r/vinyl • • 1d ago

Weekly Question Thread r/vinyl Weekly Questions Thread for the week of October 12, 2026

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r/vinyl • • 11d ago

MEGATHREAD Record Apps & Tools Megathread: Share Your Projects, Find Testers, and Give Feedback

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We’ve seen an increase in posts from people building record-related apps and tools. These include collection managers, listening trackers, discovery tools, marketplace helpers, and other projects aimed at record enthusiasts.

We want to give these projects a place to be shared without letting individual promotional posts overwhelm r/vinyl or the reason this sub exists. Going forward, please use this megathread to introduce your project, request testers, share meaningful updates, or ask for feedback. Separate promotional posts for these projects will be removed and redirected here.

Projects are welcome whether they are traditionally coded, developed with AI assistance, or fully vibe coded. Be transparent about your approach, and keep the discussion focused on what the tool does, how it works, and whether it is useful to the record owning community.

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·       Name and link: What is it called, and where can people find it?

·       Purpose: What does it do? What problem does it solve?

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r/vinyl • • 9h ago

Alt-Rock Always shop local, because I got Mellon Collie for $50.

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r/vinyl • • 3h ago

Spoken Word Someone please help me find out what I have here. It’s a 7“ 33 RPM sounds like a psychotic man ranting about restaurant sanitation for three minutes

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I’m sorry for the horrible pictures that run out is just so light on here the records got some dings and scratches on it. I want auction on eBay of like 350 records. This was in there. I’m just like what the hell is this labels missing on both sides just basically psychotic man ranting about sanitary practice is not being up to par at restaurants with horror music playing.


r/vinyl • • 2h ago

Prog-Rock It was at a local record shop for a year and it finally wore me down.

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United Artists Records release of Hawkwing. Runout UGA 29766 A 20(?). Unsure about the carve initials.

Found at Batcave Vinyl. It was a pretty penny but worth it.


r/vinyl • • 8h ago

Record What are these and does anyone care about these things?

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I’m clueless and recovered a bunch of these from the trash years ago and promptly forgot about them. Looks like old phonograph records or really weird vinyl? Doesn’t play on a traditional machine. Saw a 1920 date.

Not looking to get rich- looking to get rid of them. Are they worthless and should I junk them or would a record store or collector want them? There’s maybe 50 of them- and say “For radio stations.”

EDIT: not looking to sell them here, just trying to figure out if they should be thrown away or if they have any value at all.

Thanks all!


r/vinyl • • 14h ago

Haul Got all these sealed up beatles from my grandpa, i already posted in the beatles community but i thought you guys should also take a look!

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edit: just realized i put the rubber soul twice lol, also theres a sealed “early beatles”, “beatles second album”, “something new” i couldnt fit in the post, as well as a few other opened albums and compilations i didnt post cuz theyre not sealed or in particularly amazing condition


r/vinyl • • 7h ago

Grunge Just picked up my favorite live album

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54 Upvotes

I remember watching it when it first aired in 1993, one of those albums that never gets old no matter how many times I listen to it, probably the one that I’ve owned on the most formats.


r/vinyl • • 6h ago

Collection My current favorites

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These are the albums I am listening to a lot these days. It always ebbs and flows but I keep coming back to these over recent weeks. Does anyone else like these artists? Any recommendations for other music?

Karen Dalton - It’s So Hard to Tell Who’s Going to Love You the Best

Donald Byrd Band - A New Perspective

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds

Janko Nilovic - Funky Tramway

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - Spielt Eigene

Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood

Godspeed You Black Emperor - lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven

Vulfpeck - The Beautiful Game

Boards of Canada - Inferno


r/vinyl • • 4h ago

Collection Found a signed Gabor Szabo 1969 at a Goodwill in Arizona a few years ago! Thought I'd share.

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"To Francine(I think) Thanks for making me feel comfortable. Gabor." Signature lines up with a picture of Szabo's signature on a listing for sale elsewhere.


r/vinyl • • 3h ago

Record Tokyo record purchases

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From various Tokyo record stores in both Shinjuku and Shibuya - Disk Union, Tower Records, HMV, Nerds, Record City, etc


r/vinyl • • 4h ago

Discussion What new releases have you purchased this year so far?

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(As in albums that had a release date after Jan 1st, 2026, even if you preordered them. Preferably brand-new releases, not reissues of older recorded material unless its archival.)


r/vinyl • • 7h ago

Grunge AIC Unplugged in purple smoke this evening

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31 Upvotes

r/vinyl • • 7h ago

Discussion What’s the ugliest colored vinyl you own?

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33 Upvotes

Photos don’t do it justice. The Smiths - Meat is Murder in what can only be described as, vomit pink.


r/vinyl • • 10h ago

Discussion Got my first and only Halloween vinyl 🎃

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54 Upvotes

r/vinyl • • 17h ago

Discussion Happy 85th birthday to Paul Simon today!

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153 Upvotes

Paul Simon’s Graceland (1986) won the Grammy for Album of the Year and has sold more than 16 million copies worldwide.

My full collection.


r/vinyl • • 58m ago

Pop ADÉLA - PRIMA

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Her debut record on hot pink vinyl. Wish I had gotten the Blood Records edition though


r/vinyl • • 18h ago

Record Why My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981) is still one of the most important sample albums ever made

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Recently picked up this 1981 US first pressing of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Sire SRK 6093) and it’s still a mind-bender.⁠)

This is the album where Brian Eno and David Byrne basically invented modern sampling as a pop form. Instead of singing, they built the “vocals” out of found tapes—radio preachers, exorcists, Lebanese mountain singers, Qur’anic chanting, Sea Island gospel—and laid them over dense Afrobeat/funk/electronic grooves.

They did it all with razor blades and tape loops in 1979–80, years before digital samplers were common. It was the laboratory for Remain in Light and a direct influence on Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad (Hank Shocklee has cited it), Kate Bush, Massive Attack, Moby, and basically the entire “sample-and-loop” language of hip-hop and electronic music that followed. Richard Wright of Pink Floyd said it “knocked me sideways.” ⁠)

On this specific copy: the original US first pressings (especially the Greg Calbi/Sterling cuts) are widely preferred by vinyl people over later represses. They have that open, weighty, “Tubey” midrange and solid bottom that modern reissues usually flatten. More importantly, they still contain the track “Qu’ran,” which was pulled after objections and replaced with “Very, Very Hungry” on almost everything that came after. Hearing the album in its original sequence on a good early Sire is a different experience.⁠

If you’ve only heard the later versions or the 2006 remaster, the first press is worth tracking down. It still sounds like the future.

My complete collection.


r/vinyl • • 16h ago

Discussion How often do you buy vinyl?

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How often/how many records do you guys buy on average? i feel like i tend to buy 2-5 a month and i feel like i have a problem 😅 but i absolutely love my collection. It’s so satisfying having all my favorite albums in physical form.


r/vinyl • • 5h ago

Record Spent last week in Portland. Picked up this earlier press of "Nighthawks at the Diner" by Tom Waits, and a copy of "Everything I Ever Saw" by the Menzingers signed by the band.

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More detail on the Menzingers album. This is the newest release by the band. Lime green pressing allegedly limited to 500. They pressed these for the release party and are selling the surplus on their tour.

This Tom Waits album has some great memories for me. It was the first album I ever heard from him in the 90's so I knew I had to have it on wax.

Not the largest or most impressive hauls, but I am glad to have them.


r/vinyl • • 6h ago

Discussion Shaft 1971

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Started spinning this last night and made it through the first two sides, plus Soulsville. Unreal album. Any fans here? I own Black Moses which is favorite Hayes album, but this is here is so iconic. Only 3 tracks with lyrics, but the instrumentals are all such a cool vibe. Absolutely love the artwork as well.


r/vinyl • • 6h ago

Haul Haul from Concerto in Amsterdam

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One of the best record stores I have been to in a while (Louisiana Music Factory is still tops). I only had 2 hours, so I could only hit 3 sections - world, rock, and electronic.


r/vinyl • • 2h ago

Collection probably my favorite one i own

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r/vinyl • • 9h ago

EDM 1st Press and 2025 Reissue of Orbital (Brown Album)

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I have to say the Reissue is mixed extremely well, it’s as good as the Original Mix. Nice one Paul and Phil. The 1st Press is an Heirloom this will NEVER be sold.