alt.vinyl info & postage

alt.vinyl for rare and deleted records & CDs

opening hours

alt.vinyl is open 10:30 AM - 6.00 PM, Monday to Saturday.

postage rates

Below are our current postage rates. If you are ordering via the website you will have the chance to select these postage amounts at the checkout stage. We reserve the right to charge supplemental postage for oversized or exceptionally heavy items.

UK postage & packaging:
- first 7"/cd £1.50 + 75p each thereafter
- first 10”/12"/LP £2.75 + £1.25 each thereafter
- signed for: above rates + £0.85p per order
- special delivery/insured (up to 2kg): add £3.50 to the above rates
Europe postage & packaging:
- first 7"/cd £3.00 + £1.50 each thereafter
- first 10”/12"/LP £5.00 + £2.00 each thereafter
- international signed for/insured (up to 2kg): add £5.00 to the above rates
USA, Japan & Rest of World postage & packaging:
- first 7"/cd £4.00 + £1.75p each thereafter
- first 10”/12"/LP £6.00 + £3.00 each thereafter
- international signed for/insured (up to 2kg): add £5.00 to the above rates

All UK deliveries are sent by 1st class post; all overseas deliveries by airmail. We aim to send all orders out within 24 hours of receipt.

Insurance cover for large or particularly valuable items can be arranged at extra cost. Please contact us in store:

Tel: +44 (0)191 222 1213
Email: info@altvinyl.com

All items are packed in robust card mailers to the highest industry standards.

Note: To safeguard our customers and due to high incidences of postal problems we will only send to latin america, africa, the middle east and asia (excl. japan) if packages are fully insured.

We cannot accept responsibility for lost/undelivered items sent by standard 1st class post or airmail. For this reason we recommend that you choose signed for/special delivery in the UK or international signed for when items are being sent abroad.

alt.vinyl 30-day returns guarantee

At alt.vinyl we want you to be delighted every time you shop with us. Occasionally though, we know you may want to return items.

Our 30-day returns guarantee means that if for any reason you are unhappy with your purchase, you can return it to us in its original condition within 30 days of the date you received the item, unopened (with any seals and shrink-wrap intact) and we will issue a full refund for the price you paid for the item.

Please note: We can only accept the return of opened items if they are faulty. We are unable to exchange items that are not damaged, defective or incorrect.

payments via the website

When you have finished choosing the titles you want please click on checkout. This will take you through to a secure payment area powered by a leading online payment processor and a major UK bank.

Once you have added the postage amounts you are ready to pay. You can pay either by card (we accept Switch, Visa debit, Delta, Visa, Connect, Mastercard or Solo) or via PayPal.

All PayPal payments should be sent to info@altvinyl.com, our recipient address.

Please note that all paypal payments will attract a 4% surcharge to cover commissions.

If alternatively you wish to pay by other means we do accept cheques drawn on UK banks and, at your risk, cash. If you are going to send cash please contact us to ensure that we are ok with the currency you are sending. Remember to conceal it well and again, please realise that this is a very insecure way of paying and entirely at your risk.

stock displayed

At any given time the stock displayed on this site should mirror the stock we have physically in our shop. Everything we have is on our database and this, and our site, is updated daily.

What we are saying is that we only list stuff that we have in stock and ready to sell. Many of our titles however are quite limited in number and some titles go very fast! We always do our best to keep up!

If you wish to pre-order forthcoming releases and know what you want or wish to discuss it with us please just get in touch. Similarly if you want us to search for items for you from our network of worldwide contacts that is fine too, just call or email.

We buy second hand vinyl, cds, cassettes, 78s and 8 tracks etc..

If you have a collection that you are looking to sell please get in touch. We will travel to you and give honest, open appraisals of what your collection is worth.We pay top trade prices and will happily give you cash or trade for items you may want from our store.

Whether your collection is psych, blues, folk, avant jazz, punk or techno just get in touch..we’ll take it from there.

We are also interested in demos, promos, press items or music related memorabilia. Again just call us or email..we look forward to hearing from you.

privacy

We are a music independent and focus solely on music. We do not do data mining or any nonsense like that. We will NEVER give any of your information to anyone else EVER....yeah that about covers it

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ALT.VINYL STAFF PICKS: BEST OF 2009

Graham: PINK NOISE 'Graffiti Youth' LP SUN ARAW 'Heavy Deeds' LP BILL ORCUTT 'A New Way To Pay Old Debts' LP JULIAN LYNCH 'Orange You Glad' LP EL-G 'Capitaine Present 5' LP VIBES 'Psychic' 7" TOPAZ RAGS 'Capricorn Born Again' LP NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS 'Shadow kingdom' 2xCD / 3xLP GOD IN HACKNEY s/t triangular lathe WOVOKA 'I & II' 2xLP Ben: DEATHSPELL OMEGA / SVEST 'Veritas Diaboli Manet In Aeternum' LP HELL 'Teufelswerk' 2xCD / 3xLP VOLTIGEURS s/t CD PRURIENT 'Rose Pillar' LP+Book EYEBALLS 'Thief Of Men' CD OMAR SOULEYMAN 'Dabke 2020' MAJOR LAZER 'Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do' CD / LP GOD IN HACKNEY s/t triangular lathe GRAVEYARDS 'Screwed And Chopped' LP WORMSBLOOD 'mastery Of Creation Demos' CD Rich: HELL 'Teufelswerk' 2xCD / 3xLP DOOM 'Born Like This' CD / 2xLP BONG 'Bethmoora' 2xCD BLACK METEORIC STAR s/t CD MOS DEF 'The Ecstatic' CD / LP AAVIKKO 'Novo Atlantis' CD / LP GROUP DOUEH 'Treeg Salaam' CD / LP TLAHOUN GESSESSE '1940 - 2009' LP MOUNT ERRIE 'Wind's Poem' CD / LP CIRCLE 'Triumph' 2xCD / 2xLP ELIANE RADIGUE 'Triptych' CD V/A 'Sound Of Wonder' CD / 2xLP TEMPA T 'Next Hype' 12"

CAI NYAHOE audio installation at Satellite Gallery

SATELLITE is proud to present _Towards a semi-autonomous self-perpetuating art (phone sex)_ __an audio installation by Cai Nyahoe ___Duration: 5min 44sec_ This sound piece is part of a series of works primarily exploring the role of the viewer in the production of art. In this piece the artist is seeking to restructure the contract between producer and consumer in a manner that favours the producer. This process has created a number of subtexts/by-products. Though no specific work is discussed a temporal work is generated through allusions to the dimensions of the piece, though these dimensions vary in relation to the ‘tasks’ requested by the artist: a device that simultaneously asserts and surrenders control of the work. In the context of other related pieces in particular "I really like you" (2007) Nyahoe has created a persona that is representative of a tendency inherent in the exhibition of work namely; the desire of the artist to seek external approval and conformation. Though this notion is taken to an extreme in this project these pieces; at times humorous are not entirely satirical. (phone sex) also inevitably leads the listener/viewer to question the nature of coercion and acceptable modes of behaviour in marginalised and inherently exploitative industries (in this case the sex trade). For the duration of the call certain unspoken rules are observed and a dual narrative is created: that of the artist seeking affirmation and the ‘client’ seeking physical gratification. It should be noted that although obscenity has been edited from the piece this is NOT in order to increase its palatability but rather to highlight the complicity of those hearing the work in the unfolding dialogue. SATELLITE is an independent 4 x 3 meter white cube project space for contemporary art situated at Alt Vinyl Record Store in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

GRAEME DURANT 'TUNDRA' EXHIBITION

Satellite ( located within alt.vinyl ) presents Graeme Durant's solo exhibition 'Tundra'. Preview: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Friday 31st July 2009 SATELLITE 61 Thornton Street Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 4AW United Kingdom 10:30 AM – 6:00 PM, Monday to Saturday SATELLITE is proud to present _TUNDRA _a solo exhibition of new sculpture by Graeme Durant. Durant's work stems from personal reflections upon certain materials and their transformations. Like the anagrammatical use of the artists name embedded in the title of the exhibition (that points, romantically, towards a collectively held understanding of the vast, treeless, perma-frost of a body of land); Durant similarly reorders a formalist sculptural vocabulary of form, volume and matter to play host to personal memory and experience. !!TEPRAC is a precarious rectilinear stack of four irregular, off-white cuboids on top of which sits a small wooden object in the form of an Archimedean Solid. This highly symmetrical, 'pure form' sits in opposition to the asymmetry of the architectonic white chipboard forms beneath it. Each of these units are carpeted on one face and, peculiarly sandwiched between the top and second object sits a generous block of foam brick. The dimension of each of these forms corresponds to a scaled version of all of the rooms in which the artist has lived. Durant begins with the abstract and leads us back towards representation, and somehow to a registration of his own presence in space and his own narrative.

SETTLE DOWN COFFEE SHOP NOW OPEN!

We'd like to extend a warm welcome to the Settle Down coffee shop. Run by our pal Neil, the cosy cafe will provide refreshments and delicious home-made food galore ( seriously, the vege-sausage and salsa panini is gorgeous! ) in a chilled-out, friendly atmosphere. The coffee shop is located under the same roof as the alt.vinyl store, so you can wander freely between the two, browsing vinyl with the aromo of fine coffee filling your nostrils, or sating your hunger to the wildest sounds from the underground. The coffee shop is open 8 til7 through the week and 9 til 6 on a saturday. Come on down and say hello!

'Last 30 Mins' - BRAND NEW ALT.VINYL LATHE!!!

alt.vinyl is proud to announce the release of 'Last 30 Mins', an astounding piece of sound-art from Jim Harold and Matthew Sansom. Last 30 Mins consists of sound fragments taken from the last Iraq Radio broadcasts to be picked up by recievers in the UK before radio signals were jammes by coalition forces in April 2003. The work was originally presented at the Centre For Contemporary Art, Glasgow, in January 2004 as a generative multi-speaker sound installation. It's limited to 100 copies, each individually numbered, and comes beautifully pressed on transparent 11" lathe, hand-cut by the illustrious Peter King in New Zealand.

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