Korean Records?

msg
msg Posts: 10,020
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This may not be the place for this question, but I figure more vinyl people will see it here than under Music & Movies

In looking for some older releases on vinyl, I'm coming up short. In some cases, I'm not sure the album will be re-released on vinyl, and so I come across some listings on Ebay with Korean distribution, as in, made in Korea.

Any of you vinyl fiends got any info on the quality and such of these records? Info in general? Just wondering whether they're okay, or something to steer clear of.
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    I thought this was a thread about the most consecutive dictators with really bad haircuts.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,416
    I have the first five Garth Brooks LP's, two of which came from Korea. Good stuff.
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,020
    afterburnt wrote: »
    I thought this was a thread about the most consecutive dictators with really bad haircuts.
    I'm embarrassed to admit that I chuckled at this. bad me.
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    I have the first five Garth Brooks LP's, two of which came from Korea. Good stuff.
    okay, cool.
    man, it's nuts out there for some of this stuff, isn't it?
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,416
    Agreed. The only collection that cost me more to acquire was the MoFi Beatles box set
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,020
    was that a mono set?
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  • tophatjohnny
    tophatjohnny Posts: 4,182
    I swore this was the cable section..?? Just kidding. Man I hope I never...I mean never get the vinyl itch. Pray for me please. :) keiko was and still is the man for that.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,416
    msg wrote: »
    was that a mono set?
    Stereo
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,962
    Korean records ?? Do they blow up once the needle hits the 3rd song ?
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  • RamZet
    RamZet Posts: 792
    Samsung is Korean
    Kia/Hyundai is Korean
    LG is Korean

    They (can) make really nice, high quality stuff.
    I would give it a shot, what do you have to lose?
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,020
    $50? :)
    I don't have anything against Korean stuff at all. I just have no sense of what's what in vinyl, seeing prices all over the place, often limited availability for older rare stuff, and with no knowledge of who has the ability to press what, and from what original format. I'm gathering a few things now a couple more weeks in. Discogs seems like a good resource for history. I see a lot of stuff out there unofficially released, sometimes labeled "import", questionable quality - surface marks, mold lines, etc., with vinyl forum/board comments talking about how some releases were just cheaply re-pressed, ripped from cd, etc.? Isn't that a not-so-good thing for records?

    Just soaking up knowledge, perhaps even some of it incorrect.
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