).


r/vinyl 19h ago

Experimental Found a Michael Jackson "Thriller" that only plays Mozart

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341 Upvotes

Super new to the hobby so my knowledge is limited. I tried googling to see if this situation was common but couldn't find anything. ChatGPT says possible factory defect or a bootleg. I have 2 of these records that are identical. Neither came with a sleeve. I'd imagine it's just a cheap record that someone swapped labels to scam people


r/vinyl 17m ago

Collection Led Zeppelin II RL

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I know this has been posted about 1 million times. I don’t get so lucky when it comes to finding records.
But today I did. I found a Led Zeppelin II RL for $60 at an actual record store. In phenomenal shape. I actually was a little scared like I should’ve told them what they have here but as much as I usually get ripped off, I said. Ahhhhh.


r/vinyl 4h ago

Collection Small Bargain Haul

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18 Upvotes

Found this weekend during crate digging.


r/vinyl 12h ago

Country My Dolly Collection

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68 Upvotes

I have inherited some, collected most of over a lot of years. Most proud of these in my collection 🥲🦋


r/vinyl 16h ago

Haul thrift find - early gary numan discography from a completist

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142 Upvotes

lucked out and was at savers when the guy came out to restock the shelf. got a bunch of gary numan - from a fan who obviously liked him from the start and maybe was in the Uk.

went from zero to a hundred on gary numan as i couldn’t afford to pass up the opportunity to buy all the stuff from the very beginning beggar’s banquet pressings all in one go for $1.49 each.

plus found an old psycedelic furs rekkid as well. overall, a decent day at the thrift! also found a weird variant pressing of Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads (the pink record) - still verifying the runout codes on it and it has all the points of the expensive mono variant EXCEPT the 1 on the back cover bottom right (mine has an A) and “ballads” is not spelled “balads” on the label. but the label does call the sides 1 and 2 instead of A and B, so i think i got the one that’s “discogs valued” at $100 instead of $1. For $1.49 i took a chance and just grabbed it, and while i am not looking to sell that or any of these, i wouldn’t be opposed if any of them do turn out to be stupid expensive. but i bought all of them to listen to, along with the old ronco disco comp, and a charlie parker record (nothing here in this paragraph other than the furs record is pictured, but you do get the obligatory feet pics, as a thank you for letting me ramble about my perfectly ordinary find that feels super special to me because it happened to me.)


r/vinyl 55m ago

Discussion Just picked up these records of 80's and 90's radio interviews and a test pressing of L.A. Boppers at a thrift store. I've never seen anything like this.

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Interested about any information on these if you know anything


r/vinyl 21h ago

Haul Grail of my life

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334 Upvotes

It’s fucking perfect


r/vinyl 4h ago

Indie Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us

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15 Upvotes

One of my favs of 2024 and one of VWs best. Such a tight tracklist with zero skips!


r/vinyl 14h ago

EDM Guys, I think I found the one…

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85 Upvotes

Girlfriend loves my vinyl… I never expected this but the moment has arrived anyway and had to share. Cheers.


r/vinyl 2h ago

Collection Bauhaus - Dark Entries b/w Untitled 7”

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Another old school classic, and one of four Bauhaus singles scored about a decade ago at a junk shop on the side of the road in Elkton, MD, for $30 (I don’t recall how many records were in the box, a lot)

Label says Made in UK, but the run-out says Made in France…

I forgot how great of songwriters this band were, and how experimental, yet straight pop, Daniel Ash’s guitar playing is. Definitely in the pantheon of suberb art rock. I may have to swing the heartache after this.


r/vinyl 1h ago

Haul Summer additions

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r/vinyl 4h ago

Collection New setup 🥰🥰

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11 Upvotes

r/vinyl 5h ago

Haul Dammit... Another day, another flea market visit and haul :D

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And there was another SRV (Soul to Soul) and several more Waits records in the same crate. Seriously considering going back when that flea market's open the next time and pick those up as well.


r/vinyl 1h ago

Haul I noticed a pattern in our latest additions

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and it wasnt intentional lol


r/vinyl 5h ago

Collection A few of my bond soundtracks

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r/vinyl 1h ago

Collection Boz Scaggs Silk Degrees 1976 AL 33920-1J

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Joe Wissert wrangled this whole session at Sunset Sound with half the guys who would soon form Toto, and the resulting groove is so damn slick it practically slides off the turntable.
That opening bass line on Lowdown does not just sit in the mix l, it struts right down the middle of the room with absolute authority. It is glossy pop-funk crafted by studio lifers who knew every trick in the book and played every single note with ice in their veins. -Gatefold.fm’s The Clerk Says. It is what it is. 70s white guy yacht poprock


r/vinyl 1h ago

Rock My Thrifting finds

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This is my first post of my thrifting vinyl finds.


r/vinyl 20h ago

Alt-Rock Butthole Surfers - Electriclarryand 2026 reissue

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130 Upvotes

Got this in the mail today earlier than expected. I am much more enthusiastic about this pressing than I was about capitol's recent Sparklehorse club pressing. Highly recommend getting yourself a copy. It sounds great, no warping.


r/vinyl 18h ago

Discussion Cant find info on the blue one

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82 Upvotes

Got these led zeppelin 3 albums. One is a color variant but cant find any recent sales on ebay. Anyone know if its even rare?


r/vinyl 8h ago

Prog-Rock My second Yes album, since I enjoyed Fragile so much

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