Rare CDs

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has anyone heard of CD BBQ , or possibly even used them? They find rare vinyl and professionally transfer it to CD. It ain't cheap though! I was looking for an old compilation album (Flipside - Paranoia You Can Dance To). They can provide it at a cost of $80!! :open_mouth:

spammer

I've been called worse.upon further research, I'm starting to think this crazy-expensive option might be my only one.It's not spam, I just hoped my friends could undestand my pain and offer sympathy and suggestion. Now go and moderate or something.

I'm moderating your spamming

and I'm monitoring your moderating

I promise to have this thread deleted if I buy shares in CD BBQ, until then you can all just stop making me hijack my own thread dammit!!pffft

I do love a good BBQ cookout.

Well ya'know I'm king of the grill!!
I just hope you don't mind an afternoon in the unsupervised back yard of beer, meat and punk rock!

got a hot tub?

a hot tub can be arranged as long as you promise to pee in it.

I'll pee in it right after you cum in it. Then we can all jump in and have a real party.

that'd be some everluvin' A2A soup, I tell ya what!wooo

I'd love to join in, but I'm not 18 yet, and for some reason A2A seems to frown on that sorta thing.

my back yard... my self hijacked thread... my rules!

Is that an invite, or would I just cramp your style?

So you have to supply the source vinyl record? I assume you already have a good quality turntable and cartridge. For what they charge to transfer a handful of albums, you could get a decent quality outboard audio interface (a couple of years ago I found some with phono inputs) and some audio processing software, for which you can get plug-ins for noise reduction and pop removal.

If you do it yourself, you eliminate the risk of damage or loss in shipping your rare and valuable albums.

actually, the album in question was one I had on cassette only and it was in the Mustang when it was stolen.I didn't realise how rare it was until I decided to look for it.I could probably hit shareeza for the individual tracks and rebuild the compolation myself but there's guarentee they'll all be available anywhere. I guess you think that an "on topic post" get's you an invite to the bbq... you're right

Mmmmm....bar be que.So, wouldn't that company take your tape, digitize it, and process it to make it sound better? If you have a cassette player, can't you do it yourself (if you have a good quality sound card)? I mean, those guys don't go out and find good versions of your tracks, do they? Or do they?

well, the guys that stole my car didn't actually return the tape.

CDBBQ buys the vinyl (new or used, depending on availability) from a dealer network, clean it and records it to cd. They can employ various noise reduction systems as well at an extra cost. They then ship you the vinyl and the cd with a track list.

The Flipside compelation in question had some versions of songs that were different that what was released on the various bands' albums. It also had some goofy little intros recorded by a couple of them too.