LP’s arrived

Two of my “music” eBay purchaces came in the mail today! 🙂 These are the first “LP” purchase I’ve done in many years. My last would have been in 1989 or 1990, when I switched to buying CD’s.

It’s nearly like when I was a teen, and I brought home a new record, only these are old friends I’ve been seeking. In the package was Styx, 4 albums. I have two of them on CD, I didn’t own any, and bought two CD’s earlier this year, used. Getting the LP’s in the mail is great. The CD size is plainly yukky in comparison. Absolutely it’s the same front and back, but the SIZE makes all the difference. Artwork went with records since … well whenever it was that became the norm. Even today artwork is being brought back to CD’s with the inclusion of little CD-Case Size booklets. Re-issue of old LP’s onto CD for the second or third time often brings more artwork to the buyer. But it’s still LITTLE.

Give me the Visual Appeal that a Visual Spatial would love: 12″ records. (It’s the same thing that drove me to lick my chops at the giant laserdisc movie format years ago, but pricing kept me at bay.)

So sticking with this format means: I can only go out and buy old music if I can find it, on LP. I can’t find everything on LP, only what has survived the years and is offered up for sale at a price I can afford. I know that some artists do press LP’s today. I don’t buy much “modern” music, just some. I say “modern” with the meaning of “this current decade” mostly. Like this year and the last 10 to 15 years, right when I started buying CD’s but fell off the wagon of buying much, and cut back to just listening to what I had or nothing. So the likelyhood of current artists I like pressing LP’s in attainable formats is slim. I’m less interested in it than things from the 20’s through the 80’s anyhow.

I’m listening to Asia’s first album first. I didn’t have that one. Now I have two of it. I got one on eBay, then found another auction with all 3 Asia albums for cheap. So I got it as well. I had their second album, so have two of that adding it in to the new “used” LP set. Only the third album stands as a single copy. I’ll look for another Astra album and then sell it with the other two as a trio-Asia set sometime.

That’s the bliss of this whole operation. I can get albums and fill out my collection, and there is a market for me to sell of the ones I don’t want to keep, the doubles I get in deals, etc. 🙂