What should I look for when purchasing a quality album?

The cheapest option is to buy bulk. Estate sales, shopgoodwill are fun ways to find albums. You’d spend 30 bucks for 10 or so albums, and some will sure be good quality. Used record stores are the second best option. All my favorite and best sounding records cost less than $10.

There are labels I avoid and some that I trust but it might be subjective. CBS, Decca, Columbia, Atlantic, PolyGram, Jet are all decent

I usually end up keeping 1 out of 5 those albums. I clean them, with a VPI vacuum cleaner, put them in a new sleeve, etc. But, overall, am I a slob? Yes. Do I have $30+ for an album? No.

I absolutely love to find these gems, with notes on the album, sometimes a signature, receipt from 1972. This is why I stick to vinyl, I want to listen to music made in 1972 on a medium from 1972.

thankfully we learned that I am the only slob here, still - I am not sure I would touch thecarpathian's anally inspected items

time out!