how to tell on first pressing vinyl releases

"how to tell on first pressing vinyl releases"

Experience, experience, experience! Plus read up websites (Google search on your favorite artists and labels), ask retailers and collectors, go to record fairs and hang out with the people there.

Any specific questions, and we'll be glad to help. But it does take years and years of getting to know the records... there's no substitute for experience. It's just like collecting anything.

Patrick

thanks guys

wow - that Pink Floyd discography is extensive

I found a few tips on columbia and blue note references online and picked up the book Warman's American Records as well as a Goldmine to keep the shopowners honest. I'm more into the clean recording and dynamics of the music than collectibility. So less $$$ outlay and more flipping through bins and online.

Jazz looks pricey, classical should be inexpensive to get standard rep. more pricey with first pressings I'm sure

I used to collect japanese pressings in the early 80's of seventies material. thank God I taped them once to my Nakamichi and never again played them

I picked up a Loricraft and can't wait to find some more good inexpensive vinyl nearby that isn't too beat up. Estate sale anyone? Hear in New Orleans auctions are mostly antique furniture.

Already picked up a few Yes Red/Plum first releases and a few early 60's blue notes on ebay that I just happended to run into. Next maybe a road trip.... Princeton Record Exchange looks like a paycheck...

Get on Steve Hoffman's site. A lot of info on stampers there.

I have 2 pressings of one LP: one label is laminated and the other is not. Anyone know which one might have come first? The label color is also different but everything else is the same. Thanks!

Get the book " The Record Label Guide for Domestic LPs " by Joe Lindsay.This is the reference book on dating LPs by label art.