Post your Discogs user profile for discussion/bragging/desperate attempt to bond with like minds

i've got a huge bunch of classical records that aren't on this but but this is me:

https://www.discogs.com/user/Mount_Analogue/collection

Cool stuff! Reminded me I need to pick up the CFCF LP still...

Fully caught up on mine...it's the daily want-list email that I should ignore now:
https://www.discogs.com/user/dronestreet/collection

Wow way too many things to talk about in there. I love a ton of that. Do you shop at CommendNYC? Also how's the new Duster?

Howdy--great thread idea:
https://www.discogs.com/user/craigdunsmuir/collection

Wow way too many things to talk about in there. I love a ton of that. Do you shop at CommendNYC? Also how's the new Duster?
― Evan, Monday, March 30, 2020 8:37 AM

Thanks! Definitely order/visit Commend everytime I'm in the city, and always peep what they post! I also work/moonlight at a shop called Luna Music (www.lunamusic.net) in Indianapolis – we have a comparable "left-field" section, and my coworkers are on that wavelength.

If you like the Duster boxset...new Duster falls right in line. Remarkably similar!

I've slowed down buying recently and have whittled it down a bit (so it mostly still fits on this old Ikea Expedit), here you go: https://www.discogs.com/user/stadtwerker/collection

Great idea, and still going through folks' links above but so much great stuff in there.

Here's mine: https://www.discogs.com/user/neiljstewart/

Not added CDs yet, though maybe now's the time.

If you like the Duster boxset...new Duster falls right in line. Remarkably similar!

― dronestreet, Monday, March 30, 2020 9:19 AM (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Not to BRAG (incoming brag) but I got in on Duster before it became a cult hit. Nabbed Stratosphere back when it was a $10-15 LP via mailorder (can't remember if I got it somewhere dull like Amazon or something about 10+ years ago). But yeah kept putting off checking out the new one. Saw them live a handful of times in recent years ramping up to this release too.

Luna is associated with Tobin Sprout right? I asked him where I could get Let's Welcome The Circus People and he said ask the Luna shop. They got back to me many months ago and said they were putting one on sale for $85. Since that's $40 more than I was hoping to spend I declined and sure enough it's still sitting there in the discogs marketplace today.

I used to manage a store in NJ but rarely would my co-workers be on my wavelength, sounds like I'd have fit in better over there with you guys!

Apparently Meitei is popular among ilxors huh

xp

hah picked that one up on a bit of a whim, need to give it another listen, I loved the cover!

Same! It's very serene but it also floats out the window

This is a fun thread idea.

My collection profile is here:
https://www.discogs.com/user/GoodRecordsOakland/collection

My store is here:
https://www.discogs.com/seller/GoodRecordsOakland/profile

Looking forward to checking out everyone who's posted so far!

love the record descriptions in your shop Sparkle Motion!

Huh I guess I slept on that Bedhead live album when it came out.

The Bedhead reecord is pretty good. Based off this it seems like they translated their live sound to the studio quite well.

xpost to Neil S- thanks a bunch. they're laborious but fun to write and it adds something to the shop, I believe.

I turned off the "browse" feature for other users after getting spammed a few too many times but hey I'll play, turned it back on

https://www.discogs.com/user/DJsleeve

oops

https://www.discogs.com/user/DJsleeve/collection

wow Sleeve, that's a massive collection!

lol I know. seriously trying to pare it down to 5K but obviously that's been put on hold.

also, NickB still beats me :) <3

https://www.discogs.com/user/blackirish/collection
haven't logged a lot on discogs but I'm a very active buyer. that old fave artists list needs updating and the wantslist is mostly outdated too. I logged a lot more on RYM where my user name is corcomroe.

the wantlist feature sends me daily emails about the same LP, every single day

it's the worst... like, I have 500+ items on this thing (most of which I just use because I don't want to forget to investigate them) but it sends me notices for the same 5 records from the same 10 sellers day after day.

I switched off the wantlist notification emails - I think maybe some sellers re-list their stock regularly to get peoples attention.

I deleted everything out of my wantlist having realised there was stuff that had been in there for ages, was inexpensive but I hadn’t bothered getting.

xp yeah I fucking take those out of my damn wantlist cuz I hate it so much, the re-listing trick. I wish you had a way to block sellers that do it.

PS if anyone has anything on my mostly ridiculous wantlist, I happily accept YSI options, mostly I just wanna hear them. it's been ruthlessly pared down to things that basically never get sold, so I never get emails.

Here's my seller profile: https://www.discogs.com/seller/akmonday/profile

Here's my mess: https://www.discogs.com/user/dinkytown/collection.

Wanted to get collection insurance, so had a go at cataloging a couple years ago and got through maybe C in rock/etc. and one box of singles before bailing. I don't have the patience to put a bright bare bulb on and look at the runout grooves for Humble Pie's third album to see which plant it was pressed at.

Now I just occasionally enter a record while listening, which makes it all the more futile, if I ever want to have a go at the rest.

Thanks akm, do you have a collection profile too?

"I don't have the patience to put a bright bare bulb on and look at the runout grooves for Humble Pie's third album to see which plant it was pressed at."

Major label albums from the 60s-70s in particular are such a chore to correctly add for exactly this reason. Sometimes runout isn't even enough to narrow it down (or it feels that way).

exactly. 77 variants of a record that (even today) is only worth $4. but my OCD won't let me just pick a close-enough option.

here's my very non-comprehensive work in progress - https://www.discogs.com/user/Emsworth/collection

oh god no, either do it right or don't at all!

xp

https://www.discogs.com/user/biznotic/collection

I've sorted this A-Z (I think), but this is about 90% of my vinyl, and about 50% of the CDs.

It's fun to check out other collections. Some nice stuff in there.

I highly recommend Discogs Enhancer Chrome extension.

https://www.discogs-enhancer.com/

Sleeve I checked your wantlist. I wish I had some of those Hurley rarities! And I wish I could help you out otherwise.

I wonder where anyone even finds cassettes NOT online... if a physical store even has cassettes they're common 80s titles or they're brand new indie titles. Never seen anything in between.

Wait, I lied I have some Swirlies cassettes I found in the wild. So besides that.

Oh wow I love it thank you for that tip! First thing I did was turn on the "everlasting collection" mode.

xp

That chrome extension is gold! The demand rating feature has already told me that I have on offer some EXTREMELY undesirable records

dang Citroën that is my kinda collection, nice

Evan the Hurley tapes I actually have on CDR (Hurley's homemade versions) but thank you! I try to be completist with him so I'd love OG tapes some day

honestly though the current World Situation is making me re-evaluate a lot of things including wantlists. I don't really "need" any of it.

likewise, Sleeve. looking through yours now, good stuff.

The demand rating feature has already told me that I have on offer some EXTREMELY undesirable records

if i understand the feature correctly, it means you have some records that are so desirable that everyone has them already! :)

Indeed, I read it wrong. Nevertheless I am ready to make DEALS on Leon Russell records.

Haven't finished up adding the last of the CDs. I converted to digital/lossless early on.

https://www.discogs.com/user/quartzcity/collection

https://www.discogs.com/user/flamingrev/collection

All of my vinyl. Never got around to adding CDs.

what's everyone's most rare, most treasured or most expensive item in their collection?

I have a copy of this, bought at a record fair for £2 in Bristol in 2000:
https://www.discogs.com/Suicide-Suicide/release/429836

Likewise picked this up for not much in the late 90s, there has been a real run on Fall records lately apparently:
https://www.discogs.com/The-Fall-The-Infotainment-Scan/release/469738

I treasure my box sets from the Vinyl On Demand label

for single LPs, 1st Jandek and 1st Sun City Girls are up there, also the 3rd Nurse With Wound LP

I used to have an original copy of Intersystems' "Free Psychedelic Poster Inside" but sold it, and kind of regret it

i posted this one before on some other thread but this is the most valuable thing that i've got. cost me 50p

https://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?searchtext=33CX+1399

Most valuable rock record i have would be this one...

https://www.discogs.com/Keith-Cross-Peter-Ross-Bored-Civilians/release/3223440

...but tragically my copy skips a bit on the first track :(

After that i guess it would be the Faith / Void album w/ the inserts

Most valuable 12" i have is NM copy of this, which again cost me 50p:

https://www.discogs.com/Freeez-Stay-Hot-Footing-It/release/350213

nah that's total bullshit, blatant lazy overgrading. I'd return it.

was considering that but it was from the UK and I'm in the US...the shipping is half the cost

harsh. I'd ask for a partial refund, then.

you know what's strange about this, of all the records I've ever bought online I've only had 3 that were clearly worse than their marked condition and all 3 of them were Underworld records

Let u know how i get on with the pink Rez VG+ i just ordered, lol. Their fancy new lithograph print of the thing pushed me!

I don't sell much, but more than one feedback thanked me for "conservative grading". i understand VG+ to mean looking and or sounding just a little worse than right out of the shrinkwrap (i.e, NM).

I've never been clear on how pressings that might be noisy to begin with factor into it.

what record was it?

haha, I nearly bought the pink Rez 12" this morning too! I have the official Cowgirl / Rez 12" so don't really need the pink rez, but that print made me want it. I also need a new copy of the Dirty 12". My copy looks perfect but sounds horrible.

also, on the UW merch tangent, could they have worse merch? The absolutely garbage "graphic design" they've been using is worse than amateur. Such a shame considering their connection to Tomato. I'm stunned at how incredibly shit their merch has become. Anyway, the music is what matters.

i like the pink tee! 25 squids plus shipping to Canada tho.............nah

it's Barking, sucks because that one is super limited, one of those albums where most available copies are shrinkwrapped ones for 5x MSRP. I guess the good thing is it's one of those albums where you can live with some noise since it's not exactly a subtle record. the only track it really bothers me on is "Louisiana". idk maybe I'll take it to the cleaner and see if that helps

totally agreed on the UW merch thing, it's weird b/c they have so many cool sleeve designs, like the gatefold OWB is breathtaking. then on the other hand you have Drift with a very visible Photoshop fail on the cover, and the boxset itself which just omits the photo entirely. like LCD Soundsystem's American Dream even when the thing's in your hands you can't believe that's the actual art and not a placeholder

Only just got around to starting this. Fun. Frustrating.

https://www.discogs.com/user/carrosdd/collection

― cooldix, Monday, 27 April 2020 16:19 (six months ago) link

I was looking back and feel bad I overlooked this collection. Great stuff! Lots of taste overlap. Some things jump out as "ilxor albums" to certain degrees.

Brings to mind how a few years ago I tried to buy Blue Nile's Hats off of a friend's MOM of all people. Not that it's unthinkable but I sincerely doubt she'd thought about that album in 20 years until that point. It made no sense sitting there in that bin of theirs. An industry friend gave it to her, she said. Still wouldn't give it up! That album has never really grabbed me the way I was hoping it would, but I thought I might come around sometime and it is pretty collectable AND this copy was mint. Oh well.

I still don't "get" The Blue Nile but ofc I have Rooftops in my collection due to ILM, found it cheap sometime in the late 00s

see also: Studio, Kelly Polar

I LOVE Studio. I very much get that one. But I don't "have", alas.

Thanks Evan! I’m not a prolific poster here, but I’ll admit to copping plenty of ilxor-bait - Blue Nile, Alabaster Deplume, 75 Dollar Bill, Gigi Masin, ECM stuff, for starters…

No Studio yet! But I keep buying D. Lissvik solo projects to fill that yawning gap.

Well Gigi Masin is another tip top favorite for me as well. Sometimes the hype is super justified!

OK getting a little worried about the market; worried that record shopping is going to be ridiculous moving forward.

I was looking at my collection on the discogs app which has the nice little feature of showing not only min/med/max prices of each album, but also shows you the price of the latest sale. Kind of neat so I kept clicking each one out of curiosity. Was a bit shocked to see that for like ~85%(?) of them the latest sale price matched (or was extremely close to) the literal max sale value. Example after example... it was incredible. Takeaway is that the averages prices for everything in every genre across the board are going to go way up. Brick and mortar stores that price based on discogs as gospel are going to just be silly... everything 2nd hand is going to be like $50 and up, but not because they're delusional but because they're savvy. The only stores that will be worth going to are the ones that are savvy but actually mindful about the important difference between online marketplace and local clientele.

We'll see.

Yay for my collection value though?

Yeah, the second hand vinyl market is crazy right now. The crazy and immediate price gouging when an artist dies or breaks up really bothers me. Even when i'm not adding stuff to my collection on discogs, I notice a daily increase in 'value'.

I've noticed that too, there are a lot of fairly obscure 70's and 80's albums that were routinely going for $20-30 back in 2018 but are now upwards of $70 and I'm starting to lose hope that reasonably priced copies are ever gonna show up again. otoh maybe the end of the pandemic will get people away from their stereos and quell the demand.

Basically, stuff that’s not common as dirt is going crazy. We’ve been asking “are we in a vinyl bubble” for at least a decade now, but this rapid inflation does feel like a huge bubble.

yep everything is a $20 record now, minimum

unless you go to stores that actually have a clue how inventory works. one of my local stores is actually looking for a bigger place!

I wonder if the "price history" tool is doing more harm than good. Sellers seem to be overreacting to the high price, thinking "well if one person paid that much maybe someone else will", or more accurately "maybe someone will pay 20%-50% more". I noticed the Sparks LP Hello Young Lovers was listed around $80 or so, then someone paid $110 for it, and now the only copy is listed at $250. cool economic ecosystem you got there

I mean that's what I was talking about, however the shocking development is that the higher price IS the accurate market price according to recent sales. That's why I'm begrudgingly forced to revise my long held view on these opportunistic vinyl sellers from "delusional" to "savvy" until this current value spike bubble bursts. Really difficult to fault someone for selling something at a price a buyer is willing to pay. Problem is we're at the beginning of that now. Median prices haven't updated yet because the mass rise in value is only a few sales deep on the majority of the examples in my own collection. But it's the case across the board, across genre. Vintage market looks like it's going to get very expensive once everyone catches on if sold prices continue to skyrocket, and all we'll be left with is the FOMO competition to buy the latest limited reissue or new release before it sells out and subsequently forever live at an inflated resale value.

well two things I suspect are driving that right now are 1) the pandemic, which is forcing people to take up insular and weird collectors' hobbies and 2) that lacquer factory burning down, which seems to have caused a shortage of new records, and from what I've heard it's taking albums up to 3 additional months to get pressed because there's such a backlog right now. which means things there's potentially a big market for can't get repressed - I can think of a lot of Bandcamp shit that would quickly sell out an additional run of 1000 or whatever but they're so backed up it's just not worth doing at the moment. so existing copies just go for 3-4x the original price and occasionally even sell which puts dollar signs in everyone's eyes.

Vintage market looks like it's going to get very expensive once everyone catches on if sold prices continue to skyrocket, and all we'll be left with is the FOMO competition to buy the latest limited reissue or new release before it sells out and subsequently forever live at an inflated resale value.

this feels otm. lately ive caught myself being tempted to pull the trigger on stuff for more than i want to pay, under the assumption that 5-10 years from now the market is only going to be more insane

...which of course becomes a self fulfilling prophecy

Yeah I've been resisting the urge to recalibrate what I find to be a comfortable price to pay for certain things. Too many variables to consider- rarity vs. general inflation vs. the market (covered above) vs. condition etc.

end of the day this is an pretty hot market right now so it seems inevitable that a bunch of pressing plants are gonna open up to ride the wave and perhaps even start undercutting each other. it might take a few years but I feel like there's too much money to be made right now for things to just...stay like this

Hello I still use discogs for cataloging my collection, indeed discogs still exists and has not imploded.

Come, look at all the plastic and junk I own

then show me your junk...

...

Brick and mortar stores that price based on discogs as gospel are going to just be silly... everything 2nd hand is going to be like $50 and up, but not because they're delusional but because they're savvy. The only stores that will be worth going to are the ones that are savvy but actually mindful about the important difference between online marketplace and local clientele.

this has absolutely held true, two years later. I'm finding the baseline price for your bog-standard 80's albums to be at a minimum $20, sometimes higher. Of course even new albums now seem to be priced at $39.99 half the time.

yep a used Gaucho was $20 at my local been-around-since-the-70s store the other day, we joked about it

it's probably gone now

i bought an album from a record store for $35 AUD yesterday that is normally $100+ when I see it at fairs - i think the store owner looked it up on discogs and saw “marketplace: 2 available from $30” so priced it based on that - if he had bothered to click through, the cheap one was badly damaged and the next one was $120

mentioned because discogs-influenced pricing at record stores is soooo boring and takes the fun out of it - so on the odd occasion a record slips through, it feels like a win

shops in more savvy markets (like the bay area) definitely price under discogs and ebay prices on the whole because they aren't stupid. I spent a lot of time in Rapid City SD over the last two years though and there were two record shops there; both with surprisingly good stock considering the location, but one in particular absolutely went with the highest prices on discogs for fucking everything. I mean, 80's issue Siouxsie records (which admittedly are kind of hard to find now) for $65.

I've been a little disappointed in my old boss from the shop I used to work at - he prices stuff 5-10 above discogs median with the thought that he can reduce aged inventory if need be and get away with better margins in the meantime, but it's deflating for consumers like me that are hip to actual going rates. Like, yes median discogs + shipping = comparable cost in the end but should go without saying you reward your in-store shoppers the ability to save hypothetical shipping fees to thereby facilitate more frequent visits. He's always been a bit too meticulous about margins at the detriment to a bigger picture strategy.

I will say that overall I've seen a little downtick in resale sold prices amongst stuff in my collection compared to my posts upthread from a couple years ago when people were pulling the trigger on really high sticker prices across the board. Hopefully things level off a little. Speaking about 2nd hand stuff specifically.