Anyone still have vinyl?

[Larmo]

Hey, I was just wondering how many people here have a nice record collection? I have maybe 20 or so old rock albums, like Led Zeppelin, The Who, Rush, etc.
So, anyone else with me in the record boat?

[Richard]

Oh yeah, I got Boston, the Who, Van Halen, Creedence, Dio, Ozzy AC/DC, etc. Oh yeah, I love the vinyls and search to improve my collection as well.

[ElvenEnvy]

I have quite a few old records; John Cougar, CCR, Willie Nelson, Skynyrd, the Grease soundtrack. My favorite isn't even music, George Carlin Seven Dirty Words- the best stand up act ever.

I have more for 8 Tracks

[Cthulhu1979]

My wife and I have a growing vinyl collection, some old, some new. We have most of the albums by The Beatles; in addition, I have some Iron Butterfly, Donovan, Jim Croche, and both albums released by HP Lovecraft (The band, not the writer :)). As far as newer albums go, I have a bunch by the Mountain Goats, and some by The Mars Volta, They Might Be Giants, The White Stripes and Johnny Cash.

Since I'm living in the digital age, I have a lot of music on my computer. As such, I avoid buying CDs. However, in order to support the bands I enjoy, I typically buy their vinyl albums instead. I like the larger format of the artwork, and I also like the tactile sensation of putting a record on.

I used to be able to pick up old vinyls at my local Salvation Army thrift store (Which is how I managed to get a copy of Herman's Hermits "On Tour"), but recently they've cranked up the prices, which doesn't sit well with me.

~Cthulhu1979

[Codeman]

Of course ....lots from the early and mid 70's....however I don't have a turntable anymore :cry:

[Dennys]

I was a DJ in College oh so long ago and my wife played keyboard in a band. Between us we have about 6 milk crates of vinyl. My most precious ones are Beatles red and blue on red and blue vinyl, and a Billy Idol picture disc (Rebel Yell).

[Hex_Enduction_Hour]

I have about 25-30 albums and just as many 45's, but my turntable took a dump some years back.

[atmospro]

More than I want to think about, somewhere between 2 and 3 hundred 33 long plays, around 50 or so 45's. These are mostly 70's and 80's rock and metal. Then theirs the old stuff, about 200 more albums of blues, jazz and big bands collections some are 33 and other are 78's.

Yes I'm old.

[Hex_Enduction_Hour]

This thread had me checking out my vinyl collection.
I'd forgotten I own the 4-record collection of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's opera, Einstein On the Beach!

I first encountered Einstein on the Beach in college during a art history class. I had to get the music. Due to time constraints of the format, the vinyl presentation truncates the work by about 30 mins. Regardless, it's an amazing listen. Wish my turntable still worked.

http://www.vinyltom.com/osc/catalog/images/glass_philip_einstein.JPG

The CD version features the full version, so I may need to purchase that someday, but the quality of the record - ! Will be missed.

[Codeman]

More than I want to think about, somewhere between 2 and 3 hundred 33 long plays, around 50 or so 45's. These are mostly 70's and 80's rock and metal. Then theirs the old stuff, about 200 more albums of blues, jazz and big bands collections some are 33 and other are 78's.

Yes I'm old.

78's! :shock: That must have been what my parents had .... I forgot the speed but that sound right. Those things were like 1/4" thick! I think the diameter was larger than a 45 but smaller than LP/33. I forgot about those they were obsolete by the time I was born (1957).

[Garada]

I do still own and actively listen to vinyl. The last thing I bought NEW on vinyl [yes, they're still making it!] was Radiohead's In Rainbows, which sounds great on the ol' turntable. I also picked up a copy of The Velvet Underground's Live double LP on eBay for a sweet price. Anytime Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds put out a new single, I try to pick it up on 45 single.

My girlfriend is a HUGE vinyl maniac, and has every Beastie Boys album and single on vinyl, plus about 300 records. We often hit the thrift stores for strange old obscure records, and we've found some real gems.

[ParaGoomba Slayer]

My dad still has some records that he plays. You will hear La Bamba and I Fought the Law occasionally in my house.

[loborocket]

I still have some vinyl but nothing to play it on. Everything in the vinyl collection was long ago converted to it's digital cousin.

[Garada]

I still have some vinyl but nothing to play it on. Everything in the vinyl collection was long ago converted to it's digital cousin.

Do you mean that you bought it on CD, or actually converted your LPs?

[Larmo]

Nice to see a fair amount of people are still listening to records! I just picked up Empty Glass the other day, like it a lot! What is the deal with red and blue records, are they just promo things? Do most records have colored versions?

[Rÿchean]

I still have some vinyl but nothing to play it on. This is me; my best of which is Beatles White. I will have to rectify soon.

[Garada]

Nice to see a fair amount of people are still listening to records! I just picked up Empty Glass the other day, like it a lot! What is the deal with red and blue records, are they just promo things? Do most records have colored versions?

Sometimes, a band will release a 'limited edition' on colored vinyl [my lady has ALL of the LE Beastie Boys records on colored vinyl, as well as the regular black vinyl versions]. Sometimes the colored vinyl is the only version available. I have noticed the colored vinyl used frequently on 45s too.

What is Empty Glass?

[Larmo]

Nice to see a fair amount of people are still listening to records! I just picked up Empty Glass the other day, like it a lot! What is the deal with red and blue records, are they just promo things? Do most records have colored versions?

Sometimes, a band will release a 'limited edition' on colored vinyl [my lady has ALL of the LE Beastie Boys records on colored vinyl, as well as the regular black vinyl versions]. Sometimes the colored vinyl is the only version available. I have noticed the colored vinyl used frequently on 45s too.

What is Empty Glass?

A Pete Townshend solo album.

[Hahma]

More than I want to think about, somewhere between 2 and 3 hundred 33 long plays, around 50 or so 45's. These are mostly 70's and 80's rock and metal. Then theirs the old stuff, about 200 more albums of blues, jazz and big bands collections some are 33 and other are 78's.

Yes I'm old.

78's! :shock: That must have been what my parents had .... I forgot the speed but that sound right. Those things were like 1/4" thick! I think the diameter was larger than a 45 but smaller than LP/33. I forgot about those they were obsolete by the time I was born (1957).

My wife has a tons of old 78's that were her dad's. They are thick and heavy. She's got hundreds of them from the 30's and 40's + of big band era. Tons of Glenn Miller and Gene Krupa especially (her father is burried in the same cemetary as Gene Krupa at Holy Cross Cemetary in Calumet City, IL). There are many other artists/bands as well, you name it and we've probably got it. It's pretty cool, but we need a turntable to play them on.

[DeceitfulBeauty]

I have a LOT. John Lennon's Double Fantasy still in plastic with the price tag, baby.

Pretty much everything John Cougar/Mellencamp. Almost all the Eagles. The Creatures and Peter Murphy, too, which I am so proud of.

And sooo many 78s. Boxes.

I have a new record player too--hard to find, but coming back now. I love vinyl--it sounds more real.

[Nwojedi]

that's funny this thread was surfaced. I recently aquired a 50's juke box and currently on the prowl for 45's to stock it with. I had a bunch of 45's and can't find them yet. Most of my records 33's are beatles albums, with bunch of 80's stuff.

If anyone has some 45's in these catagories, i'd be interested in trades or purchase

The cars- open to most
Scorpions- open to most
The drifters- there goes my baby and/or save the last dance for me
The flamingos- I only have eyes for you
Ted Nugent-fred bear and/or stranglehold (paying well if you have both on one record)
Sam Cooke- open to most
Queenryche- anything from Empire
Queen- open to most
Rolling stones- open

Also open to most rock from 50's to 2000ish.

all 45's have to have the big hole. :)

[The Walrus King]

I just got a "Wings- Band on the Run" record at a yard sale today... they were sellin so much in great condition i almost bought a Boston record but i didnt and idk y... It was only $2 each or $3 for two.... I feel bad i didn't buy more :(

[DeceitfulBeauty]

Nice to see a fair amount of people are still listening to records! I just picked up Empty Glass the other day, like it a lot! What is the deal with red and blue records, are they just promo things? Do most records have colored versions?

Sometimes, a band will release a 'limited edition' on colored vinyl [my lady has ALL of the LE Beastie Boys records on colored vinyl, as well as the regular black vinyl versions]. Sometimes the colored vinyl is the only version available. I have noticed the colored vinyl used frequently on 45s too.

What is Empty Glass?

I have a KoRn Here to Stay era single on bright neon green transparent vinyl. It's nice.

[jschild]

See I don't think they sound any more "real". They just didn't overproduce music in studio's back then and thus the sound was more "authentic".

Take some crappy Spears song and put it on vinyl and it will still sound fake.

[loborocket]

See I don't think they sound any more "real". They just didn't overproduce music in studio's back then and thus the sound was more "authentic".

Take some crappy Spears song and put it on vinyl and it will still sound fake.

I have heard some folks argue a vinyl record has a more "true" sound to it because when music is played it is naturally an analog wave/signal. The vinyl records this analog signal without change. The process of changing an analog signal into a digital one inherently loses "some" of the signal in the preocess. The sampling speed reduces this loss, but never totally eliminates it.

Of course the vinyl will loose this feidelity over time where a digital reproduction is the same the first time it is played as the 1,000,000th time it is played.

Digital is easier to store in my house on that thing I call a PC. :-)

Now of course in your example of a crappy Spears song, the "music" was probably digital from the very beginning. No insturments were played or hurt during the production of this record.

[jschild]

That's my point, essentially. It wasn't like people went from Vinyl (which I always hated that oh-so "realistic" pop and hiss) to CD's, was also when people started recording, sampling, and digitally altering songs.

Play me a good acoustic song on CD and it sounds great, just like on Vinyl. But most songs are so overprocessed that the "real" music is altered into something completely different.

[Gabbi]

I have lots of vinyl, purchased when I was a teen. all Iron Maiden until Seventh Son, lots of Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Helloween and the like, plus some heavier ones, like Sepultura, Death, Morbid Angel...
I still have them, but I've re-purchased most of them on CD, for easy of use.

on the Vinyl vs CD issue, vinyl discs win simply beacause you can put miniatures on them while playing, while on CDs you can't... ^^

[jbbnbsmith]

Lots of vinyl, or "big CD's" as my kids call them sometimes. Beatles, Billy Joel, Boston, Heart, Kansas, and much more 70's & 80's rock, plus lots of jazz and classical. I still thrown one on the turntable from time to time.

I've replaced much of my LP collection with CD's, and I think the CD's sound much better (except for ones that were poorly transfered.)

[Larmo]

It's fun to see this thread again, I was such a noob, geeze :P

I just spent what must have been $200 or so on various weezer and wavves vinyl. Call me crazy, but how can I say no to a Say It Ain't So 10" for just $30 ;P So, the new question this thread poses; does anyone on these boards still actively collect vinyl?

For those that are, I can't recommend discogs.com enough! Very good site to hunt down some more elusive records.

[ParaGoomba Slayer]

I have a vinyl record collection. I don't really love vinyl over compact discs, it's just another way to get music.

I have like half of Queen's studio albums on vinyl, and half of them on compact disc. I have 3 copies of News of the World, the ****tiest sounding one I made into a clock. :D

Like this:

http://www.myfirstrecord.co.uk/recordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/record-clock.jpg

All of my records are LP's except for one 45.

I like collecting vinyl records more because it's nice to walk into a place that sells vinyl and get a bunch of albums for cheap as opposed to having to order CD's for like $10 -ish bucks a pop from Amazon. But CD's can be played in my car, uploaded to my Xbox and PC, don't require constant cleaning, etc. So I like CD's more, but since my dad also collects vinyl records, vinyl records are just cheaper and easier to come by.

I went to a used record dealer a week or so ago, picked out 3 Judy Collins albums, 1 Bill Kenny (The lead singer of The Ink Spots) album, and a Mamas and the Papas album (Deliver) for $8 total. And they were having a sale so I got them all for $5. :D

When I feel like it, I'll take a picture of all of my vinyl records. It's not a big collection, but it's slowly growing.

[Larmo]

Ooh, that's a fun idea. Everyone should post pics of their collection highlights :) Once a few singles I ordered come in, I'll take some of mine hehe.

[ParaGoomba Slayer]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3484/3735188412_ba603c047b.jpg

Probably my most treasured album, as it is a compilation of Odessey and Oracle in it's entirety, and some of The Zombies's earlier songs. And yes, "Odessey" is the proper spelling. It was supposed to be called, "Odyssey and Oracle", but the artist that made the album cover spelled it wrong so the band just went with it, lol. Odessey and Oracle is my favorite album, so this compilation is that and more.

It's a shame that Odessey and Oracle didn't do well and the band broke up, it's a great album. It's also a shame that Time Of The Season and She's Not There are the only known Zombies songs as pretty much every Zombies song is a good one.

http://vivoscene.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/odessey-and-oracle-b000005yzm-l.jpg

Record 1 side 1:

She's Not There
Whenever You're Ready
Is This The Dream
Summertime
I Love You
You Make Me Feel Good
She's Coming Home

Record 1 Side 2

She Loves The Way They Love Her
Imagine The Swan
Smokey Day
If It Don't Work Out
I Know She Will
Don't Cry For Me
Walking In The Sun
I'll Call You Mine

Record 2 Side 1

Care Of Cell 44
A Rose For Emily
Maybe After He's Gone
Beechwood Park
Brief Candles
Hung Up On A Dream

Record 2 Side 2

Changes
I Want Her She Wants Me
This Will Be Our Year
Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)
Friends Of Mine
Time Of The Season


Also, my dad might have a real Beatles's Yesterday and Today with the original album cover. We don't know if it's real or not.

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/table_of_malcontents/images/2007/06/18/602pxthe_beatles__butcher_cover.jpg

The balls on these men.

[chas]

;) I still have my entire old vinyl collection--hundreds in almost all catagories of music; up to the late 70's--early 80s. (Rock, Classical, Jazz, Blues, Folk, Show Tunes, Ethnic Folk, Country, Movie Soundtracks, Etc.) After that I switched but bought much less. I like CD's better, except those that are reprocessed to sound different. Changing Beatle tunes that are grooved on my mind in the old orchestrations really disturbs me!

I have a working turntable in my 'play everything' compact system, but as part of it died, the CD player sitting on top of it now prevents me playing vinyl. If I'm playing a game, I don't like to get up to change the relatively shorter vinyl record sides all the time!

[jbbnbsmith]

The balls on these men.
I'm pretty sure those are baby doll heads...

[ParaGoomba Slayer]

Most 78's aren't vinyl, they're made in part out of shellac. :p

Today I picked up this:

http://ampnoise.com/e/a/25882artur.jpg

[jbbnbsmith]

The balls on these men.
I'm pretty sure those are baby doll heads...

Is there a way to give myself rep? After over a year I stumbled across this thread and this post really made me laugh. I don't remember writing that so it was sort of like laughing at someone else's joke.

Of course, I'm sure I can find several past posts of mine that I would now want to neg rep. I guess it all balances out in the end.

[Codeman]

Of course ....lots from the early and mid 70's....however I don't have a turntable anymore :cry:

Ya I must be getting old .... have some of the same albums on four differrent formats. Records / Cassete / CD / Invisable (downloads).

[Strange_Love]

I have the songs from Mary Poppins on vinyl that was my moms and a bunch of Christmas Albums. And a few Moody Blues albums that my dad had doubles of. They are all still at my parents house though.

[kboleen]

I've been collecting all my life but have gone back to buying vinyl for a few years now; probably have about 100. Especially cherished are my original release Kiss records; Dressed to Kill, Hotter Than Hell, Rock and Roll Over, and both Alive's.