discogs are reviews are great, it's either:a) old school clubbers reminiscing and being crazy hyperbolic about old school house/raveb) a bunch of people posting "repress please?" or "you gougers should be ashamed or yourself" (hip euro "underground" deep house 12"s on small labels)c) some person posting "the label on my copy is more periwinkle than violet and 'chuggin gasoline' is about 6 seconds longer than on the original uk chiswick issue"
― brimstead, Sunday, 19 April 2015 03:39 (eight years ago) link
haha that is so spot on. absolutely love the reviews that fall into the first category, they always make me smile. also love visiting profiles and seeing something like "I have been spinning UK Garage records for more than two decades now and have thousands of records in my collection! UK GARAGE FOR LIFE!!!!!!"
It's like some completely different side of the internet where the majority of people seem incredibly passionate and cynicism doesn't exist.
― misterjoshua, Sunday, 19 April 2015 03:48 (eight years ago) link
I have the 2014 issue, does it need a new entry ?or, can someone pleas do an entry for the 2014 issue so's I can add it to my collection.
― brimstead, Sunday, 19 April 2015 05:49 (eight years ago) link
Really got into buying cheap records off discogs the last few months, but now a seller seems really flakey, took ages to send records and stopped replying to messages and then was all like "I sent your records two days ago according to my records" but they've not arrived and now I'm like ugh ugh ugh.
― NotKnowPotato (stevie), Thursday, 21 May 2015 15:22 (eight years ago) link
I posted in the vinyl/scams thread a month ago about a dispute with a seller on Discogs who sent me the wrong record and then has refused to deal with me (e.g. he said "I have someone who handles discogs for me - email them" but then won't give me that person's email address).
I've opened up a PayPal dispute but they give the seller ages to respond and it hasn't happened yet.
So I just had a (maybe stupid) question about Discogs feedback: If I give him Poor feedback, can't he also just respond with Poor feedback for me? I have a perfect record and don't want to tarnish it because he's been a dick, you know? Thanks for any guidance....
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 10:28 (eight years ago) link
Wouldn't he have to buy something from you to give you bad feedback?
― paolo, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
I once had someone send me a copy of the second Neu! album instead of the first but it's dead good so I wasn't too bothered
― paolo, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
No, you can give feedback as a seller as well as a buyer.
The record I got instead of the one I wanted was NOWHERE NEAR as good as Neu!s second LP, I can assure you
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
Hi gang - I have a question. I've recently spent over four weeks painstakingly entering my entire CD collection (with vinyl and cassettes planned for later) and was planning to print out this master list for safe keeping (in case, you know, Discogs doesn't exist at some point or something). Then I noticed the "export" feature. Is this what I think it is? A way to save all this data to a hard drive, or Word doc or something? Why must I "request" a data export? Once it's exported, it's copied, (not transferred), right? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
― Wimmels, Monday, 31 August 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
Because of the amount of data, your export request will be queued and processed in the order it was received. We will email you when it is ready for download.
you could just copy and paste the list into an excel document or text file though, right?
― brimstead, Monday, 31 August 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link
It pops it out in Excel and it takes just a few seconds.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 31 August 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
And yes it's just a copy.
Thanks!
xp not sure how copy and pasting would work. I may try that if I run into any problems doing what Alex suggested.
― Wimmels, Monday, 31 August 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link
well yeah i can copy and paste 25 entries at a time but any more than that and it crashes excel.
― brimstead, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:08 (eight years ago) link
hey but if you paste it into notepad and then copy and paste into excel it works.
― brimstead, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:11 (eight years ago) link
Successfully did this and downloaded a zip in CSV format. Not ideal: I was hoping it would default to my alphabetical list (it seems to be going by catalog numbers, despite the fact that my Collection is currently organized alphabetically), and it's awfully difficult to read this way. Still, OCD nit-picking aside, this a far better solution than printing all 4,000 titles on what would be at least a full ream of paper. Thanks again!
― Wimmels, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
https://www.imf.org/external/help/csv.htm
― brimstead, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:32 (eight years ago) link
Helpful - thanks! Looks like the bottom of that page will solve my problem.
BTW, does anyone else do this? Print out their Discogs stuff (inventory, Collection, otherwise), I mean? My wife thinks I'm crazy. "Discogs isn't going anywhere," etc etc.
― Wimmels, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:44 (eight years ago) link
Well it can be good to have for insurance purposes, I guess.
― brimstead, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:47 (eight years ago) link
Marketplace 1 For Sale from £35.25
Have: 17 Want: 7Avg Rating: 3.75 / 5Ratings: 4Last Sold: 06 Jul 15Lowest: £3.60Median: £3.99Highest: £4.32
seeing so much of this!
― saer, Sunday, 25 October 2015 12:32 (eight years ago) link
but someone will pay it, and in a few months time it will say
Marketplace 1 For Sale from £95.25
Highest: £35.25
― saer, Sunday, 25 October 2015 12:34 (eight years ago) link
Free money!
― niels, Sunday, 25 October 2015 12:47 (eight years ago) link
Here's the record in question...actually feeling this one might not sell (ive never heard it...and the video on the page...is some kind of error)
http://www.discogs.com/Various-003/release/197168?ev=item-vc
― saer, Sunday, 25 October 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
found some clips at juno...wont be adding that to my wishlist
― saer, Sunday, 25 October 2015 12:59 (eight years ago) link
Ordering a record from abroad plus a bunch of cheap makeweight stuff to lower the postage cost per record and act as stiffeners, then getting an email to say they don't actually have a copy of the one thing you really wanted anymore, but don't worry, all the other garbage has already been packed up and despatched to you
― djp HOOS clouds (NickB), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
how much are the cheap makeweight ones and were they completely unhearable before you bought them?
― saer, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
Only four or five things for a couple of quid each, stuff I know and like well enough, but hardly records I would have elected to have sent to me transcontinentally in their own right. Can't even remember what they are tbh
― djp HOOS clouds (NickB), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
Just an everyday tale of dumb luck really
― djp HOOS clouds (NickB), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link
In that case I always complain and make sure I get at least a very substantial refund.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
I often add cheap records if ive no idea what they are and cant hear them otherwise
― saer, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
the exchange rate for US dollars is as favorable as it has been for years, but man those int'l shipping fees add up.
― skip, Thursday, 5 November 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
another way to look at it - I've been spoiled rotten by Amazon Prime.
― skip, Thursday, 5 November 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
Marketplace 1 For Sale from £723.44
Order Date Condition Sleeve Condition Price in your currency Price2014-03-30 Very Good Plus (VG+) Very Good Plus (VG+) £6.642013-09-04 Near Mint (NM or M-) Not Graded £499.642011-03-26 Near Mint (NM or M-) Generic £265.792010-07-04 Very Good Plus (VG+) Not Graded £199.992007-01-24 Mint (M) Generic £5.712006-05-23 Mint (M) £34.98
wow
― saer, Saturday, 7 November 2015 10:07 (eight years ago) link
Boots mixed in with genuine articles? Not supposed to happen of course.
― Noel Emits, Saturday, 7 November 2015 13:39 (eight years ago) link
or with cover/without cover maybe as per the "generic" tag
― sleeve, Saturday, 7 November 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
Bear in mind, sometimes the lowest price is because it sold for £10 when first issued, and now it sold out and prices have shot up.
― Mark G, Saturday, 7 November 2015 17:14 (eight years ago) link
what item is that?
― skip, Saturday, 7 November 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/Jeremy-Semi-Structured-Life/release/566640
― saer, Saturday, 7 November 2015 18:55 (eight years ago) link
okaaayy
http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/255027859
― brimstead, Sunday, 8 November 2015 06:19 (eight years ago) link
I saw some some expensive autographed LPs on the wall at Amoeba the other day and I don't understand the idea of selling something that's "autographed" without a certificate of authenticity.
― austinato (Austin), Sunday, 8 November 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
a piece of vinyl and some instructions
http://www.discogs.com/Honeymoon-Production-Manipulation-Muzak/release/1102919
― saer, Monday, 9 November 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
I love all of those RRR anti-records conceptually, but I don't actually own any.... I do have multiple copies of the lock groove releases.
― sleeve, Monday, 9 November 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
I own this record. Didn't realize it was going for so much.
― Austin, Monday, 9 November 2015 23:40 (eight years ago) link
semi related... has anyone bought collections or groupings of records before? If so how did you find them? I would love, say, to get a bunch of BOMP records, or a disco collection, or whatever, but most things you can find online seem to be a bunch of crap, horribly maintained, or both.
― skip, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 03:31 (eight years ago) link
A DJ in Seattle sold/consigned his collection to Silver Platters. There were so many they had their own section of the store. It was a gold mine for weeks. You can see who has the most records in your wantlist in Discogs. Can be useful and frustrating. There's a shop in Denmark that has 18 records I want and I only have 50 on my want list.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 05:01 (eight years ago) link
MYT profile:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/business/media/discogs-turns-record-collectors-obsessions-into-big-business.html?ref=topics&_r=1
― sleeve, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
NYT, sorry
dying @ photo
― Not interested, sock. (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 21:32 (eight years ago) link
haha yes
― sleeve, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
kinda funny typo halfway through
The site, once run from a computer in Mr. Lewandowski’s closet and originally restricted to electronic music, has grown rapidly. It now has 37 employees around the world, 20 million online visitors a month and three million registered users. It eventually opened to all genres of music and has a mission of cataloging every record in existence.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 21:36 (eight years ago) link
especially this year when I am pricing to sell sell sell
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 16:30 (two days ago) link