Worth every penny.Waxy said:I treated myself and paid £100 for a mint copy of Storm In Heaven by Verve.
Was it worth it? You betcha.
Worth every penny.Waxy said:I treated myself and paid £100 for a mint copy of Storm In Heaven by Verve.
Was it worth it? You betcha.
Though I'm happy I bought mine in 1993.Jim_W said:Worth every penny.Waxy said:I treated myself and paid £100 for a mint copy of Storm In Heaven by Verve.
Was it worth it? You betcha.
I'm sorry if I gave you the impression that there was a magic formula which would bring scratched, warped records with inner-groove distortion back to life: there isn't. You can't get rid of those things of coursse; you can though clean dirty, gunked-up records and glue and clear tape sleeves back into some sort of respectability.There are various methods of cleaning records, from the professional machines to a bit of liquid soap and lukewarm water...youtube will help you here. Once I've cleaned mine I use a spare stylus (I have loads of 'em for different record conditions) and see what happens; the sylus will further help to remove some gunk from the grooves. Maybe give it another clean, play it again and, again, see what happens. You're either left with a record that is ok to play or one that is beyond help. this is really only appropriate for rare records rather than big-selling items where you can easily find multiple copies and choose a decent VG/EX/Mint copy.iandb1970 said:Tell me about the restoring of battered records? I am interested in finding out more.Jim_W said:Having said that I do collect records, but my collection is only a result of having bought the records to listen to the music; this has often meant buying less than pristine copies of rare records and buffing them up so they're listenable. Some of my favourite lps are a bit battered, but for me that's part and parcel of collecting and, if I'm honest, I enjoy the challenge of restoring impossibly rare records that have been bashed about a bit or neglected; sometimes they're beyond repair of course or I'll need to find a better copy as and when. Anyway, I like the ruin in things, but many don't. Fair enough.
Oh yes, I understand that, especially where records are concerned. There's a million of 'em I'm still hoping to find...cheap. Hope you like it when you finally get hold of it; better still, I hope you love it and sleep with it close by!! I would!BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW said:It's a compilation album. I only know a couple of tracks, but you know what it's like, you kind of get obsessed with owning something that you've never seen.