Definitive Audiophile pressings

AnthonyI said:
A good annual, bi-annual purge is a good thing ;)

"Collecting" on price is a really deep hole, you're always going to find that deal, especially lately with how Cogs is inflating AAA and audiophile pressings, but the effort and time it takes to go the flipping route if that's your intention isn't very appealing to me, I really do hate the selling process, lol.

I'm with @Joe Mac, over the years I've changed my mentality of what and why I buy anything, I've said it a million times, Quality over Quantity, and even then It needs to be something I would listen to or have some deep connection with. I still enjoy crate digging and buying used over scouring Cogs for something, don't get me wrong, I still buy on Cogs and eBay, but I'm usually looking for something specific. New releases are always a crap shoot and I tend to see what others who enjoy the same type of music think before pulling the trigger, or sample it streaming, but I'm in no way ever looking to jump on the variant just in case it ends up being valuable...........good ole' black vinyl is just fine and if I get lucky, I get lucky.

The biggest plus in my opinion is that I spend more time listening and less time shopping ;)
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Yeah I’ll be honest a lot of my “new” right now is either a new repress of an old album or the latest release from an artist I already collect. I’m more willing in that scenario to take a flyer unheard because I already know I like the artist. Plus with just that I’ve been feeling a little drowned in buys so
I’m struggling to make the mental space for sampling anything that’s genuinely new, never mind buying it!
 
Grab those Talk Talk while you still can 🥳
Joe Mac said:
Yeah I mean I buy new releases that I hadn’t heard speculatively too. Generally it’s based off a strong review from a trusted site/publication or a recommendation from someone who knows my taste so it’s not a complete shot in the dark but still. Before the pandemic I got better at streaming 2/3 times first but the loss of the commute has led to that happening less often.

I do also love the AP and MoFi end of things but they rarely press something that genuinely excites me to be honest, but when they do I’m all over it.

I suppose what I was getting at was that if I saw an AP or a MoFi or a limited press of something I wasn’t keen on, or was at best lukewarm/unsure on, I’d not buy it just because it was a “good investment”, I’d leave it for someone else to love it instead.
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AnthonyI said:
A good annual, bi-annual purge is a good thing ;)

"Collecting" on price is a really deep hole, you're always going to find that deal, especially lately with how Cogs is inflating AAA and audiophile pressings, but the effort and time it takes to go the flipping route if that's your intention isn't very appealing to me, I really do hate the selling process, lol.

I'm with @Joe Mac, over the years I've changed my mentality of what and why I buy anything, I've said it a million times, Quality over Quantity, and even then It needs to be something I would listen to or have some deep connection with. I still enjoy crate digging and buying used over scouring Cogs for something, don't get me wrong, I still buy on Cogs and eBay, but I'm usually looking for something specific. New releases are always a crap shoot and I tend to see what others who enjoy the same type of music think before pulling the trigger, or sample it streaming, but I'm in no way ever looking to jump on the variant just in case it ends up being valuable...........good ole' black vinyl is just fine and if I get lucky, I get lucky.

The biggest plus in my opinion is that I spend more time listening and less time shopping ;)
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My problem lately is I've been going quality AND quantity haha. Working on getting back to the basics though and only buying albums I know I'll spin a lot. Moved my set up to my sitting room yesterday (no TV in there) and am working on making that more of a listening room/reading room. I think that'll get me listening more and buying less especially with my high res streaming in there now.
 
MikeH said:
My problem lately is I've been going quality AND quantity haha.
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Ya, and some of the threads in this forum don't help either, lol. I have to fight the urge myself more than I should when things pop up around here, it's a challenge, but it's also a great source of information..........just in case you need it :)
 
Joe Mac said:
Cheers to that, the list of the things I want is near endless 😂
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Same, same. I'm somewhat thankful the discogs wantlist feature is such trash. "HEY SOMEONE HAS A COPY OF EARTHLING, YOU WANT IT? IT'S 300 EUROS WITH A 250 EURO SHIPPING FEE"

Imagine if you could tell the thing to only show you offers that ship within your own country? Or within a specific price range? I'd be fucking broke AF
 
AnthonyI said:
Ya, and some of the threads in this forum don't help either, lol. I have to fight the urge myself more than I should when things pop up around here, it's a challenge, but it's also a great source of information..........just in case you need it :)
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Yep. It didn’t help that I recently went through nearly all of the Rhino pressings on discogs to pick out ones I liked and could still get for cheap…
 
yukbon said:
Same, same. I'm somewhat thankful the discogs wantlist feature is such trash. "HEY SOMEONE HAS A COPY OF EARTHLING, YOU WANT IT? IT'S 300 EUROS WITH A 250 EURO SHIPPING FEE"

Imagine if you could tell the thing to only show you offers that ship within your own country? Or within a specific price range? I'd be fucking broke AF
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My favorite is the “good deal” banner they add to stuff that’s like $500 and came out 2 weeks ago.
 
yukbon said:
Same, same. I'm somewhat thankful the discogs wantlist feature is such trash. "HEY SOMEONE HAS A COPY OF EARTHLING, YOU WANT IT? IT'S 300 EUROS WITH A 250 EURO SHIPPING FEE"

Imagine if you could tell the thing to only show you offers that ship within your own country? Or within a specific price range? I'd be fucking broke AF
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I have often wondered why this feature doesn't exist.

99% of what it shows me is just mad money or in a different country. Even more annoying is the odd occasion that I find something affordable that I am after here in the UK but they clearly have not grasped the new shipping feature as it states "no shipping to the UK".....even though its a UK based seller.
 
MikeH said:
Yep. It didn’t help that I recently went through nearly all of the Rhino pressings on discogs to pick out ones I liked and could still get for cheap…
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Let's see if this helps :)
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Selaws said:
I have often wondered why this feature doesn't exist.

99% of what it shows me is just mad money or in a different country. Even more annoying is the odd occasion that I find something affordable that I am after here in the UK but they clearly have not grasped the new shipping feature as it states "no shipping to the UK".....even though its a UK based seller.
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honestly this wouldn't even matter if you could set price limits on what you want. if i have a budget of $75 i'm willing to drop on, whatever, porno for pyros' or soul coughing's first albums, IDGAF if it's 50 for the record and 25 for shipping, but to just show me every copy that's for sale at any price? seriously no effort put into it at all.
 
yukbon said:
honestly this wouldn't even matter if you could set price limits on what you want. if i have a budget of $75 i'm willing to drop on, whatever, porno for pyros' or soul coughing's first albums, IDGAF if it's 50 for the record and 25 for shipping, but to just show me every copy that's for sale at any price? seriously no effort put into it at all.
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Discogs doesn’t seem to want to invest in making the platform better really. The app is so godawful (I only use it to scan barcodes really). They probably make a ton of money without reinvesting any of it since they know they pretty much have a monopoly.
 
MikeH said:
Discogs doesn’t seem to want to invest in making the platform better really. The app is so godawful (I only use it to scan barcodes really). They probably make a ton of money without reinvesting any of it since they know they pretty much have a monopoly.
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Why invest money in a better platform or even try to develop it in house when instead you can troll honest contributors in the submission comments for not using colour [colour] or ordering their photographs slightly, and inconsequentially, out of the deigned order.
 
I'm a tiny bit surprised someone hasn't tried to build a marketplace that takes data exports from Discogs for set-up. It's such a bad marketplace that I'd think someone would see dollar signs and go for it, but maybe that market is still too small to justify. It's a data monopoly for sure right now

I'll say I definitely keep a smaller wantlist than I might otherwise to avoid getting too many worthless notifications. It's still not bad for rarities but I struggle to keep my more common wants on there given the spam that comes from it, and the slew of out of region sellers who I probably wouldn't buy from...though Ebay isn't any better really on that.
 
JonnyH said:
You can use discops. You pick, say record X.
You tell discops how much you're willing to pay. Once the price drops to or below that level you get a notification from discops.
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Discops is still quite useful, but less so with the limitations and forced alert renewing. I've been debating donating just for its help in securing some super hard to find items.

As a note for anyone using it, if you haven't done so, you need to register and update your alerts from time to time or they expire
 
waruv said:
I'm a tiny bit surprised someone hasn't tried to build a marketplace that takes data exports from Discogs for set-up. It's such a bad marketplace that I'd think someone would see dollar signs and go for it, but maybe that market is still too small to justify. It's a data monopoly for sure right now

I'll say I definitely keep a smaller wantlist than I might otherwise to avoid getting too many worthless notifications. It's still not bad for rarities but I struggle to keep my more common wants on there given the spam that comes from it, and the slew of out of region sellers who I probably wouldn't buy from...though Ebay isn't any better really on that.
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I believe their API restricts this type of use, so you'd have to do manual export & import and most users are really resistant to that kind of involvement.
 
jamieanderson1968 said:
I just want to be able to set some sellers to ignore. I hate that half to three quarters of my "new" items email are sellers just relisting the same items every freakin day.
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This happened a ton with MoFi listings on discogs lately. One account was just spamming the newly listed albums every day to try to get to the top of the email want lists.
 
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