if its good and it plays with out skipping or a lot of background noise, Im cool with it...it can look like it was used to play ultimate frisbee on a gravel road, but if it plays nicely, I dont care.
I'd say i have maybe 2000 odd 7"s at vg-nm, i have a box of ones below that quality.
Weirdly, since becoming a Microwave dj i will now just wait for a mint or near mint to come up before buying rather than get a vg. Before i used to get so amped up if i found out about a new tune i would just get whatever i could at the time.
I love 45's -but god people treat them like crap! most of mine look like someone dragged them behind a car - but I have a few minty ones i'm almost afraid to play.
For play purposes it has to be VG+ or better but for archival-only purposes the labels just have to be clean. I'll buy cracked or worse schitt if the label is clean.
If you have more then five 45s, then you're probably spanning the condition range already - mine are anywhere from VG through to M-
Like a lot of dudes on here, I'm much more interested in how the record sounds as opposed to how it looks. I have a copy of Barbara Lynn's 'I'm a good woman' that looks absolutely fucked, and plays pretty strong VG+ with one or two pops - and that does me fine.
Also, I prefer big holes to small ones
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Over the last 12 months or so I've been trying to make my 45 collection VG++/Excellent or better. I am in the process of upgrading anything that doesn't make the cut. I am probably 80% there. I will say that buying 45s the 2nd time around to mint up isn't quite as satisfying as finding them originally. It's not easy or cheap with some of the rarer titles which were around VG.
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A few have noisy noisy starts, but not for so long that it interferes with the song.
It seems recently that the price difference between an NM and a VG copy of a sought-after 45 is hardly anything these days.
If a NM copy goes for $500, a VG will sell for $450.
Cosine on this.
Mine are between G+ and Minty. I need more of them in my life.
They are so beautiful, but so horrible to flick through. There's so little info on them but the labels are so pretty.
People selfishly write their goddamn boring-ass names on them, and often there's not even a year printed on them.
But when you find the only worthwhile track of an album on 7 you could be tempted into believing there is a God.
European ones with high quality paper pic sleeves are a special favourite.
Weirdly, since becoming a Microwave dj i will now just wait for a mint or near mint to come up before buying rather than get a vg. Before i used to get so amped up if i found out about a new tune i would just get whatever i could at the time.
and very diverse african,latin that are vg for the most part
the only problem is i have a tower of quebec 45'S to listen to
i've found great stuff but the task is daunting because of the format
45 chud navigating is easier on LP
It varies, which is what you would expect when you buy them from different places at different times in any random condition.
any reason(s) in particular why this was big in Europe but doesn't really seem to have ever been a thing in Uhmerrica?
except for that Charles Sheffield
If I had more money I could see myself collecting alt. pic sleeves of classiques:
etc
If it don't play, I don't pay.
A little surface noise doesn't bother me...but only to a point.
If the snaps & pops are singing backup...I'll deal with that.
But if they're singing lead and drowning out the rest of the band...time to use it as a wall ornament. Or just throw the damn thing away.
Like a lot of dudes on here, I'm much more interested in how the record sounds as opposed to how it looks. I have a copy of Barbara Lynn's 'I'm a good woman' that looks absolutely fucked, and plays pretty strong VG+ with one or two pops - and that does me fine.
Also, I prefer big holes to small ones
I'll buy (and play out) cracked records- if they sound good enough.