Vinyl Records are Back!

Good Will stores, St Vincent de Paul stores, Salvation Army stores.

Does anyone know where I can find vinyl records to use for decorating my room? They don’t have to work, all I want is to stick them on my wall. Any websites or shops, in the UK?

Thanks (:

You should look in your local yellow pages for stores in your area. I have found one website (amongst many), that have degrees of condition. ‘Poor’ and ‘Bad’ are really cheap. Might be worth emailing them to see what they have.

Try going on eBay and see what the titles are selling for on there. Remember, don’t just look at the asking price, watch the items until the sale ends and see how much items actually went for.

I’ve tried a few sites that will send an appraisal for a $2 fee. The record may not even be worth that much. is there a website that you can get info of values for free?

I would just check prices off eBay and see how much similar items are going for, it usually works pretty well for that sort of thing since online price guides usually cost money to view

I want to try an experiment and make records from hardened chocolate. Any clue where I can find molds to pour the chocolate into?

Here’s the vid of a guy who actually did it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVM18iJTMZs

You make your own mold – create a casting from an existing record. You can use plaster are something similar. When that dries, there you have it – a vinyl record mold.

I have a big collection of 33 and 45 rpm record albums… I have framed several of the larger records, as it is easy to find the LP record frames in stores (they are 12" by 12"). Where’s the best place to find the smaller 7" by 7" frames for the record ’singles’? Thanks!

www.hobbyframes.com

I like old records but I want to find vinyl records of bands releasing them today not thirty years ago. I know they are out there. I can find them on the internet but I would like a physical store.

I have built a respectable collection of original presses by haunting thrift stores. Collectors or dealers know it too, and 45s as well as 33s get picked up pretty quickly.

Salvation Army will occasiionally have some,and Goodwill too. Yard sales have yielded some of my treasured platters. Trouble is that youu can’t play them to check the surface quality. If there is no return policy, you’re stuck.

Most re-releases are on CDs.

Hope it works for you as it does for me.

I’m a record collector and ever since cds started coming out, its hard to find vinyl records except in the salvation army centers.

For the same reason they don’t make wax cylinders or 78 rpm records. New technologies push out the old. CDs are much more durable, much harder to scratch, and much easier to transport, and that’s why they’ve taken over. If it hadn’t been for "scratching", vinyl records might have completely disappeared.

As to the next format, no way to tell. Some were touting DAT (Digital Audio Tape) as the next big thing, others Minidiscs. With the explosion of digital music and players, there may not be any future "hard" format, although I don’t see the record companies giving up on something they can actually sell for some time.

Where is a good place to find vinyl records in or near the San Bernardino, CA area?

Groove Time Music Brokers‎
643 W Base Line St
San Bernardino, CA‎
(909) 884-0197‎

hello,
i would like to buy a vinyl record player that doesn’t need a stereo system just the speakers inside the record player (if that makes sense) i would like to play records from 50s-80s which ever size record that is because i am not sure (i am 15..) also if anyone could tell me the brands of record players or what keywords i should search that would be most helpful!!
THANKS

You just want to look for a record player, not a turntable or a component. And the fifties through eighties aren’t so long ago that records have changed. They’re still the same.