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I think buying vinyl on Ebay is taking an awful risk, really. Used record stores and dealers, both on the Net and elsewhere, are a much safer, though not always cheaper alternative.

Glenn,

I've been buying vinyl off of ebay for sometime and haven't had any issues.
Although I have a bad story.
I won an auction for The Doors first album mono version with the vinyl being VG+. When I received the disc in the mail, it was late, I just got off of work and I was dead tired. Being the impatient dumbass that I am, I wanted to hear the album immediately so I tried to open the box it came and didn't have my exacto near by. I decided to slice open the tape with a steak knife. DUMB IDEA! I was so tired I didn't realize how much pressure I put on the knife. You can pretty much guess what happened next. Luckily it was on one track but a good one, nonetheless.
However, I managed to find a better copy not to long ago and I hope it sounds better than my butchered copy. Just need to run it through my nitty gritty.

I also hear that Classics is reissuing the Bob Dylan "Royal Albert Hall" on vinyl again. Though I assume they created new mothers for these discs, I hope so. Can't wait to finally get my hands on the 200 gram version. Missed them the first time they were released.

Anyone check out the Led Zeppelin boxset? $800 USD for the very limited edition set. All discs are single sided and 200 gram.

Also, Pet Sounds is being reissued on 180 gram colored vinyl with two discs. One in Mono(Yellow) and one Stereo(Green). Japan only release.

Quite a few of my friends have never truly left vinyl. They DJ a lot and have had at various times their own pirate stations in the UK. They all had killer decks and sound systems set up in their houses, to broadcast across the South East and London.

For them and the new generation of rap/scratching influenced DJ's, tables and vinyl are still king.

I very rarely buy a disc on ebay unless it is a M-, M being an unopened record, VG+ can have scratches and surface noise. VG++ maybe if it is rare or hard to find, but VG+ is not a good record, VG is fair, good is bad, and fair is something you hang on your wall.

To be fair, I have bought multiple lps on ebay and done well. Feedback call tell you a lot. You can usually tell if it's someone who sells a lot of records or someone who just has a few and really doesn't know how to grade them. Still, you can do okay with the second kind of seller, you just have to roll the dice a bit.

I have bought a half-dozen (only) vinyls on the Bay. All were as represented; EVERY one was a bargain.

But you'd think that record dealers on eBay would find a consistent way to pack. One came in a file box, 12" X 10" X 18"!

I live a couple of blocks from Village Music, one of the best vinyl stores on the West Coast. Thank God they have janky hours, or I'd have hundreds of new vinyl LPs and no space in which to keep them...

Good thing you can deny the urge to buy them on the 'bay.

It's funny, I only go to record shops here in Seattle that get new vinyl, Easy Street, Sonic Boom or The Landing. Also go to Jive Time and Bebop for used vinyl.
I head straight into the vinyl section. First new releases, then used. CDs are dead last and only if the release is on CD and not vinyl but so far everything new that's come out is on vinyl, and on thick vinyl at that.
Now I just need to upgrade my equipment.
I like the stuff they have at store.acousticsounds.com

I bought a lot of the older Dylan stuff on LP brand new a few years ago. Funny but my old copy of Highway 61 Revisited has better and louder bass than the new LP does and it's not that the new one has more treble or is clearer, it's odd.
This latest one is my 4th copy I think, it's one of my all time favorite albums right up there with Meet The Beatles which is indelibly etched in my brain.

Could it be the difference between stereo and mono mixes, Bob?

How about a hybrid?

I got this Jimmie Rogers double LP for $0.80 at a thrift shop yesterday.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/fuzztone65/jrogers.jpg

Another vinyl value, eh, Mitch?

I think Macca did his CD art like vinyl as well, Ken, for the Run Devil Run release.

No they're both stereo mixes Glenn, I wonder if maybe the new one was digitized somehow. The old one is more full sounding, warmer.