Any Vinyl Collectors Out There?

[Deleted]

So for Christmas I recieved a nice little record player and since I have been building a little vinyl collection. I try and purchase at least one new one each check, and working a Hot Topic, the discount has been coming in handy. Any one else collect vinyl or LPs? My collection thus far is a little odd, but it includes:

Sleeping With Sirens- Lets Cheers To This
Hank Williams Greatest Hits
Kanye West- Graduation
Memphis May Fire- Challenger
Of Mice & Men- The Flood
A Day To Remember- The Difference Between Me and You
Hawthorne Heights- Silence In Black and White

I am also desperately looking for Senses Fail- Let It Enfold You, but Amazon wants 400 and Ebay wants atleast 100. Checked all over online but found nothing.

[Deleted]

Big collector. I have a lot. My mom got me into it way back by giving me all of hers. Everything from Beatles, to led zeppelin, rush, van halen, etc. Alot of classic rock. I don't buy em as much as I use to, but I have purchased a lot.

Some of my favs are:

Uplift mofo party plan - RHCP
Show no mercy - Slayer
Lateralus - Tool

[Deleted]

ive got about a hundred or so

8 sinatra originals
3 beach boys originals (surfing usa, ect)
the doors (soft parade)
rush - anthology (80's?)
3 beegees
tony bennet
duke ellington
alabama
purple rain - prince
thriller - michael jackson
rebel yell - billy idol
caribou - elton john
steve martin - wild and crazy guys (stand up)
kennedy assassination memorial record (1964)
rod stewart
2 neil diamond
2 barry manalow
the spinners
the commadoors
lionel richie
johnny cash - live in san quenton

ect ect ect

most ive bought for about 25 cents at the goodwill and yardsales

[Deleted]

Yeah thought about thrifting and flea markets

[Keyboard Cat]

Yep! I visit my local record shop frequently... I can't recall the last record I bought was though.

Edit: I actually think it was Omar Rodriguez Lopez and John Frusciante on Transparent red. Pretty awesome record.

[BigEvilNerd]

I've been collecting for about 7 years now. At last count I had about 2,000 albums....maybe 21 or 2200. Takes forever to count them so I don't do it all that often.

I like it....it's a fun hobby, it's relatively cheap, and it gives me an excuse to hit every secondhand shop, garage sale, antique store, etc. I can find. I also collect vintage stereo equipment to go along with the records. I've got 3 turntables, 3 tape decks, an 8-track, a pile of speakers and a couple stereo receivers.

Have fun collecting

[Ben]

i actually got a record player a couple days ago from my recently passed away great aunt. it's a newer one that she bought and for some reason never used. my first two vinyl purchases were revolver and bob marley legend yesterday haha. i already love it.

[T R W]

My wife mostly does. I got her a nice console record player for Christmas last year, and we buy vintage albums for it. Rarely do we buy reprints of anything.

Mostly we buy original releases of our favorite artists or albums.

For Christmas I just gave her original vinyl releases of The Beatles White Album, Elvis Presley: Live in Hawaii, and Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon. They were in great shape and they ran about $90 for all three.

Aside from Thrift stores and flea markets, antique stores are a great place to look as well. Fortunately I live in a college town, so there is an amazing record store downtown. Look around for a record store. The prices will be higher, but the condition and selection will be infinitely better.

[Deleted]

So far I have nearly every Ramones album, bootlegs and studio releases and rare stuff. All the Roth era Van Halens and solo. Most of the Green Days as well as The Queers and Sloppy Seconds. I'm starting on Motorhead and other punk bands I enjoy.

I really enjoy the annual "Record Store Day". It gives you a chance to get new released and whatnot. check out this site for when the next one: April 20th 2013! www.recordstoreday.com/Home

Here in Chicago every quarter or so there is a huge record convention that comes to town. At least two ballrooms full of people selling records.

[3Lephant (Naptown Icon)]

Classics:
A few James Taylor
a few Jimi Hendrix
Introducing the Beatles
Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Modern era? whatever you want to call it:
Rilo Kiley - all albums except for more adventurous
Dear and the Headlights
Iron and Wine
Mt Eerie
Passion Pit - Chunk of Change EP (import)
Passion Pit - Manners

and a few others.. Its hard to do off the top of my head

[k5]

i have a lot but don't get to enjoy them often as i had to leave the turntable in the attic whem i was moving crap out.

got quite a few though, ranging in age and value. my most prized one is likely is dead by crime in stereo. vinyl is also the only form i'll listen to pink floyd on (with exception to their cassette only tracks).

[Deleted]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I'm going to start checking out different places. I really need to experience Pink Floyd on vinyl. I live near a couple if record stores that I definitely need to check out.

[AaronRT]

I love collecting albums. I think I have over a thousand or so; like BigEvilNerd said; it takes so long to count them so I don't all the time. I used to work at Recordland here in Calgary. The place is huge with about everything you could imagine. The last album I purchased was Queen's "Innuendo."

[BigEvilNerd]

Jan 22, 2013 12:45:51 GMT -5 AaronRT said:

I love collecting albums. I think I have over a thousand or so; like BigEvilNerd said; it takes so long to count them so I don't all the time. I used to work at Recordland here in Calgary. The place is huge with about everything you could imagine. The last album I purchased was Queen's "Innuendo."

I have been collecting for a long time and I have never seen ONE copy of Innuendo in any store I've ever been to. And I've been to record stores from here to the west coast and all the way to the deep south. Lucky SOB

[AaronRT]

Jan 22, 2013 13:05:06 GMT -5 BigEvilNerd said:

Jan 22, 2013 12:45:51 GMT -5 AaronRT said:

I love collecting albums. I think I have over a thousand or so; like BigEvilNerd said; it takes so long to count them so I don't all the time. I used to work at Recordland here in Calgary. The place is huge with about everything you could imagine. The last album I purchased was Queen's "Innuendo."

I have been collecting for a long time and I have never seen ONE copy of Innuendo in any store I've ever been to. And I've been to record stores from here to the west coast and all the way to the deep south. Lucky SOB

Haha I was lucky enough to find it in a small vinyl store for only $25. Do you have a Discogs account? If you don't then I highly recommend creating one. You can buy and sell albums on it. For example; this is what they have for Innuendo vinyl www.discogs.com/sell/list?master_id=19705&format=Vinyl. I prefer to buy albums in person so I can be sure of the quality but sometimes you have no other choice but to grab one online.

[cioffdogg]

I love vinyl! Listening to an album's a bit more of a "commitment," as you can't easily skip to the next song or pause, but for some reason I love that about vinyl. Listen to a record the whole way through or don't, that's the way it should be!

Here's my collection:

Aerosmith
Aerosmith

Bad Company
Straight Shooter

The Beatles
All My Loving / Thank You Girl (single)
Beatles VI
Abbey Road (remastered)

Big Brother And The Holding Company
Cheap Thrills

Billy Joel
The Stranger

Black Sabbath
Heaven and Hell (remastered)
Paranoid

Boston
Boston

David Bowie
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

Def Leppard
Pyromania

The Doors
The Doors

Eagles
Hotel California

Eric Johnson
Tones

George Carlin
An Evening With Wally Londo Featuring Bill Slaszo

Gerry Rafferty
City To City

Jeff Beck
Wired

The Jeff Beck Group
Jeff Beck Group
Truth

Joe Satriani
Dreaming #11

Judas Priest
Defenders Of The Faith (remastered)

KISS
Alive!

Led Zeppelin
In Through the Out Door
Led Zeppelin IV

Peter Frampton
Frampton Comes Alive!

Pink Floyd
The Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here (remastered)

Queen
A Night at the Opera

Queensrÿche
Operation: Mindcrime
Rage for Order

Rush
Archives

Scorpions
Blackout
Lovedrive

Styx
Pieces Of Eight

Van Halen
Van Halen

The Who
Live at Leeds

Yes
Fragile

Soundtracks
Jesus Christ Superstar
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

[BigEvilNerd]

Jan 22, 2013 13:22:44 GMT -5 AaronRT said:

Jan 22, 2013 13:05:06 GMT -5 BigEvilNerd said:

I have been collecting for a long time and I have never seen ONE copy of Innuendo in any store I've ever been to. And I've been to record stores from here to the west coast and all the way to the deep south. Lucky SOB

Haha I was lucky enough to find it in a small vinyl store for only $25. Do you have a Discogs account? If you don't then I highly recommend creating one. You can buy and sell albums on it. For example; this is what they have for Innuendo vinyl www.discogs.com/sell/list?master_id=19705&format=Vinyl. I prefer to buy albums in person so I can be sure of the quality but sometimes you have no other choice but to grab one online.

Yeah I've bought a ton of vinyl off discogs and musicstack. I usually only do it though when it's a specific album I can't seem to find but I really want pretty badly. I might do that with a couple of the later Queen albums now that I think about it. I've never seen a copy of The Miracle either.

[Deleted]

Add the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack

[TheChamp617]

Im not a collector, but just a tip, a lot of the Thrift Stores I go to have A LOT of vinyls

[JC Motors]

Not really but I do however have 3 vinyls. Two of them are old sealed promo LP's that came from my Grandfather's appliance store and aren't worth much. I also have a rare 45 Slam Bamboo single which is a band that Trent Reznor was in before NIN