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Trug

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Who has never seen or owned a vynyl record. My grand kids had never seen one until I was explaining what music was like in my youth and I played an LP for them yesterday.
 
I have got to admit that I never use my deck these days. It is far easier to listen to my phone or laptop but the quality is not there.
But come on you younger ones (under 35) - Have you listened to vynyl or tape?
You would never believe the trouble us oldies went to to listen to the charts if we missed it on the telly. Taping Radio 1 or Caroline or Luxembourg on a reel to reel, cassette or eight track. More crackling than rice krispies.
 
Trug said:
I have got to admit that I never use my deck these days. It is far easier to listen to my phone or laptop but the quality is not there.
But come on you younger ones (under 35) - Have you listened to vynyl or tape?
You would never believe the trouble us oldies went to to listen to the charts if we missed it on the telly. Taping Radio 1 or Caroline or Luxembourg on a reel to reel, cassette or eight track. More crackling than rice krispies.
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My son plays vinyl a lot, he's 23

In his bedroom he has an old 80's cassette player, looks cool, he has made a cassette so bought a player & wanted the oldest retro he could buy
 
Fearnleys was a great shop to trawl for hard to find records. He used to let is have some of the advertising stuff as well when he was finished with.
The Record Shop owned by Dean just across from the town hall was great for a mooch about too.
 
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When at Haverton Hill training school, I use to catch my second bus home from work from outside a record shop on the Cleveland Centre. I would be in there every Thursday with my wage packet - now kids certainly won't know what one of them is.
 
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Yep -Alan Fearnleys and there was a shop on Corporation road opposite the Town Hall.
There was a shop in Parly road that got me all the back copies of Creedence- this was about 1983/4
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Austin's Records on Parliament Road. He used to work in Hamilton's opposite Town Hall prior opening his own. In 1970 Hamilton's was fabulous as good if not better than Fearnley's. They both played in Rivers Invitation at one point. Fearnley on Guitar and Austin on Congas. They were cracking local band.
 
I was a regular at Hamiltons and Dean Wycherley's The Record Shop, late 70s/early 80s. Hamiltons during that period felt quite intimidating, it was always full of punks and if you wanted anything 'straight' (too poppy) you got the feeling they were sneering! So while I loved people like the Pistols, Siouxsie, The Undertones etc and also the lighter end of the genre (I remember going through a period of loving the Boomtown Rats for some reason!), if I wanted something like ELO or Queen (both of which I still harbour a soft spot for), I'd decamp to Dean's. That man was amazing really. He had such immense physical challenges but his mind was like an encyclopaedia.
 
Those ‘top hits‘ albums.
The one’s done as cover versions?

It wasn’t all about the music .......
More famously, perhaps, they had underdressed young ladies on the cover 😍

Plugged a gap whilst waiting for the next edition of the Littlewoods Catalogue :eek:
 
Bought myself a Jukebox this year. Just wished I could afford a real Wurlitzer but then again it would mean taking the middle out of a my singles and then again where can you get spiders from to replace the middles these days. Got a few rare and expensive singles so NO WAY will I damage them.
 
I probably spend a couple of hundred quid a month on records (both new and second hand) and have had the study specifically fitted out to hold all my record collection.

I spend a couple of hours a week on Discogs, and have a great record shop in my town that I used to spend hours browsing in (now tend to just get him to order stuff for me). I still love Spotify and use it daily, but there's also a real pleasure in sitting down in your arm chair and sticking a record on.
 
I used to buy a lot from the place in the forbes building. Where on earth are mine now.....
 
Norman_Conquest said:
When at Haverton Hill training school, I use to catch my second bus home from work from outside a record shop on the Cleveland Centre. I would be in there every Thursday with my wage packet - now kids certainly won't know what one of them is.
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I worked above that shop and my bus stop home was right outside. Spent many lunchtimes and passed away time when I'd missed the bus in there. Record player (deck to the young trendies) was never off once back home.
 
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