DAMMIT how the hell is this possible??!

[Earlsays]

Just bought Bonnie Raitt luck of the draw on EBAY....brand new factory shrink wrapped (if it wasn't factory shrink they did a damn nice job re-packing everything) I just put it on the TT all excited to hear it and it SKIPS LIKE CRAZY!!!!! Could it be my stylus? the vynl has no scraches that I can see

[speidi1]

Based on my experience buying supposedly 'new' or 'new condition' sealed LP's from Judy's Music Stop here in Tucson, I say you took it in the shorts.

[VinylHanger]

Have your stylus checked, or you may have bumped your tone arm wieght.

[fotno]

I have a copy of Pink Floyd's The Wall - that I bought in the very early 1980's. It's still "mint" because I can't stand to play the thing, and I don't quite have the heart to just throw it away. It's terribly noisy, and has been since the first time I droped a needle on it. Mine came from the factory sounding like crap , mebbe it's the same deal with your copy of Bonnie Raitt?

[ZebraBlvd]

Very sorry to hear about your misfortune Earl. Knew you were excited about spinning this one. I love my Bonnie's.

[jcmjrt]

Sorry to hear that. I like Bonnie Raitt and would be disappointed with a new skipping record.
If your other records are playing good, I guess there's no question that it's the record. I haven't had the skipping issue but I bought one of the new Coltrane/Monk records and when I received it, one side was all scratched up. The company sent me a new one. I don't guess the e-bay seller has another Bonnie but you might get your money back and try again.

[Earlsays]

I'm only out $8.25 I listened to most of the album....some songs are perfect, some songs skip....the ones that skip also do something which is rather interesting....sometimes when she sings a word with a very pronounced "S" in it, I can hear static in the right channel (headphones) again, I don't see any scratches on it....tried both sides....some songs are great, some aren't really bites...I guess the search for this album continues & maybe I'll just go to see her live, have her sign this one, frame it, and call it a day.

[tankdonovan]

The newer pressed LPs are crap. Really thin! I have a number of LPs that look mint but they play like shit. In the last days of LPs they had no quality to them at all.

TankDonovan

[kstaskiewicz]

Just Yesterday I bought two brand new Columbia re-releases of Kraftwerk albums: Radio Activity and Trans Europe Express. Both records are made in USA and the latest date to be found anywhere on the cover is 1993 but I'm sure the pressings are newer than that...
Anyway, the vinyls looks to be good quality, pretty stiff and thick - I'd say it's at least 150g- not flimsy at all.

Now here is a kicker: one of the records plays nice - has an odd click here and there, but I haven't wet-cleaned it yet and it has some surface dust (from the paper sleeve perhaps) but the second one is a total disaster.
It looks mint to a naked eye under normal light but it has an obvious defect - it goes screeech.... screeech... screech once every revolution for almost the entire lenght of the recording, in the same physical spot and on BOTH sides...
It's not warped and it got me totally pissed of and puzzled.

Then I looked at it under bright sunlight outside and I saw a clearly visible "smear" of dust INSIDE the vinyl - just under/in the surface, about 1-1.5 inch wide going right across the surface... you guessed it - on both sides of the record. WTF???

Needless to say this one goes back to where it came from. It was $20.00 so it better plays nice.

I agree that the quality of some late releases has a lot to be desired.
And just think that they were able to make perfectly sounding records fifty years ago. Oh well.
Kris

[ZebraBlvd]

Hey Earl - found a mint copy of Luck Of The Draw LP your looking for. It also comes w/a CD, & Cassette copy also. :banana:




http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=353381

[theodoric]

One of the reasons records died in the 80's is that the pressings were so bad.

I bought a release on Rounder that had three audible skips right out of the shrink. I exchanged it for a new one, and it had the same three skips at the same spots. Bad stamper.

I bought an Elektra release that was so thin that the record was unbelievably warped right out of the shrink. I kept opening new copies, and they were all warped. The VINYL must have been about 50 grams, perhaps less.

I now own both the above releases on CD. At least I can listen to them.

[Grainger49]

Shouldn't skip, my eBay purchased one doesn't. If the LP looks good, it probably is.

Look elsewhere.

[rulerboyz]

As an interesting side note, Bonnie Raitt is one artist who didn't continue to have her albums released on vinyl. I think she may have one album after Luck of the Draw that was available on vinyl. After that it was all CDs. So it is quite likely we will get stuck holding the bag with later Bonnie Raitt vinyls.