Vinyl

[KingOfDreams]

Hey, how many of you collect vinyl records? I started collecting maybe 6 months ago at the most and so far I have...

Janis Joplin - Greatest Hits
Jefferson Starship - Winds of Change
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits
Paul Simon - Graceland
Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
The Yardbirds - Little Games
Wierd Al Yankovic - Dare to be Stupid

My parents have a ton of good stuff too that they're contemplating giving me at some point.

[Geisteskrank]

Not me... Didn't they halt production like 15 years ago? :confused:

[KingOfDreams]

Not me... Didn't they halt production like 15 years ago? :confused:

I thought that too for awhile but it seems like they didn't. I've seen brand new vinyl copies of new albums from "new" artists in my local independent music stores. It seems like vinyl is now produced for a much more select market, whereas you can find CDs everywhere. And I've bought all of mine, except for Raw Power, used.

[JLBats]

I've been thinking about getting all the Beatles albums in vinyl for a while now.

[spiderfan08]

my dad has a full cabinet full of them. he has all The Beatles albums. lots of Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Cream, Rolling Stones, you know that kind of stuff.

[KingOfDreams]

Good luck with that. Well, I guess they aren't all that hard to find. My local independent store has a few. They even have the rare Yesterday & Today featuring the cover that has the doll parts and meat...for around $200 or so.

[spiderfan08]

no they are not hard to find if you go to the right places. my dad got alot of them at a place called "Vintage Stock." they are all high in price though. he got some off ebay also.

[Dangerous]

Vinyl Pance!

[maxwell's demon]

-Beatles-Magical Mystery Tour
-/Early Beatles
-Rolling stones-Sticky Fingers
-/Some Girls
-/Hot Rocks
-Clash-Give'm Enough Rope
-/The Clash
-Art Ensemble of Chicago-The Third Decade
-Laurie Anderson-Big Science
-Stereolab-Dots and Loops

-Elvis Costello-My Aim Is True
-/ This Years Model
-/ Armed Forces
-/ Get Happy
-/Trust
-/ Almost Blue
-/ Imperial Bedroom
-/ Punch The Clock
-/ Goodbye Cruel World
-/ Blood and Chocolate
-/ (and the limited pressing interview E.C. picture disc.)

-Duke Ellington-The Duke at Tanglewood
-Phil Ochs-Tape from California
-United States of America-'self titled'
-Replacements-Tim
-/ Let it be
-/ Pleased To Meet Me
-Vincent Bell-Pop goes the Electric Sitar (electric sitar music covering the beatles, etc)
-Lou Reed-Transformer
-/ Berlin
-/ New York

-Joe Jackson-Steppin' out
-Jesus & Mary Chain-Psychocandy
-Blondie-best of...
-Thelonius Monk-Straight, No Chaser
-The Smiths-Hatful of Hollow
-The attractions- Mad About the Wrong Girl (just the band- sans elvis)
-The Tower Recordings-Rehearsals for Roseland
-/furniture music for evening shuttles
-The Cure-Seventeen Seconds
-/ The Head On The Door

-The Fall-Seminal Live
-The Cars-iShake it Up
-/ Heartbeat City
-Talking Heads-'77
-/ More Songs about Buildings and Food
-Devo-New Tranditionalists(kinda sucks)
-Killed By Death-vol 3(comp of rare british d.i.y. punk rock )
-Television-Marquee Moon
-/ Adventure
-Ornette Coleman-Broken Shadows

-The Who- Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
-Live Stiffs Live Stiffs Live...-( compilation album)
-The Sweet-Desolation Boulevard
-MerseyBeats-beat...
-David Bowie-Pinups
-/ Changes
-/ Lodger
-/ Station to Station
-The Waterboys-This is the Sea
-The Velvet Underground-And So on...

-Patti Smith- Horses
-Mott the Hoople-Self titled
-/ All the Young Dudes,
-The Shaggs-Philosophy of the World
-Dave Clarke Five-Glad All Over
-Billy Bragg-Back To Basics
-New Order-Power, Corruption and Lies
-/ Brotherhood
-The Golden Calves-money band
-Kicking Giant-Alien ID

-Daniel Johnston-Hi, How are you?/i]
-The Sea And Cake-[i]The Fawn
-Bruce Springsteen--/Greetings from Asbury Park
-/The Wild, The innocent and the E Street Shuffle
-/Born To Run
-/Darkness At The Edge Of Town
-/Nebraska
-/The River
-Pretenders-self titled
-Django Reinhardt&Stephane Grappelly-with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France

-Wire-Document and Eyewitness (rare live album)
-Pram-Gash
-The Original Modern Lovers-(the kim fowley produced one...not the one everyone knows.)
-Charlie Parker's All Stars-1950
-Superchunk-No Pocky For Kitty
-Crime and the City Solution-Just South of Heaven
-Henry "Red" Allen-Nice!
-Brian Eno-Discreet Music
-/ Another Green World
-The Supremes-Where Did our Love Go?

-Eric Burdon and The Animals-Eric is Here
-Prince and the Revolution-Purple Rain
-Turn On-(Stereolab side project)
-Cannonball Adderley sextet-Jazz Workshop revisited
-Gary Numan-The Pleasure Principle
-Gary Numan and Tubeway Army-Replicas
-Bix Beiderbecke-The Bix Beiderbecke story
-X-More Fun in the New World
-Beatles-Abbey Road

-Genesis-The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
-Xanadu-(soundtrack)- one of the first records i ever bought with my own money. gulp!
-The Beach Boys-Endless Summer. --(This is one of the first records i remember from my childhood. i used to stare at the inside album cover while listening to "in my room" and "little deuce coup" when i was probably about 3 years old.)

and so on.....

[KingOfDreams]

cool collection :up:

[maxwell's demon]

thanks. i've got a lot more- but those are the ones i already had in a file that i could easily copy and paste.

[Deadpool187]

I got a bunch of old Beatles stuff that i just threw in my closet

[KingOfDreams]

Just threw?!

[Edd Extraordinaire]

I have every album by the Beatles, Cream, a copy of Taking Back Sunday's first album, a copy of Underoath's latest album, and a copy of ACDC Back In Black

[Deadpool187]

Just threw?!


Yeah Why? They worth money? :confused:

[KingOfDreams]

I'm sure they would be worth something. And as for callously tossing vinyl of the greatest rock band ever...tsk tsk. Anyway, I'm guessing you're not a Beatles fan, are you?

[Themanofbat]

I'm still a vinyl connoiseur....

While I own about 100 CD's, I have over 600 Lp's and about 400 singles.

I'll go out of my way to pick up a new vinyl release (if it's available) as opposed to simply getting the all-too accesible CD.

Vinyl still rocks.... CD's are for wimps.

Cheers... :)

[JLBats]

I'm still a vinyl connoiseur....

While I own about 100 CD's, I have over 600 Lp's and about 400 singles.

I'll go out of my way to pick up a new vinyl release (if it's available) as opposed to simply getting the all-too accesible CD.

Vinyl still rocks.... CD's are for wimps.

Cheers... :)

You just described everything I aspire to:eek:

Does anybody know where one could pick up a record player at a relatively cheap price?

[JLBats]

Good luck with that. Well, I guess they aren't all that hard to find. My local independent store has a few. They even have the rare Yesterday & Today featuring the cover that has the doll parts and meat...for around $200 or so.

The mother ****ing Butcher cover?!:eek:

Are you kidding?!

That's worth a ton!

[maxwell's demon]

I'm still a vinyl connoiseur....

While I own about 100 CD's, I have over 600 Lp's and about 400 singles.

I'll go out of my way to pick up a new vinyl release (if it's available) as opposed to simply getting the all-too accesible CD.

Vinyl still rocks.... CD's are for wimps.

Cheers... :)

I own about 700 or 800 cds, but I made a pact with myself a few months ago never to buy a cd again if possible.
I'll download mp3s to try stuff out, and if i like them i'll buy the vinyl (when available). there's just no point to buying music in a digital format.


what are some of your favorites, manofbat?

[black_dust]

Just the new ones by the bands i like picture disks are cool

[The Dude]

Rick Springfield- Working Class Dog
Rush- Fly By Night
Queen- News of the World
Styx- Pieces of Eight
Steve Martin- Let's Get Small
Journey- Identify
Simon and Garfunkel- Bridge Over Troubled Water

I would have like 50 more but my grandma chucked my uncle's old records and my dad is to lazy to pick his up.

[Geisteskrank]

I'm still a vinyl connoiseur....

While I own about 100 CD's, I have over 600 Lp's and about 400 singles.

I'll go out of my way to pick up a new vinyl release (if it's available) as opposed to simply getting the all-too accesible CD.

Vinyl still rocks.... CD's are for wimps.

Cheers... :) Poophead, I'm not a wimp! ;)

[comicgirl]

I buy vinyl at yard sales for 5 cents a pop to decorate my basement family room


I try to get old 50-60's vinyl to keep "in Theme"

[KingOfDreams]

The mother ****ing Butcher cover?!:eek:

Are you kidding?!

That's worth a ton!

Yep. And I was just in there today and I was mistaken about the price. They're charging $750 for it.

Anyway, I bought these today...

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Armed Forces
Stray Cats - Stray Cats
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy and The Poor Boys
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam

[Bat Brain]

I own Oh Mercy by Bob Dylan on vinyl and that's it. My parents threw out all theirs for some idiotic reason :(

Although my uncle has an amazing collection that I couldn't even begin to type out.

[Edd Extraordinaire]

I want to break records.

[Kritish]

I'm sure they would be worth something. And as for callously tossing vinyl of the greatest rock band ever...tsk tsk. Anyway, I'm guessing you're not a Beatles fan, are you?

Greatest Rock band ever ? Sorry but that was AC/DC

[Edd Extraordinaire]

Beatles were better.

[Kritish]

Beatles were better.


I'm sorry but they wernt Rock perhaps pop maybe I think most people like them cause its hip to like um

[WOLVERINE25TH]

My pops still has all his vinyl, but I got CDs an' tapes.

[nosebleed.]

You can buy vinyl versions of almost all albums released nowadays. You just need to find where to look. Most DJs still buy vinyl except for those who have moved to cd. For audiophiles only the best turntables and cartridges/needles touch their vinyl (10,000 to 10s of thousands for equipment). But for regular guy or the newly aspiring audiophile who just wants to listen to his new (old) beatles record he just bought off of eBay...any old record player will do...around 100 bucks.

Myself...I still DJ using vinyl. I used to use a couple of Technics 1200s but I've moved onto a pair of Numark TTXs. Vinyl still sounds better to me than cd.

[JLBats]

I'm sorry but they wernt Rock perhaps pop maybe I think most people like them cause its hip to like um

Go listen to Revolution and Helter Skelter.

You basteed.

[KingOfDreams]

I'm sorry but they wernt Rock perhaps pop maybe I think most people like them cause its hip to like um

Well, I'm not one of those people. I've liked The Beatles since I was 10. I couldn't have cared less about being hip at that age. And rock music probably wouldn't have survived if The Beatles hadn't become popular. And anyone who thinks they are a pop band needs to listen to the vast majority of thier stuff recorded after 1966. Not exactly what I would call pop fluff. I'd say the same about Rubber Soul (recorded before 1966 I believe).

[Armand Z Trip]

Myself...I still DJ using vinyl. I used to use a couple of Technics 1200s but I've moved onto a pair of Numark TTXs. Vinyl still sounds better to me than cd.[/QUOTE]


How do the Numarks compare to Technics, do you still have the sense of control you get with Technics?

[KingOfDreams]

Today I bought...

Patti Smith - Horses
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You

[KingOfDreams]

So I sold the Elvis Costello and Steely Dan records. Most recently I bought a blues complilation from the '70s. It has Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf and others on it.

[Themanofbat]

Poophead, I'm not a wimp! ;)

Yes you are... :yay:

[Themanofbat]

I own about 700 or 800 cds, but I made a pact with myself a few months ago never to buy a cd again if possible.
I'll download mp3s to try stuff out, and if i like them i'll buy the vinyl (when available). there's just no point to buying music in a digital format.


what are some of your favorites, manofbat?

Most of my records are either rare 60's garage bands and 70's/80's punk.

My favorite band of all time has been the Cramps (a fan since 1983 :word: ).

I'd like to think I have an ecclectic record collection.

:yay:

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I only, haha, I only have Led Zeppelin's Coda and the Peter Criss solo album. :huh:

My Mom and Dad have, like, their records should be in the Smithsonian. :envy:

[Green Lantern]

My mom handed most of hers (except her Dead albums) down to me. Which means I have all the Beatles and Stones albums from the 60s and 70s, all the Zeppelin's, the first Van Halen, Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd and Street Survivors, among others.

[maxwell's demon]

Most of my records are either rare 60's garage bands and 70's/80's punk.

My favorite band of all time has been the Cramps (a fan since 1983 :word: ).

I'd like to think I have an ecclectic record collection.

:yay:


which 60's garage stuff? i'm missing a lot of my vinyl from when i was younger- most of mine is rebuilt from '93 on.
eclectic is the word most often used when people are over and the browse through my collection.