Your favourite lp color?
I like my onset of putrefaction
Pretty much anything clear
I really like crystal clear transparent records.
red looks baller as fuck
Goldish with bubblegum pink splatters.
>>50184881
shit
I want some in the style of those old soviet war era bootleg LPs from Russia where they had to use old x-ray sheets instead of vinyl and you're listening to music on a scan of someone else's skeleton.
At War With Tlhe Mystics is one light blue lp and one orange lp, both opaque.
A silly album to have on vinyl I know, but muh colors.
>>50184924
Here's an image.
I honestly dislike the gimmick of graphic vinyls. Just prefer it black.
Black you fucking plebs
>>50184727
>>50184858
i hate not seeing the groves of the vinyl, and its the worst on transparent and white vinyl.
>>50185060
How are colored vinyl gimmicky?
>>50185043
that is cool as shit
>>50185085
he said graphic not coloured
>>50185085
I don't mind colored. Some look great if it's a solid color. But when it's a mess of colors, it just looks like it was made in a Spin Art machine.
i have a few, these three are all on transparent wax which i fucking love.
>>50185060
Is a graphic vinyl like a picture disc?
>>50185148
another cool'n
>>50185154
yes.
Like >>50185043
>>50185194
This one looks like a bowling ball
>>50185204
I don't see why it looking like spinart or a bowling ball is bad as long as it doesn't affect sound quality like a picture disc.
>>50185230
it looks really cool when it's spinning. the worst colored wax i've ever had was a misfits live album someone gave me a while ago for a gift, it's on shitbrown wax.
>>50185230
>I don't see why it looking like spinart or a bowling ball is bad
In reality, there is nothing bad, really. I just don't like how they look.
>>50185204
those arent picture discs though, theyre actual xray film
i got this grey splattered Sgt Pepper record for like 10 bucks at my local store and found it going for like $130 on ebay when i looked it up
couldn't get a clear photo of it, but this EP has 6 songs on the A side then an etching on the B side. looks really nice,
>>50184688
Whatever fits the cover art the best, I hate when they do variants with random colors
>>50185382
etchings are cool man, what is it?
>>50185312
Still graphic vinyl though.
Black, why would I want anything else?
>>50185382
That looks so smooth. Better angle?
>>50185414
it's the front bottoms' rose EP. they recorded some old songs and released em as an EP. they're doing 3 more, all named after each band member's grandma. hope the rest are etched too.
Black
>>50185420
It's not even vinyl. And it's not graphic, as something that's graphic is visual art, and this was just a utilitarian scan used for medical purposes.
>>50185468
>implying you can't make an "utilitarian scan used for medical purposes" a visual art.
If a urinal has been called visual art, this can too.
>>50185439
here's a kinda better angle. it's really hard to get a good photo of it because there is a glare from the light off the wax
white recoreds are nice
>>50185528
I suppose someone theoretically COULD, but that's not what actually happened with the LPs we are discussing and you said were graphic vinyl. They didn't decide to put x-ray images onto stuff because they looked cool, they took the freaking x-ray sheets and made records out of them because they had nothing else. What about this aren't you getting? Are you just still arguing because you're compelled to?
>>50185553
Ayyy
I'd kill for this
I'll post a few of my favorites
I really like this one
I also dig etched vinyl
Another good one
>>50185649
yeah theses something cool about white vinyl. sometimes coloured stuff looks a bit tacky but white always looks nice
Transparent silver is really neat too
>>50185649
>>50185730
You guys got any love for cream? I love white, but a nice, flat, cream it's just gorgeous I think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brqZ6jZiOFE
>>50185805
Ive got this one which is creamy white w/ blue flecks
its like ice cream
>>50185528
So your plain black vinyl is also art.
>>50185805
it took me way too long to figure out the audio-technica lettering came from the slipmat below the record and wasn't some elaborate light installation above your record player...
light blue is nice too
>>50185827
tfw also have this
best album
>>50185880
Oh shit, all vinyl is graphic vinyl! Looks like this guy needs to throw out his whole record collection.
red
Black, it has better sound quality than colored vinyl. Nice black 180g vinyl will do me just fine thanks.
>>50185854
Ooh that's a nice one.
I noticed some people say they like etchings, this guys got a nice elaborate geometric pattern.
>>50186031
How does colored vinyl affect sound quality?
>>50186031
the colour of the vinyl is like the least important factor in sound quality tho
that copy of Pygmalion >>50185854
sounds way better than their other two albums Ive got on black, its just a better pressing
>>50186064
coloured has slightly higher surface noise
>>50186064
Black is "warmer" sounding. Duh. Nex you'll be asking how different colored LEDs can affect your PC's performance.
>>50186075
Why does it have slightly higher surface noise?
Seriously, look at this deep blue.
>>50186095
It doesn't
>>50186075
That's what I was referring to in regards to sound quality, the surface noise. I should have been clearer.
>>50186105
deep blue feelings
>>50186119
Nice baseless assumption but Europe's largest pressing plant says it does:
>Note: Although our colored vinyl has a very high quality standard, audio pressed on non-black vinyl is more susceptible to higher noise levels and/or clicks in the lead-in and lead-out grooves or on quiet parts of the recording.
http://www.recordindustry.com/vinyl/
>>50186095
because the carbon black used to dye vinyl black also acts as a lubricant reducing friction at the stylus
>>50186152
But why is it more susceptible?
>>50186169
Imperfections in the dye
>>50186168
Thank you. Why does the carbon black have this property and not whatever dye is used for other colors of vinyl?
Another etched Side
My favourite's Jeff Rosenstock - I look like shit, bad morning edition
It's opaque yellow with brown splatters, the ugliest record I own
>>50186193
carbon is be slippery, its just a property of the substance. graphite is used as a lubricant in some applications. I guess the other dyes they use just dont have the same properties.
apparently different colours have different levels of surface noise, I saw a chart from a record pressing company which sets them out, black is the quietest, white is the noisiest of the solid colours and I think transparent is noisier still, if I remember right.
but like I said, the overall quality of the production, mastering and pressing is much more important, those two
>>50185854
>>50185730
are some of the best sounding records I have
>>50185880
You could make that statement, but that doesn't make it graphic.
>>50185984
don't be silly
>>50186350
So, you made that statement about the x-rays, and now you're using the logic that shut you down as a defense? I take it you have finally accepted being patently wrong and are adopting the correct stance to keep yourself from being too heavily browbeaten?
You get that the only reason he said black could be graphic was to point out the flaw in your reasoning in >>50185528
right?
colour vinyl is cool but it feels like there are more colour vinyll than black vinyll nowadays
>>50186673
>Graphic - of or relating to visual art, especially involving drawing, engraving, or lettering.
The record used the medium of an actual x-ray film in order to press their record. The film includes the skull, making it a graphic of the record. I don't see how this is different as if they decide to print a record on let say newspaper, it's still a graphic. There is still a visual in it, and the visual is the skull.
These Chelsea Wolfe ones are pretty cool. You can't see the Unkown Rooms too well due to the lighting, but it has black swirls going through it.
>>50186817
Visual ART. As in something manufactured by an artist to be visual art. Are you illiterate? Probably, because you just argued against your own point a minute ago to a guy you didn't understand was just making a point about what your logic would imply out of the base instinct to keep being defensive.
Please, fall back on your "oh, but someone could just say it's visual art" argument despite the fact that no one did so someone can point out that if that's the case you could say the same about black vinyl, then you can change your mind again, and we can keep this merry-go-round of idocy spinning.
>>50187028
Point I want to make is that, art is subjective, and there is still a graphic on the record, and the graphic is the skull. Some people would say "neat, they decided to put an x-ray of a person on their record instead of using regular vinyl" and others would say "they couldn't find anything so they just printed it on x-ray film". One views it as art, other views it as just a record on an other medium. If I wear to wear a shirt with a film on it, is it still considered a graphic t-shirt? Yes it is. If I were to wear a shirt that is black is it considered a graphic t-shirt? No. Graphic doesn't only apply to art, but applies to the objects it is applied to.
What you know about that yung special edition TKOL clear vinyl brah?
some splatters are nice even though they might look like someone puked blood
I don't regularly collect colored vinyl, but I got these for free while interning at Ninja Tune, so I'm pretty happy about that.
>>50187616
why do you have nail polish
>>50187649
My housemate drunkenly did them for me
I was drunk too, so yolo
>>50187378
Fuck dude :( I want that.
I have a blue Elvis vinyl that I've never given a listen. I might spin it tonight tho, this thread has inspired me.
The transparent deep blue that Dummy came in looks really slick, I don't have it with me to take any pictures though.
>>50187616
>just laying them out on the table
>this faggot probably keeps them stored flat and stacked
>>50188279
Nope, they're in an IKEA box when I'm not using. Just put them out flat for taking the picture.
>faggot
lol
>people saying anything but black
it even glows under a fluorescent light!
anything translucent, working on obtaining the other two parts. I also have that Deerhoof flexibook but I don't feel like taking a bunch of pictures of every single page
this one is one-sided translucent grey/black mix, and the B side has a silkscreen print of the image you see here on it.
>also I don't know why but I love one-sided black records. seeing the sheen of the grooveless side is wonderful for some reason.
its so nice
>>50185827
tfw UK Vinyl Nerd member?
