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that may have happened prior to my attendance. I attended the show on the first day of the event, but that morning had been for record collector club members only. I suspect that means all the big ticket wheeling and dealing might have happened before I got there. I got there 15 minutes after it opened for the general public.

Go for Elvis Presley!

Got one coming up in March. Always find great deals! Awesome shirt by the way

I'm a huge sixties fan! Also fifties and seventies.

We do have record collection tours on Patreon. Tours of everything, actually. We go through the entire media collection item by item each month for about an hour, so there are around five hours of tours currently on our Patreon page that unlock at five dollars. People constantly ask for collection tours, and that’s not what we want to focus of the main channel to be, so that’s been our compromise.

I understand.

So far everything plays fine, including the Vanilla Fudge album that I was most concerned about. Some of them have a bit of noise due to needle wear and scuffs and don't sound quite as clean as I would prefer, but that's OK, I can always look for better, cleaner copies at future shows.

Yes to both! Very laid back vibe.

Thanks, Mr. Mason! I loved making this video, and getting to share some of my passion for music with the viewer makes me really happy. I think my love for the vinyl era really comes through. I know what you mean about it being the music more than the actual records for you. So many of these albums are not available on CD and are now only streaming or digital, which is a low down dirty shame.Thanks for the positive feedback, it means more than you could possibly know, especially when I step outside of the movie talk that a lot of people want from this channel.

MAAAAAAYBE. It's the power given to me by the dark forces of rock and roll.

Thanks, Dave! Yes, that was just some stuff I put together in Garage Band playing under the footage. None of it is me, it's all just loops I threw together.

Though vinyl can be space-consuming, the discovery aspect of crate diving for vinyl is one of the most rewarding and fun aspects of the hobby for me. The Star Wars posters used to be in a different room and have now been moved to the blue room. They've popped up in videos before, but they've only been in their current location for a couple of weeks.

I'm not as young as I look, but I've always been like this. In high school, I was the guy hitting thrift stores looking for Simon and Garfunkel, Dylan, and Monkees records instead of listening to Nirvana and Pearl Jam.

@@CerealAtMidnight finally read this in January'21. thanks.

It's true! It was that soundtrack that spurred me to seek out Vanilla Fudge.

I've been collecting vinyl for 25 years and it seems like the prices of vintage vinyl are finally starting to drop back to what they were in the nineties when I started. Not everyone has gotten that memo, though, and I'm still seeing a lot of places pricing used vinyl at 10 dollars and going up from there. I think the prices will continue to drop because the youth/hipster market seems to prefer buying brand new pressings on pretty colored vinyl at places like Urban Outfitters. I didn't see a lot of people my age or younger (and I'm not young) at this show looking for vinyl, though I did see a few. Most everyone was in their fifties or sixties. I think the idea of crate diving to look for cool, obscure, or less-marketable albums is going back to being a niche thing, and I'm cool with that. I've built most of my record collection by hitting thrift stores, yard sales, and shows like this one, digging and hunting for deals.

@@CerealAtMidnight I'm glad to hear it's dropping in some areas. I'm seeing inventory start to pile up here so I figure it's only a matter of time. Same for new records. Local stores are holding a ton in unsold record store day exclusives, special color variants, etc. As a store owner I'd be sweating about that. You want a good selection but you also need it to move. Those RSD releases cost them a lot.

For the life of me, I don't understand how record store day is still a thing. I understand why it started, and it's a great thing in principle: getting people to support local record stores, putting money into their community and keeping record labels afloat in a digital age, etc, but it seems to have been completely swallowed by the commercial machine. The variants and exclusives are maddening! It was only a matter of time before that model became to big to be sustainable. I don't know if we're there yet, but I agree with what you're saying about more and more inventory just sitting there. This past record store day, there was an exclusive vinyl pressing of the Knight Rider TV soundtrack. As cool as that is, what's the market for something like that? Well, outside of me, because I need that record...

@@CerealAtMidnight I hear ya. We have a giant record store here that I don't visit often because they are generally quite expensive. I went a few months ago for the first time in a year and their in-store RSD inventory alone must have been in the tens of thousands of dollars...including about 8 copies of that Knight Rider soundtrack and about 8-10 of Creepozoids. Fun soundtracks but....c'mon...

There's also a movie called "You're a Big Boy Now" from 1966 which is directed by Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather) that the Lovin' Spoonful composed the entire soundtrack for.

That's funny about In My Room! It's emo, for sure, but I can think of a lot of fifties songs that are just as mopey. In fact, my dad had an entire 8 track album called "Tear Jerkers" when I was a kid and it was nothing but fifties ballads of teen angst. There's even a Sinatra song called "I'll Never Smile Again." If that ain't emo, I don't know what is! But Brian Wilson certainly seemed to excel at writing sad songs with beautiful melodies, that's for sure.

I keep an eye on the Facebook pages for local record societies and I set reminders in my iphone calendar to remind me when they get close. There's a record show in Atlanta on September 15th!

I haven't spun that album yet, so I'll keep my expectations lowered. But any Jerry Lee is fine with me, even if it's live.

Yeah, that's a lot to ask for old vinyl. Seems like the hipster vinyl trend may have peaked and now it's coming back down to earth a bit. Hopefully, at least.

Not sure you know what the word "eclectic" means, Mike. They're not obscure; eclectic means varied, covering a wide range of genres, artists, and styles. But if you want to push the point, I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in a crowd who could name a single song by the majority of these albums. "Vanilla who? Al Kooper? The guy who sings School's Out?"

@@CerealAtMidnight I sell vinyl, these are generic, mainstream titles, well known and broadly similar. Eclectic would be a bunch that includes , for example - Chilean techno, Mid west 70's polka, Beatles, Monteverdi vespers, early Jamaican Ska, Balinese Gamelan rarieties, Estonian Death Metal, Berio,...............