UK beat digging

i dont no why i bother sometimes. u US cats have got it easy. digging for beats in the uk is shit.

yeh used to be good tho -people like cats protection league and oxfam killed the diggin scene by charging like 25 quid for a star trek soundtrack. im always getting kicked out of charity shops for complaining about the prices. they think they can milk us diggers by getting some geek with a copy of record collector to come in and price theyr sh!t

people are sentimental bout vinyl in the UK

oxfam are the biggest c*nts. 5 quid for a worn 12'' what happened to the days when u could buy for like 1-2 quid max

I agree it's crap that so much wax is overpriced in the UK, but if it doesn't sell the prices will drop eventually.

also, car boot sales and the like can still yield decent stuff for cheap prices, you just gotta put the effort in.

I think digging now means getting less hung up on getting OGs, and going off the beaten track more.

that said, digging is hard in the UK, i agree.

Well it sounds like you guys aint from London, or your just to dam picky! You guys should try getting friendly with the owner/s I can go in 5 of my local charity shops with a tena and come out with like 20 good records. Lately Ive seen the price of records in go down in like few records shops, looks like hardly any one buying shit anymore! I dont know if thats a good or a bad thing for us digger! but there all ways ebay peeps sell there rock soul etc collections. Ever try putting a add in your local new papper?

hmm were do u live in devon there 2 great spots in barnstaple and one in bideford im always findin shi for like £1 and the got a basment just full of records for like 50p

yeh but i been diggin in the same town for 10 years and i bought all the good stuff. all thats left now is klaus wunderlich records and those weird top of the pops compliations from the 70's with cover versions. unless you wanna pay a tenner for a record for some band you never heard of just cos it says they used moog, oberheim, linn etc.

ive started going crazy for mad old 78's

jumble sales is where its at for 78's

^^^what town you been diggin in i find new stuff all the time hardly ever them top of the pops records

My local Oxfam is rammed with those Top Of The Pops records.

Most records in charity shops in my area are like £2 at the most. Usually 50p or £1

^^^ yeah i been to bristol looking for records in the summer it pretty expensive but theres this real nice place on cotham hill.

check this out any wayz
http://www.venue.co.uk/muso/muso_recshops.html

Mate, I completely agree about Charity shops but you've just got to find your spots. I've got a market in H******* where the guys give me records for free or next to nothing. They make their money selling teevees and stuff, the vinyl they don't care about. They'd rather shift a wad of it and get a quid than take it home with them.

Thats where the Charity shops are going wrong. If they reduced the prices significantly they'd shift a lot more.

dam all I can say is come to London cos i know a whole bunch of place where u can get good records for good prices, i dont pay no big money but got some nice records trust they closed down a bunch of reckless records shops but there is still nuff other place to get good shit.

on reflection i think i'm just a bitter old digger -I get good stuff cheap 10/25/50p -but its few and far between. i just guess all the old folks dying dont have any funky sh!t to leave to the chazza's!!

i picked up some good early 80's stuff recently -whispers, midnight star, d-train, that kind of stuff, but i cant handle forking out 2 quid for pan pipe moods just cos it might have a fresh hook on it -that sh!t shud be 10p

my mate got 54 klaus wunderlich albums for 8 quid tho, you gotta hear his cover of superstition -its wild

Manilla wrote:oxfam are the biggest c*nts.

LOL!
Fair does to them, they are a charity after all, it's in their interests to rip you off.
I generaly stick to carboot sales. 95% is of it is sh*t but now and again I'll get lucky...usualy from landlords who's tenants have done a runner and have left their stuff behind.