Nostaligic for Vinyl

[LynneSin]

Today as I house clean, I found a box with half of my vinyl album collection (A-K). Damn, I miss vinyl records! The artwork of the album sleeves were amazing and just loose something when you have a CD.

And the collection: 17 David Bowie Albums, Clash, Devo, Beatles, Cream, Greatful Dead, Dire Straits, Jethro Tull (geez, I have like 7 Tull albums!), King Crimson, and such obscure groups as Box of Frogs, The Firm (a Page Group), the Honeydrippers, the Inciters (a local Perry County Group).

I can't wait to find the other half of my collection. I think I'll go out and buy a record player!

[Generic Other]

1. LOL

I thought you were talking about an item of apparel!

[Coffee Coyote]

2. woohoo!

I love my vinyl! I still have about 70 or 80 of my classics.

You can get a decent Sony drive-belt turntable at a good electronics store for $100 or so. Do it! :D

[CanuckAmok]

3. I swear by vinyl...

I've been copying my rare records onto MP3, so I won't wear them out, and can take them anywhere.

Restoration Hardware (do you have this retail chain in the US) sells LP cover frames. I have some in the media room--you can frame your favourite album art, and change it when it starts to get boring. Right now I have a "Soviet Art" theme going on--some records borrowing from that blocky Soviet propaganda poster style, like Kraftwerk's "The Man Machine", and so on...

I love album art...

[NashVegas]

4. I Don't Miss it for Anything

Try moving 5 times in 4 years with 2-3k albums. My legs would get so bruised from carryling milk crates up and down the stairs... I kept one shelf's worth of rarities. All my CDs have been taken out of their jewel boxes - except those with outstanding artwork/packaging - and slipped into those Case Logic binders that hold 200 each and take up no more than two shelves.

[blackcat77]

5. I don't miss vinyl a bit

I'm interested in the quality of the sound, and for that CDs are clearly the best.