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By Hatter313
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havershaw wrote: Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:31 pm Hard Learned Lessons of Exotica:

These all arrived in the last couple of days. All great records, and I can recommend them all whole-heartedly.
But their cheapness is turning out to be a bit of a curse. I feel like I’m mostly buying from folks who have no experience grading, selling, packing, and shipping vinyl.

At least 2 of these are in VG condition (at best) and sadly Kapu is totally unplayable. Granted, I’m not spending much on these, but it’s starting to add up when you consider that I have to re-purchase half of what’s shown here.
All amazing records, though.

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Yeah this is the trouble with cheap records, a lot of these are essentially dollar bin finds and you really have to be careful with sellers. id rather pay a little more than i should on someone saying its MINT than a seller who doesn't really grade well and figures what the hell its a $3 record.
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By havershaw
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Yeah, I’m having to go for NM on as many of these as I can - and not eBay NM, but Discogs’ NM (I’m finding there’s definitely a difference).

Had to repurchase all of the Lyman records, and as I said, Kapu was unplayable so I bought a new one of that too.
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By Mateo Sanboval
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I like the way both of you put this. All very true.
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By havershaw
#139250
Well, as bad of a week as I had last week with exotica records, this week made up for it.
These were mostly all pretty cheap and they’re all NM (even though some were supposedly VG+). All of them sound perfect.
I really wasn’t expecting them to all be in this kind of shape but I’ll be damned if they all seem virtually unplayed.
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By havershaw
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I wanted to point out this one that I received yesterday, specifically. It wasn’t really cheap, but what I heard of it sounded amazing, and I loved the “golden” color that discogs claimed it had (but most copies have aged in a weird way where it almost looks wood grain).

This record is really amazing and I can’t recommend it enough. I was worried about this vintage colored vinyl, but it sounds amazing and nice and clean and I haven’t even had it cleaned yet. Coolest record I got this week, for sure.

(It was also pressed at the same time with a different title and cover, and while I like the other cover/title a little better, I was in love with this weird colored vinyl and also most of the copies under the other title weren’t in good shape.)
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