Vinyl Blogs To Love: Bad Record Covers

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This totally bewildering album cover (ok, it’s the cover for a SINGLE, not a full-length album, but STILL…) come by way of the absolutely fabulous Bad Record Covers site, which has plenty of visual atrocities on display for your amusement. Behold:

This HAS to be some kind of ironic statement about the futility of war, right? Because otherwise it’s likely some kind of sick nationalistic drum beating exercise designed to whip people into a frenzy of…well, ok, settle down. It’s probably nothing aside from a really awful idea for a record jacket.

I hope.

The real point of all of this is to send you over to Bad Album Covers to get your fill of awfulness for the day. Some vinyl blogs might consider a site like this “the competition” but as far as Turntabling goes, there can NEVER be too many bad album cover detectives working out there. It’s a big, scary world filled with millions of intimidating discount record bins. Who could get through them all? Not me.

–Joe Wallace

Back from Capricon 2012

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And what a conventional it was! Many thanks to all who stopped by the Turntabling booth at Capricon 32 in Wheeling, Illinois. We return to our regular updates, bad album covers and vinyl reviews tomorrow.

In the meantime, Turntabling is scheduled for a set of other appearances including these:

Days of the Dead in Atlanta, March 9 – 11.

After Days of the Dead, Turntabling appears at back-t0-back horror festivals: Horrorhound Weekend, March 23-25 in Columbus Ohio. and at Cinema Wasteland March 30th, 31st and April 1st, 2012 in Strongsville, Ohio.

The Turntabling Collection, a nice big selection of rare vinyl records and CDs curated by Turntabling’s Joe Wallace will be at each show-we sell portions of the collection to fund the site and keep it going. Thank you for your continued support!

Turntabling at Capricon 32 February 9-12, 2012

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Join Turntabling at Capricon 32, which runs Thursday, February 9 through Sunday February 12, 2012 at the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel, 601 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Wheeling, Illinois.

We’ll be posting updates from the show on the Turntabling Facebook page, so if you can’t be there in person, join Turntabling on Facebook.

The Turntabling Collection will be there, featuring hundreds of rare, hard-to-find, and just plain cool vinyl records and CDs from literally all over the world; Italy, Japan, Germany, France, and of course the usual USA-based suspects we all know and love.

Looking for rare Doctor Who vinyl? Star Wars soundtracks? Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy vinyl? The Johnny YesNo soundtrack by Cabaret Voltaire? It’s all in the Turntabling collection and all for sale. All proceeds from the record sales go toward supporting Turntabling.net, and your support is definitely appreciated.

Turntabling also sponsors an after-convention party on Saturday night, February 11. DJ Paisley Babylon spins the most insane mix of tunes ever, and more importantly there is FREE ALCOHOL.

Did we mention the free alcohol?

There are plenty of really rare and obscure CD and vinyl titles on sale this time…do NOT miss the Turntabling booth at Capricon 32!

 

How To Grade Vinyl Records: Another Point of View

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Recently I posted an introductory post about grading vinyl records. A lot of people don’t care about vinyl grades; “Good”, “Very Good”, Near Mint” and other ratings don’t mean anything to some as they prefer just to pull the album out of the sleeve and run an eyeball over it.

Which is great until it’s time to buy a record sight unseen on eBay, Discogs.com or elsewhere, and then suddenly those vinyl grading terms mean a hell of a lot more.

This video is one point of view on grading vinyl records, and the background music is fun, too. There is a great amount of personal preference built in to grading vinyl records, but once you get used to the grading systems and know what to look for this whole topic is much easier to deal with. Again, some of this is really down to personal preference–how much wear is acceptable to you?

–Joe Wallace