Not Much Out There

George Grand
George Grand Posts: 12,258
edited November 2010 in Music & Movies
Times are lean. This morning all I found was a mono copy of the Doors "Strange Days".
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    edited November 2010
    This past Sunday my wife and I were in Fells Point in Baltimore. We wanted to go on board a visiting Norwegian frigate. After a nice tour of the ship we walked around just meandering. We went into a new record store and browsed around. Holy Cow! Vinyl has hit the big time. Regular condition records selling for $30.00 each! Granted they had some nice ones, but nothing under $18.00.
    Your listings are indeed the best audio bargain around for record collectors.
    Ken
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited November 2010
    well the strange days 180gram goes for 15 bucks used so I guess its still a GG Gem.

    RT1
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited November 2010
    Kenneth Swauger wrote: »
    This past Sunday my wife and I were in Fells Point in Baltimore. We wanted to go on board a visiting Norwegian frigate. After a nice tour of the ship we walked around just meandering. We went into a new record store and browsed around. Holy Cow! Vinyl has hit the big time. Regular condition records selling for $30.00 each! Granted they had some nice ones, but nothing under $18.00.
    Your listings are indeed the best audio bargain around for record collectors.
    Ken

    Soundgarden has no qualms about charging top dollar. There used to be a couple of antique stores on Broadway where you could find some older stuff for reasonable prices, but I've not been in them in eons. Now, unless it's at the Goodwill, I'm down to Record and Tape Traders as far as resonable vinyl goes.
    Wristwatch--->Crisco
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited November 2010
    Kenneth Swauger wrote: »
    This past Sunday my wife and I were in Fells Point in Baltimore. We wanted to go on board a visiting Norwegian frigate. After a nice tour of the ship we walked around just meandering. We went into a new record store and browsed around. Holy Cow! Vinyl has hit the big time. Regular condition records selling for $30.00 each! Granted they had some nice ones, but nothing under $18.00.
    Your listings are indeed the best audio bargain around for record collectors.
    Ken

    OOOO! Which frigate was it?












    As far as the thread...the only record player I have is in an RCA console stereo and it needs help. I gotta get it refurbed but only guy around is in N.E. Philly.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    edited November 2010
    Actually a good place to find good vinyl at reasonable prices is the CD Depot near Joppa and Loch Raven. Nice place for CDs and vinyl and DVDs.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    edited November 2010
    It was the Fridjof Nansen, actually the second ship in the Norwegian Navy to have that name. Named after an explorer and worth reading about, he must have been quite a wild man.
    The tour was first rate, it began on the helicopter deck (they haven't received their chopper yet so the hold was filled with work-out gear). Then they took us to the mess hall, recreation area (pretty nice big screen and sound gear), bridge (very cool!), engineering department with first rate fire control capability (3D CAD for all the ship's operation), past the engine room and back to the hangar deck. Neat as a pin, talk about ship shape, couldn't have been nicer. Of course there was an armed crewman on the hanger deck, security cameras everywhere and three sailors trailing behind the group.
    They had just come off duty guarding against Somalian pirates. Fun day!
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited November 2010
    There is a guy here in town that has a shop and sells vinyl, CDs cassettes, comics, etc (and dabbles in coins). He is VERY PROUD of his LPs and asks anywhere between $15-30 for an album in average to good shape. GGs A&Bs. I've bought a couple from him that I could not find anwhere else...before he raised his prices so high...but for the most part I will buy a CD before I spend that amount for a used LP. BTW...there is rarely anyone in his shop...and if they are they are usually dealing with coins.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited November 2010
    Kenneth Swauger wrote: »
    It was the Fridjof Nansen, actually the second ship in the Norwegian Navy to have that name. Named after an explorer and worth reading about, he must have been quite a wild man.
    The tour was first rate, it began on the helicopter deck (they haven't received their chopper yet so the hold was filled with work-out gear). Then they took us to the mess hall, recreation area (pretty nice big screen and sound gear), bridge (very cool!), engineering department with first rate fire control capability (3D CAD for all the ship's operation), past the engine room and back to the hangar deck. Neat as a pin, talk about ship shape, couldn't have been nicer. Of course there was an armed crewman on the hanger deck, security cameras everywhere and three sailors trailing behind the group.
    They had just come off duty guarding against Somalian pirates. Fun day!

    No way! That's awesome! I did work on the prototype mock up for that ship when I was still at Lockheed! My name is on the manifests as one of the responsible engineers for the bid project. Way cool, dude! I'm surprised they let you walk through more sensitive parts of the ship. If you did get in to the CIC, you got a look at the AEGIS weapons system that not that many people outside of the Navy actually get to see in any detail aside from approved photographs.

    And yeah, they are quite neat and orderly. They were fairly easy to work with and the Norwegian crews took to training with the system pretty well. The only thing that sucked was I was never lucky enough to get to go to Norway. The ships were built in Spain anyway so if I did get on shakedowns and sea trials, it would have been out of Spain anyhow.

    Anyhow, glad you got to see it! That ship is state of the art from hull design to it's integration systems. They dropped some coin on those ships and got a pretty good setup in the end. I do believe that the Norwegians are last on the list to get the NH90 helicopter that will be on those ships. They should see new deliveries early next year if NHIndustries are still on schedule with production.

    BTW, the hull number on that ship should be F310.



    To add to the thread, aside from Goodwill and such, George is the sole source of decent vinyl in the area that I know of since places like TUNES closed down.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    edited November 2010
    That is really cool. Our tour guide said they'd be getting their chopper soon and working on anti-sub defense. All of the stations on the bridge were mounted on spring coils for shock absorbing. The engineering room could control any major function of the ship. The 3D cad image showed the complete image of the ship and could double for the bridge. We didn't see any of the missile control or radar tracking rooms, of course.
    It uses two gas turbines as the main engines and has two additional diesel engines. I imagine in fleet operation there's a floating gas station to refuel. Yes, he mentioned that it was four years old and built in Spain. Our guide manned the starboard 50 and showed it to us, all perfectly clean. It was scheduled to be in B-more for eight days, so it could be around until next Monday. You should try and see it. It's heading back to Norway after here.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited November 2010
    Kenneth Swauger wrote: »
    Your listings are indeed the best audio bargain around for record collectors.
    Ken

    What a shot in the arm! Thanks Ken, tonight I'm drinking, screw the doctors.

    I've been trying to tell everybody that Sounds Grand Audio & Vinyl Emporium (YOUR vinyl emporium) is Boss-A, but it's tough. You da man.


    One of the very first things I definitely remember "being there" for, was when my grandfather took me to see a French cruiser that was parked either on the Brooklyn or Manhattan waterfront. Your 1954-55 time frame. Man did we watch a lot of his home movies from that day. Me being held by this sailor, me on top of some of the gun barrels. Me being held by another sailor. Then me being held by another sailor. They had white beret type hats with red poms on top.

    The Doors "Strange Days" in mono is $600 book. The boys from Bayonne did me right today.
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