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I'm remembering things like the bonus stuff that came with the STAR WARS double LP - track sheet, colour painting poster.
CE3K - 7' inch single version of the main theme.
TESB - stapled colour booklet of movie stills within the LP fold-out.
STAR TREK - TMP - colour poster of the new Enterprise and the dust jacket had colour stills and all the aliens.
What do you recall?
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Jun 24, 2011 - 1:14 PM
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Rozsaphile
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Pops, ticks, scratches, sludge, dirt, off-center pressings, inner-groove distortion, pre- and post-echo, warping, limited dynamics, repeated trips to exchange defective discs . . .
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Jun 24, 2011 - 1:37 PM
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Spymaster
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Pops, ticks, scratches, sludge, dirt, off-center pressings, inner-groove distortion, pre- and post-echo, warping, limited dynamics, repeated trips to exchange defective discs . . .
LOL
God I remember having to take my Star Trek II LP back to the store 3 times because every copy I tried skipped at one particular point in the Main Title - it was a crescendo about 2 minutes into the track. Every copy they tested in the store jumped too! Eventually I had to stick blu-tac onto the stylus to keep the thing from jumping off!
I agree though, the presentation was often divine! I miss laserdiscs for the same reason - very, very poor quality compared to DVD, and even worse compared to blu-ray, but some of those sets... wow. I still have about 50 just because they're so nice to look at!
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Jun 24, 2011 - 3:36 PM
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Ron Pulliam
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Pops, ticks, scratches, sludge, dirt, off-center pressings, inner-groove distortion, pre- and post-echo, warping, limited dynamics, repeated trips to exchange defective discs . . .
For me these were the great exception to the rule. Warmer sound, of course.
But the hiss, pops, tics, etc., were integral to the experience when that is all we had.
Holding those albums...smelling the new on some of them...the age on others...and manically trying to keep the dust off them made it all worthwhile.
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Yeah when you slid out the LP from my first copy of The Good the Bad and The Ugly after the record came desert dust, a hanging rope and about 200,000 dollars in gold coins. And the cover had a little mini-sized sheepskin waistcoat that wrapped around it.
You just dont those kind of feel-a-round extras with CDs these days!!
Kinda curious Bill, mine didn't have the sheepskin waistcoat, do you know if it's possible to pick up a second hand copy complete with waistcoat somewhere?
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All those shops are gone now! You'll be lucky.
However, my Wild Bunch LP came with a bag of silver washers and a machine gun tripod.
And a smile to last you all day. 
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But the hiss, pops, tics, etc., were integral to the experience when that is all we had.
And lets not forget that CDs can also get scratches, amass dirt and a few have become unplayable from "CD rot" (something that never afflicted LPs). Heck, some of our CDs were mastered from LPs!
I loved the Varese Sarabande and Intrada LPs from the 80s, with their glossy covers (even major labels didn't spring for that), handsome, colorful artwork and copious stills on the back cover. They were almost like souvenir programs. Some LP releases even came with posters, like Star Trek: The Motion Picture, King Kong, The Deep (The Deep was also pressed on transparent blue vinyl -- how cool is that?).
Someday when I get around to it I'm going to mount my favorite LP sleeves on the wall.
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Jun 24, 2011 - 6:25 PM
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RM Eastman
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Pops, ticks, scratches, sludge, dirt, off-center pressings, inner-groove distortion, pre- and post-echo, warping, limited dynamics, repeated trips to exchange defective discs . . .
Ditto!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hated Them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I just love the cover art. Half the time that's what I use on the ipod instead of the newfangled CD cover. On occasion I either have no choice, or the only difference is that the Intrada logo is on it.
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The SUPERMAN double-LP set was a gem, wasn't it? My other favorite LPs were CARRIE, the James Bond series, SILENT RUNNING, and the STAR TREK movies.
I had a turntable with a cassette recorder built in, and I used to extend the life of my LPs by taping them and just playing the cassettes. Good times.
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Remember LPs? I buy more LPs than CDs. I prefer analog over digital, although I love the convenience of CDs.
Me, too.
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Jun 24, 2011 - 8:37 PM
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TominAtl
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Pops, ticks, scratches, sludge, dirt, off-center pressings, inner-groove distortion, pre- and post-echo, warping, limited dynamics, repeated trips to exchange defective discs . . .
LOL. You took ALL of the words right out of my mouth.
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