Apparently Five Below is now carrying clearance vinyl at about $10 a pop. I looked on Reddit and saw these as potential titles at your local store: Maggie Rogers The Electric Mayhem (Muppets) Post Malone The Mandalorian Season 2 Moana 2 Marcus Mumford Services Horizons The Bob's Burgers Movie (with the unappreciated classic "My Butt Has A Fever") West Side Story Jack Johnson Kacey Musgraves - Star Crossed Dawn FM Turning Red Deadpool & Wolverine Guardians of the Galaxy vol 1 and 3 Zootopia Encanto Enchanted Soul Wish And here's an image of what one of the displays looks like...
Top vinyl white whales: Stuff that has been pressed, but costs more than I want to pay The Maine - Lovely Little Lonely Augustana - Can't Love, Can't Hurt Yellowcard - Paper Walls The Academy Is - Fast Times at Barrington High Matt Nathanson - Last of the Great Pretenders The Wallflowers - Breach The New Frontiers - Mending Will Hoge - Draw the Curtains The Damnwells - One Last Century Feeder - Pushing the Senses Butch Walker - I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart The Ataris - So Long, Astoria Stuff that's never been pressed Cary Brothers - Who You Are The Wallflowers - Rebel, Sweetheart Butch Walker - Left of Self-Centered Mat Kearney - Nothing Left to Lose SafetySuit - Life Left to Go Chad Perrone - Release/Wake Matt Nathanson - Beneath These Fireworks Sheryl Crow - Shery Crow/The Globe Sessions Logan Brill - Shuteye Donovan Woods - The Widowmaker Augustana - All the Stars and Boulevards Better Than Ezra - Before the Robots
White Whales: The Ataris - So Long, Astoria Cassino - Bottlenecker The Night Game - S/T Yellowcard - Paper Walls Foxes - All I Need JamisonParker - Notes and Photographs The Movielife - 40 Hour Train Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony Days Away - Mapping an Invisible World
Mat Kearney - Nothing Left to Lose I'm really hoping this gets pressed for his 20 year tour this summer
Update on this: I bought it to try it out. Background: Current turntable is still the LP-120. When we moved I put the record player in our TV room and changed the speakers from the ones it had been attached to before in the condo, to the room's new Sonos speakers. The built-in phono preamp meant I had to turn the line-in level up to almost 9 to have the record sound at the right volume and I could hear more distortion than usual. Day one of the new preamp and it's almost night and day. Line-in level set to 4 gives stronger volume, zero distortion. Only a couple plays on it but my impressions: Cleaner sound - Played two punk albums before and after and could immediately tell teh difference, especially in choruses. More headroom - This could be totally subjective Better dynamic range - again, this felt like almost night and day. Big fan after maybe three album plays ... especially at this price point and not wanting to buy a new record player. I feel like I can get a lot more out of this one and the next upgrade, when it wears out, would be a cartridge, not an entire player like I was wondering if I would have to before. Anyway, this gets my two thumbs up. Will report back in as I get more use out of it. Schiit Audio: Audio Products Made in USA
I'd buy basically everything on Craig's list I don't have. But I think Sycamore Meadows is my current #1 want.
Yeah, lots here I want as well: The Maine - Lovely Little Lonely Augustana - Can't Love, Can't Hurt Yellowcard - Paper Walls Butch Walker - I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart Butch Walker - Left of Self-Centered As well as Sycamore Meadows
I've got Sycamore, fortunately for me. I could splurge on I Liked It Better... at its current prices, but the Sycamore Meadows prices are insane. Glad I bought that one early when I started collecting back in 2014.
Not mentioned yet, but Lucky Boys Confusion's Throwing The Game has long been on my "wish they'd press" list too.
Wants That Have Not Been Pressed Chevelle - Vena Sera Children 18:3 - Any of their first three T&N albums Eve 6 - It's All In Your Head Goldfinger - Open Your Eyes Goldfinger - Disconnection Notice Hangnail - S/T Hangnail - Facing Changes MxPx - Before Everything and After (standalone version) Pain - Wonderful Beef Pain - Full Speed Ahead Reel Big Fish - We're Not Happy Til You're Not Happy Relient K - K Is For Karaoke Available Wants (someone sell me these) Goldfinger - The Knife Goldfinger - Never Look Back
The Sidekicks - Weight Of Air I don’t think one’s turned up on Discogs in two years. It’s the only one of their albums I don’t own. As far as things that haven’t been pressed, my two biggest wants are Plain White T’s “Stop” and Over It’s “Silverstrand”.
I have many a few people are asking for, because I acquired them when they were $20 and available for 5+ years. It's interesting to see what goes out of print and becomes hard to find/desirable.
I’ve got a personal rule that I won’t pay over $100 for anything, but I’ve broken that rule slightly for a couple of things (I think So Long Astoria and 40 Hour Train were each just over that), but I’ve got a few things that were cheap and now are a lot less cheap (finding the 2LP Midtown records at Hot Topic for $7 each years ago or the 180G blue Futures for I think $15 from SRC come to mind).