My gf offered me my very first turntable for my birthday back in September and I've finally started collecting vinyls. Actually, I already had a few that I had never been able to listen to until recently (some pre-Skydiggers stuff: Direktiv 17 LP and Maize/Finlayson 7"), as they were vinyl-only releases. I try to limit myself to releases that only exists in vinyl form. If the songs already exist on cd, I don't want it since I will own it that way. Made a few purchases recently: -Alice Cooper - Live from the Apollo Theatre Glasgow 1982 2LP (RSD release) -Peter Buck (from R.E.M.) - Peter Buck LP -Peter Buck - Opium Drivel 7" -Peter Buck - I Am Back To Blow Your Mind Again LP -Peter Buck - Warzone Earth On my want list: -The Rentals (ex-Weezer Matt Sharp) - Q36 2LP -Bingo Hand Job (R.E.M.) - Sanitized For Your Protection LP (RSD release - a live show from 1991) -Alice Cooper - Live From The Astroturf (RSD release) LP -Alanis Morissette - Live at London's O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire 2020 (RSD release) 2LP
welcome to wonderful world of wax brother. personally for me it’s a worse habit than transformers...collecting just vinyl exclusive is a cool way to go about it, that makes the vinyl releases more special. vinyl just gives you a full experience man. album art all big, the inserts, sleeves, whatever other bonuses come with. if streaming an album is like renting a movie, buying the vinyl is like going to see it in imax i feel. i have almost everything logged on discogs, which a great vinyl resource if you haven’t checked it out yet. it’s actionfigure411 for records. timallen420 if i had to pick a couple faves: - joe’s garage i-iii - frank zappa - elvis presley - elvis presley - hounds of love - kate bush - close to the edge - yes - in the court of the crimson king - king crimson and my rush collection of all live/studio albums from 1974-1987 and my silversun pickups full discog.
I've got a bunch of vinyl. Going to the used vinyl store and $2 bin diving is awesome. Some of the easiest stuff to find out there that's good AND cheap because of over supply: Gino Vannelli - Brother To Brother Christopher Cross - *self titled Crosby Stills Nash & Young - So Far George Benson - Breezin' Dan Fogelberg - The Innocent Age Herp Albert and the Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream and Other Delights
roll the bones is mad underrated. the title track rap section seems to put people off but it’s one of my favorite rush songs
I am a vinyl collector. However! And this might sound strange: I think vinyl is an inferior format and has always sounded like shit. I know that will ruffle feathers, but it's just my opinion. I grew up with records and hated the hisses and pops and I'll never forget being amazed at the difference once music went digital. Having said that, I'm obsessed with collecting records. I don't listen to them. I guess I'm like one of those sneaker head guys that buys shoes and never wears them. I love having a rare, limited pressing of an album I love, preferably on colored or translucent vinyl. I love seeing the artwork BIG the way it's supposed to be. I apologize for offending vinyl purists that prefer the sound, but I've never been able to afford a set up that eliminates hissing and pops. Some recent additions I'm particularly proud of are the RSD exclusive Slint release, and I got a really hard to find Japanese record at Japan's RSD too, by a band called Gingnang Boyz. My most recent purchase was the German reissue of Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" on blue vinyl. I just loved the idea of having that record on blue vinyl. (Here's the worst part....not only do I not have a good set-up.....I don't even have a turntable in Japan at the moment. I know. I'm the worst kind of hipster scum.)
I listened to both vinyl and cassette growing up. I found that cassette was garbage - it wore out quickly and never had a good frequency range. Vinyl was better but seemed a tad fragile. It was so easy for a 9-year-old kid to gouge a record. CD blew me away, although it would take remasters to get the real sound out of them. Bass finally had a good dynamic range and the high ends were crisper than both cassette and vinyl. But what I found was that music publishers were getting more and more frugal in what they were releasing on CD. Stuff from my childhood was getting left behind but I could find it in the dollar bin of a used record store. It really hit me when I couldn't find anyone carrying Styx's "Kilroy Was Here" on CD - but the record store had it on vinyl for $7. There's still a metric ton of vinyl media out there that never got a proper CD transfer. What I've found is: 1. CD still has the superior dynamic range. 2. CD, however, loses an element of warmth. It's a very "cold" sound due to processing. This is fine if you're listening to electronica or something. But for earlier material recorded originally in analog, analog reproduction is best, IMO. 3. 180g vinyl cuts get close to CD quality while retaining the warmth. The deeper cuts give you that better dynamic range but, again, if it was recorded in digital to begin with, you might not gain much of an advantage. It really is an instrumentation thing. Just make sure that your turntable can handle it. 80's machines aren't designed for 180g and will experience jutter. 4. I like the pops...as long as it's minimal. Skips are still as irritating as ever. 5. I feel like vinyl forces the listener to actually listen, to a degree. It feels more like an event rather than something you'd do for background noise. The larger packaging also makes you fee like you have something substantial and not disposable. Don't even let me go into streaming. Let's just say the only good thing about it is its portability.
Years ago I sold a ton of the vinyl I had to local collectors but I still have some stuff.... 3/4ths of which are my Iron Maiden stuff. I rarely buy anything new these days though I did back Iapetus's crowdfunding campaign for the vinyl version of their Body Cosmic album but its been pushed back to March because of covid issues with the plant.
Lemme tell you...if you fall into the category of someone who loves vinyl and movie soundtracks, stay far away from Mondotees.com because it is a rabbit hole you don't want to fall down.
Got a bunch of old vinyls for Christmas from my gf: -Rocky -Rocky II -Rocky III -Goldorak : comme au cinéma (more or less a Grendizer "movie" with songs throughout)
I wouldn't consider myself a collector, but I have hundreds of vinyl because I used to make mixes WAY back in the day on my Technics turntables. I don't recall having any treasured pieces, but I do have Michael Jackson's Off the Wall and Thriller in a crate sitting in storage. I think I still have Queen's Night at the Opera in there as well. They're beyond dusty and just taking up space, but I don't have the heart to part with them. Back when Rasputin Records was still open, I used to go vinyl diving for 12" remixes. My genre of choice for mixing was mid to late 80's hip hop, R&B and freestyle, a defunct genre that vanished into obscurity in the mid 90's. For freestyle, I have vinyl albums for Stevie B, Sweet Sensation, Cover Girls, Cynthia, Lizette Melendez, Lisa Lisa, Expose and a ton more. Back in late 2019 before Covid wrecked the world, I went to a freestyle concert in San Francisco, and got to meet Cynthia, Sweet Sensation and Lizette Melendez, got signed memorabilia and got pics with all of them. That was the last live event that my wife and I attended.
Picked up Phil Collins "No Jacket Required" on limited edition orange vinyl from Barnes & Noble. These limited edition colored vinyl records are fun but can mess with the fidelity due to the mixing process of creating the record (not the audio mix but the record itself not being quite as pliant, IIRC). Honestly, black is best. But it's still fun...
I am full on addicted to vinyl, I flat out stopped collecting TFs as it cut into my record money. Back in the late 80's/early 90's, I was an obsessive CD collector, but around the mid-90's, stores (and garage sales) were unloading vinyl for next to nothing, so I picked up some of my fav albums, more as display pieces than practical things to listen to. Then I did pick up a record player on the cheap, and the first time I heard the self-titled Black Sabbath album on vinyl, I was sold. I was just blown away, even though I was intimately familiar with that album at that point, it was a whole new listening experience for me, the warmth and subtle little pops and clicks just added so much to the experience. All of that said, I don't actually believe you'll get a better sound out of modern, digitally-recorded albums on wax, but my love of the medium continues unabated. Sadly, long gone are the days when I could pick up boxes of records for a handful of dollars, it is an addiction that keeps me plenty poor these days.
I only get vinyls of the album's that I really like or have cover art that's really good. I have maybe 20 to 30. I don't even have something to play them on though. It's just for the memorabilia aspect.
Cassette??? The only reason I still have a player is because there's some stuff out there that hasn't hit any other form of media.
Another good one I got for the Black Friday RSD: Another Ed Roland (Collective Soul) side project meant to sound like the Cars. Really good, since it also sounds like Collective Soul at times.
I got the Lion King vinyl when I went to Disney in 2017. It’s kinda pointless since I have the soundtrack on iTunes already, but oh well. I’ve listened to it now and then and it sounds great on my record player. I have since also gotten Purple Rain, Thriller, Guardians of the Galaxy vol.2. And one of my buddies from work gifted me a Zapp & Roger vinyl.
