It’s not all crochet, gardening and loud cotton prints here at SarahStar-land, y’know! Welcome to my other world, of Vintage Vinyl.
Not that it was in any way ‘vintage’ when I bought it: these LPs all date from my teens and twenties, when vinyl was pretty much the only choice. Apart from cassettes of course, but no self-respecting music lover would buy them! My collection spans the 60s, 70s, and 80s and all kinds of rock, with a few forays into folk and electronica, as you’d expect from a an old ex-goth hippie chick such as myself! 
But, much-loved though they were in their day, I’ve been carting these albums around for (*mumbles incoherantly*) years now, and this summer I decided the time had come to let them go. Not absolutely everything, but a good 100 or so, most of which I either have on CD or would never listen to again anyway.
Boy, have I learned A LOT about the vintage vinyl business in the last few months! Cleaning, grading, labels, matrix codes… and I thought I’d just take a few snaps and bung them out there!
Going through all these old records, some of which I haven’t even looked at in 20 years, has been rather fun, though. They knew how to do album art back in the 70s, didn’t they?
And I have to wonder whether there are some records I actually bought more for their covers than the music? – I’m pretty sure Kari-Ann Muller’s electric blue eyeshadow and sexy silver platforms were what made Roxy Music’s first album a ‘Must-Have’, for one!
Ah, the pop of the needle hitting the disc; the anticipatory crackle; the depth of the sound… and oh yeah, the skips, jumps, and surface hiss! The horror of knocking the needle and dragging a great scratch across your brand new, limited-release Led Zeppelin! Taping 2p pieces to your stylus to stop that 12″ single from getting stuck…. Ah, the joys of Vintage Vinyl!
Wishing you all a very GROOVY week 🙂
(PS If you’d like to see my LPs for sale, please do visit my eBay profile).
