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Yeah- but with music of this depth and calibre, do you really want to listen to it from piss PC speakers + missing most of the low end anyway?

Bollocks to that-

Get out there and buy the real thing, cheapskates (as it'll do you good to get out a bit anyway)! Look, if it aids your cause at all, buy it on secondhand vinyl, so that the evil record companies won't benfit.

Cheers,

Mark

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When Bucks Fizz’s tour bus crashed they all survived. When Metallica's bus crashed Cliff Burton died. Why?

Pardon me sir...
I do own Pink Floyd CD's. I am merely suggesting this so that our friend may sample the Floyd Works, and decide for himself which album he'd like to start off with.
Now of course, if you have a CD creator program, you can then play this music, on the stereo system of your choice. Ahhh...but with Floyd, whether it be radio/or amphitheatre, it all sounds good.

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Negative infinity man.

Speak for yourself, I'm the most optimistic person I know. Cheer up though man, it's not all that bad

Thank you all for your great advice.
I have bought a "Dark side of the Moon" LP
for only 2 Quid o_O
and will be recieving it shortly. Hurray for me.

If audiogalaxy was still around i would have used that aeon's ago.
But im just not patient enough to use kazaa.
& i'm not a "he".

Thank's

And I'm not a psychic. Nice choice

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Negative infinity man.

Speak for yourself, I'm the most optimistic person I know. Cheer up though man, it's not all that bad

Congratulations, Idioteque, excellent choice. Welcome to the Floyd universe!

Let us know your impressions about Dark Side.

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"Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk." Tom Waits

Brilliant, just brilliant. The only difference between your first Floyd purchase and mine is that mine was 3 quid.

Good on you + enjoy + welcome!

Mark

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When Bucks Fizz’s tour bus crashed they all survived. When Metallica's bus crashed Cliff Burton died. Why?

Do they still press "new" vinyl of albums like DSOTM, Piper, etc? The reason I ask is that all the vinyl I have is secondhand and I fear that if I actually play it, it would end up ruined in one way or another. (Not to mention the fact that I did play WYWH and it sounded horrible with all the scratches.) But I'd like to hear to it on vinyl.

By the way, Dark Side, good choice, if it hooks you the way it hooked me it won't be long now before you buy all of their albums, even the bad ones.

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stchrissie is not me.

I suppose it's the story of everyone of us.

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"Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk." Tom Waits

Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd

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Capitalism sucks.

My old DSOTM vinyl after almost 30 years of service is so scratched I'm planning to buy it on cd.
idioteque, if you'll enjoy it, your next should be Meddle.

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If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

NNJ: Capitol stopped pressing vinyl back in 1992.
I was lucky enough to buy a mint DSOTM from that last pressing, which is as new as I can get it. And it sound incredibly good. I only play it on special occasions, though, because it IS mint, after all.
You can find reletively clean versions of DSOTM, WYWH, and The Wall, because they sold in mass numbers.
Buy one, get a record player if needed, and bask in the glory of vinyl. You'll love it.

Vinyl is great, all that snap, crackle and pop really enhances the listening experience I always find.

I have several on vinyl, but as I said I have tried to listen to WYWH, and it was scratched and warped beyond recognition. And I am quite afraid to try to play DSOTM and others because I am afraid the same fate will befall them. I guess I'l have to buy duplicates, just to play it safe.

By the way, just ordered a NM TFC from ebay.

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stchrissie is not me.

The only way you can warp a record is to expose it to heat. Playing a record won't warp it, and playing a record doesen't put scratches on it (as long as you aren't pulling a DJ-type thing and working at the wheels of steel.... )

All of those problems are in the handling of the record, which should always be by the edges of the vinyl.