Lies, Or Not, That You Were Told About Vinyl:

[rif]

A lie of omission: no one told me I had to purchase a record cleaning system.

[Grainger49]

You don't if you live in a clean room and buy only new LPs (that's a lie, new LPs are dirty).

[Chris]

Dammit G, there you go lyin' again.... haha

[caffeinator]

I think I'll have to give a plus one to the urban legend about backwards recorded messages on (at the time) LP's.

When I was in college, a group came to campus to speak on the subject, purporting to have no agenda other than to expose something inexplicable and suspicious, but in the presentation, their Christian affiliation became apparent - not that there's anything wrong with that - it just struck me as incongruous that a group who advertised themselves as exposing some Machiavellian recording-company scheme would themselves be shying from full disclosure in the process.

They had made posters advertising the event using a popular image of Jim Morrison (the one from the book jacket of "No One Here Gets Out Alive").  We took down all the posters we could find, and made a giant Jim Morrison collage in our dorm.  I'm not sure, but if you looked at it backwards, I think it read "evila tuO steG ereH enO oN" - clearly including the word evil, more or less - so I guess they may have been right after all.

[4krow]

 I just gotta comment about subliminal messages in this post. Lets think about what is being done by some salesman/vendor who 'suggests' but not directly, any number of things that we might doubt about something that we don't fully understand. Just to make sure that everything is going to work swimmingly, here comes a little gadget that fixes a problem not thought of before. It can be true or not, that is not so important as making your audiophile assured that a ghostly little demon has been put back in the box.

  On another subliminal note, I recently purchased a 'sleep machine'. It makes soothing noise that may help you clear your mind and go to sleep. HA! not me, I ANALIZE the sound (subliminally of course), and start to hear what sounds like voices just below the noise. Worse yet, with a little imagination, I hear "guilty, guilty" just under the noise. "Hello, is Dr. Mindblone there please? Yes, I need an emergency appointment." Baby steps, baby steps.

[earwaxxer]

This is  funny! But I am as SERIOUS AS A HEART ATTACK that us philes of the day were VERY religious about not playing our albums more often than every 24 hrs. From what I remember, and maybe Deb can help me out here, growing up in Watertown, at least, there was a certain audio sub culture - Hal Puffer belonged to that group as did others. We did NOT play our albums more than once a day. It wasnt so much of the grooves 'liquefying' as that they would 'expand'. Again, I was 15yrs old. Who the hell knows?

[Bonzo]

The biggest of all:
"Vinyls are fragile and you can wear them out easily"

Thet's true only if you can't properly set your tt!

[Chris]

"evila tuO steG ereH enO oN".. If you look close enough.. Take the R out of ereh and mix it with evila, and that, my friends is an anagram for Elvira... and she just happens to be the Queen of the Darkness... so, I have to say, there IS some truth to the evil that lurks hidden in the ugly underbelly of our rock and roll records....

[Chris]

And let us NOT confuse a Mr. Jim Morrison aka Mojo risin, with our main man Mr. Grainger Morrison aka Mogo risin......

[4krow]

   Magoo Risen

[Grainger49]

BTW, Greg, I had a room mate who had an old Sony tape recorder (had speakers so it wasn't a deck).  It had the ability to adjust the heads so we could record Number 9 by The Beatles backward by swapping the head we were listening to.  I could imagine that "Number 9" sounded like "Turn me on dead man."

That was much easier than trying to listen by finger turning the table backward.

Eric,

I had heard that too.  One very nice guy allowed me to play a song on his LP 4 times in a row to compare different crossover cards for my SS-1 System.

Bonzo,

I bought a NM copy of a British import Transatlantic LP about 4 months ago.  The album was ruined by mistracking.  All the transients were highly distorted.  It was either set up wrong or a badly worn stylus.  I'm going to vote for a bad match between arm mass and cartridge compliance.

To all, of course I'm a big fan of The Doors.  Always have been even before finding out the lead singer's last name.

[Chris]

Magoo Risen..... hahahaha that is too funny.....is this the Transatlantic band with Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci and company??? if so, I am impressed... weird that a UK pressing would be that bad...

[Grainger49]

Chris, IIRC it was a John Renbourn album.  Transatlantic is the English label.

[4krow]

To be frank, NOBODY LIED TO US MORE THAN OURSELVES.

[bobster]

I thought you were Greg - not Frank.  But if you wanna be Frank, you probably ought to tell him