Wots yer mostest batturd to shit lp?

I don’t have a single one. All mine are perfect, but I honestly don’t think I own any albums I bought used. If there is the odd one, I’ve forgotten about it, or hardly ever play it. I think I’ve always been put off buying used albums from charity shops or private sellers because i expected them to be battered. Conversely buying used form record shops has always seemed expensive for something used. I have to admit I’ve never liked shopping in used record shops either. They almost always have a “smell”, the staff usually aren’t my kind of people and there almost always awful music playing too loud.

Oh, and there are usually scruffy, smelly customers in raincoats trying to invade my space. I don’t like 2nd hand record shops, I guess.

Battered by my turntable as I'd never do this myself (cough, splutter)!!!

Eagles The Long Road on original vinyl. About to place on the LP12 and the effin' thing slipped out of my hand and the grooved area caught the top of the LP12 spindle, which has a sharp-edged 'dimple' in the top. Scratched the hell out of one track. I've been meaning to get the CD but haven't bothered as it's not an album I play much, but the original was a pressie, so maybe I should try to find a nice condition original LP to replace it...

Chances are a 60s record will be visibly or invisibly worn especially Beatles and Stones. Genuine minters are expensive but I see thousands asked for Tourquise LZ 1 or solid triangle DSOTM in far less than optimal shape. As far as Beatles and Stones are concerned the answer was the Mono boxes from a decade ago. Now fetching a pretty penny themselves. The Stones mono box was reissued but on coloured vinyl, far from desirable for the money.

This is The Long Run and I got as a Christmas present not long after release. I've not owned an LP12 since 1998 and this record was accidentally damaged forty years or so ago, so that tells you how long it's been. I've just not bothered to get the CD which will be a LOT cheaper than a vinyl in any condition.

As for led Zep, it appears I got rid of my orange-green LZ1, plumb III and IV as the CD's 'sounded' so much better to me. the copy of IV had been played with a no-bias-correction Garrard 2025TC and the left channel seemed slightly shaved off in the high frequencies. Sure the CD shows mixing decisions more (harmonica coming in and out on 'Levee Breaks' and maybe an edit too especially as the sound changes) which you don't notice on the vinyl. Those Decca pressings can sound a bit 'ripe' as a breed (In the Region of The Summer Stars by The Enid is another one and the later EMI cut and the band remastered CD of a few years back are much better, the CD incredibly good I thought).

The 70s Neumann cuts of Decca recordings are better as they didn't need to feck around with the eq and so on on those crusty old 60s cutting lathes, but all the 'audiophiles' prefer the 60s cuts - stories to tell there but best not to.