Anyone here still play albums?

[whodiedandmadeUSgod]

I have been buying albums at thrift stores event though I don't have a turn table. In the market for one of those too. I think it would be fun to have a party and spin vinyl. Anyone else collect albums?

[flamingyouth]

1. Yes. I love LPs.

I have a huge collection of them, in fact.

[johnnie]

2. I still do

A lot of my favorites are replaced w/ cd, but I have well over a thousand vinyl albums and play them once in a while.

[Tom Kitten]

3. yesh.

I have several thousand in fact. And I have three turntables!

[On the Road]

4. I Have a Bunch of LPs

I still buy them occasionally at a used CD store, flea market, or yard sale. Sometimes you can get good old stuff for a fraction of the cover price. On the other hand, some famous albums have become very expensive. You used to see the "It's a Beautiful Day" record , with the girl on the prarie, all over the place -- I recently saw a used copy for 30 bucks in a store.

[LDS Jock]

5. What's an album?

[qnr]

6. Own them, don't play them

But I don't play the CD's much either. Got rid of my Nakamichi's and AR's a while back and now I just play mp3/ogg for the most part.

[LowerManhattanite]

7. Own well over 1100 albums and...

...play them regularly on both of my high-end turntables and my vintage Philco console from 1955 (Sinatra's "In The Wee Small Hours" album sounds magnificent on it, as do all my pre-1960 Jazz albums).

I'm no luddite, (as I have a 100-Cd carousel attached to the stereo system and run iTunes on all my Macs), but I love the warm sound of clean vinyl recordings and yeah...I'm a gadget-head.

[Kikosexy2]

8. Vinyl!..

and I don't mean the sofa either. Why of course!! I love to hunt for vinyl for the music of course but also for original packaging. God I just love the packaging and music of the following:
STICKY FINGERS - ROLLING STONES
SOME GIRLS - ROLLING STONES
SGT. PEPPER - THE BEATLES
BRAIN SALAD SURGERY - ELP
PHYSICAL GRAFFITI - LED ZEPPELIN
BILLION DOLLAR BABY - ALICE COOPER
SCHOOL'S OUT - ALICE COOPER
TOMMY - THE WHO
BREAKFAST IN AMERICA - SUPERTRAMP
GOOD-BYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD - ELTON JOHN
HEJIRA - JONI MITCHELL
REVOLVER - THE BEATLES
SANTANA - SANTANA
ABRAXAS - SANTANA

AND MORE!

Love Amoeba Records Store and Aarons Record Store.

[Gothic Sponge]

9. No, sadly i gave most of mine away!

I had rebought everything on CD. It was a dumb move.

[asthmaticeog]

15. You poor soul.

I did that once, in the late '80s. It's been a MEGABITCH (not to mention $$$$$) re-acquiring all that music.

[Philostopher]

10. Occasionally.

We have about 300 between us, the Mr. and I. We bought a new turntable a few years back just so we could throw things on it occasionally on the weekends. He's been going through lately and digitizing some stuff he has that was never released on CD. I still root around and pull something out once in a while, though most of my stuff was more mainstream (the weird stuff got left with my first hubby, since I didn't want to fight over something like that at the time) and has since been bought again on CD. Funny thing, though -- when we saw Sloan back in the summer, they had done a run of vinyl versions of their albums. We bought several, I don't remember if we got all of them or not. Something appropriate about buying albums from a 70s pop influenced band on vinyl when we have their stuff already on CD, but we're pretty strange.

We still hit the used stores, too, especially when we're in Toronto.

[Heyo]

11. Sure thing...

... I've got my two Technics 1200's, and my mixer.

I still buy new stuff on wax to this day...(underground techno)

Heyo

[Lefty48197]

12. Yup

[beanball]

13. My collection

of LP's dates back to the 50's(over four thousand)I have ab ablum by Bing Crosby recorded on 78 that was before the 331/3 or LP's.

[asthmaticeog]

14. Yup.

I've got buttloads of vinyl, and I'm constantly getting more. New releases as well as older stuff to fill holes in my collection. If I should ever move, the stuff's gonna be a fucking task to deal with. But I ain't parting with much of it.

As for turntables, look on eBay for used DJ set ups. You can often get two decent Stanton TTs with a mixer for around $300 - 500. DON'T buy those shitty $100 TTs that you find at Circuit City. Get something that club DJs use, like Technics, Stanton or Neumark. The quality varies (many Neumarks are kinda sucky, Technics are the best, but priced accordingly - since they're for personal use you don't need the best or most durable), but if you go with one of those, you'll always be able to get new needles. I can't sufficiently stress the importance of being able to get needles.

[brentspeak]

16. Vinyl has a vibrancy to the sound that CD's don't usually match

I guess it comes from the stylus reading the lp. And there's something nostalgic about hearing the random pop-and-crackle.