What was the last vinyl record you bought?

[Taverner]

And it doesn't count if you're one of those hipster audiophiles who still buys turntables and vinyl records.

Me? Pearl Jam's "Ten"

[Chan790]

1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid.

I still have it somewhere, but I have no turntable.

[elocs]

2. I need to read better. I though you said the "first". The last I can't remember. n/t

[MorningGlow]

3. U2

Joshua Tree. Went to cassettes after that.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Shaun Cassidy.. no wait. I don't think I did get that one. Steppenwolf, then

[PeaceNikki]

5. Beastie Boys "Paul's Boutique" on January 27, 2009

The album was re-released in a 20th anniversary package featuring 24-bit remaster audio and a commentary track.

[pokerfan]

6. Pictures At An Exhibition (Telarc label)

I think... Once I started buying CDs, I never looked back.

[Archae]

7. Star Trek 2, The Wrath Of Khan.

I bought the album in 1982.

Who knows where it is now.

[sohndrsmith]

8. Jethro Tull: Passion Play. n/t

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. Neil Young & Crazy Horse, "Broken Arrow"...not his best, not his worst

[Tikki]

10. I just bought a copy of 'Snake Handler' by...

Divine Horsemen from a private seller.


Tikki
Nobody has ever accused me of being hip.

[Bennyboy]

11. Dire Straits...Brothers in Arms...

Bought it one day, and then got the CD for my birthday the next. never looked back.

[gmoney]

12. "The Longest Day" by the Del Fuegos

Probably the last anyway... I rigged up my computer to convert some of my LPs to digital, and that's one of my favorite records that never came out on CD, and I found a "mint" copy on eBay (rather than converting my scratched up one). This was a few years ago. It's since been re-issued on CD, so it was sort of a waste of time.

I think eventually record companies will wise up and make their entire back catalogs of out-of-print music available in digital form, even if they don't issue it on CD.

Verve tried this a while back... and there are a few on Amazon... not sure if it's catching on though.

[LiberalAndProud]

13. I don't remember.

It was probably through RCA record club, because they still enforced the subscription after the hook when I was in it.

Six albums for 99 cents... oh lord, save me.

[Brother Buzz]

14. The Best Of Louis Jordan

Used. A replacement.

[NoPasaran]

15. The Jack Kerouac Collection

[Gabi Hayes]

36. is that the one where he reads his work, including the sax performance from On the Road?

I have the CD of that, no vinyl

I do have The Fugs' Belle of Avenue A on vinyl, though

'she wore a tiny pushup bra, made from the eyelids of an elephant'....something close to that, anyway

[HopeHoops]

16. I'm pretty sure Pearl Jam's members were still in elementary school at the time.

It would have been in the early 80's at any rate. I got a bunch of them when they were still in stores so I'm not sure which specific one. I've still got them all - and have a working Techniques turntable hooked into the stereo (the kind with the strobe light speed adjuster). Then again, I've also got a LaserDisc player hooked up to the system (and a lot of discs).

[CBGLuthier]

17. Local Hero Soundtrack

Played it twice and it started skipping on my very good quality equipment. Vowed to never buy cheap wobbly discs again.

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. Oh, you've disqualified me. But it was a few months ago - can't remember which one.

[realisticphish]

19. I have never bought a vinyl record nt

[mitchum]

20. Rev C.F. Franklin's sermon "The Prodigal Son" on Chess

[driver8]

21. Swimming Pool Q's -- "Blue Tomorrow"...not available on cd.

I just read that it is being re-issued on cd -- can't wait!!

[TorchTheWitch]

22. absolutely no idea

but it was probably more than one since I used to go to a used record store and buy several at a time.

[sarge43]

23. I believe Carly Simon's Anticipation n/t

[LynneSin]

24. Led Zeppelin's "Mothership" and Green Day's "21st Century Breakdown"

Best Buy is selling Vinyl

[Broken_Hero]

25. ....

http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Chipmunks-Vol-1/dp/B000002TBE

:blush:

[av8rdave]

26. Bob Seger's American Storm

Nothing like ending an era on a low note!

[Iggo]

27. The Wall -- Pink Floyd

It was right around then. Mighta also been Aerosmith's Night In The Ruts.

But The Wall sounds so much cooler, so yeah, The Wall.

[jmm]

28. Does it count if you were shopping for one of those hipster audiophiles?

One year for my brother's birthday (About ten years ago. I think it was his 21st.) I bought him everything A Tribe Called Quest released on vinyl. He took them to get signed years later when we met them and Phife said he hadn't even seen one of them before.

[greendog]

29. My CD collection seems to have started in '92....

....and I was mostly buying cassette tapes after '84.

So it would have been something that was unavailable on tape purchaced between "84 and '92. Maybe an old Nico album bought in a second hand record store? I really can't remember.

[progressoid]

30. Phillip Glass - The Photographer

A couple years ago.

[Hangingon]

31. "Manhattan Tower" by Gordon Jenkins

The 1948 Decca version

[MiddleFingerMom]

32. Two probables: Pink Floyd or Arlo Guthrie/Pete Seeger...

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...and odds are on Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" as I must have gone through
half-a-dozen copies of that. It was my/our lullaby album -- playing each and every
night at LEAST when we were ready for sleep.
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But I remember being bowled over by Guthrie and Seeger's live duet album "Precious
Friend" and I'm pretty sure it was first marketed as a bootleg with no other formats
in which to buy it.
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.
Guthrie has the most incredible version of "Old Time Religion". I used to LOVE singing
"waltzing naked thru the woo-ids" and "I'm a Zarathusra booster".
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.
.
CHORUS:
Give me that old time religion
Give me that old time religion
Give me that old time religion
And that’s good enough for me

Let us pray with Aphrodite
Let us pray with Aphrodite
She wears that see-through nightie
And that’s good enough for me

CHORUS

We will pray with Zarathustra
We will Pray just like we use ta
I’m a Zarathustra booster
And that’s good enough for me

CHORUS

We will pray with those Egyptians
Build pyramids to put our crypts in
Cover subways with inscriptions
And that’s good enough for me

CHORUS

O-old Odin we will follow
And in fighting we will wallow
’Til we wind up in Valhalla
And that’s good enough for me

CHORUS

Let me follow dear old Buddha
For there is nobody cuter
He comes in plaster, wood, or pewter
And that’s good enough for me

CHORUS

We will pray with those old Druids
They drink fermented fluids
Waltzing naked thru the woo-ids
And that’s good enough for me

CHORUS

Hare Krishna gets a laugh on
When he sees me dressed in saffron
With my hair that’s only half on
And that’s good enough for me

CHORUS

I will rise at early morning
When my Lord gives me the warning
That the solar age is dawning
And that’s good enough for me

CHORUS
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[TroglodyteScholar]

33. Anodyne - The Remixes EP

Got it in the mail earlier this week. Black Dog, Autechre and Lackluster remixes all on one 12"! Beautiful....


http://www.discogs.com/Anodyne-The-Remixes-EP/release/2335753

[BlueJazz]

34. Hello....Mr. Watson...Mr. Watson...Can you hear me?

[kimmerspixelated]

35. Interesting question. For we who are at the age that lived thru

45's, then albums(vinyl), 8 tracks!!! and cassettes B4 the age of CD's, this is a brainquest!
I believe it was the early 90's and I bought Joni Mitchell's Chalk Mark In A Rainstorm. Wow, thanks for the cerebral stretch.

[tigereye]

37. OMG, I have no idea. We haven't have a working turntable for years, it's kind

of embarrassing, considering how music-obsessed we are. :hide:


I suspect it was an EP from one of various friends' bands. Now you've made me curious.

[Gold Metal Flake]

38. 5.6.7.8.'s "Eddie is a sweet candy" single about 5 years ago. n/m

[Capn Sunshine]

39. I think it was Stan Ridgeway's solo post Wall of Voodoo

Drive She Said was the hot tune from that
The Big Heat, title tune

[Kolesar]

43. I bought an armload of closeout vinyl at Record Exchange when they were switching to CDs

Bought a lot of Robin Hitchcock and other non-memorable non-hits. I gave them all away a month ago.

[Sky Masterson]

40. Cake. Motorcade of Generosity

About a year ago

[Kat45]

41. I don't remember, but it would have been in the early nineties.

I tried to cling to vinyl for as long as possible, but I was writing for a music magazine at the time, and the record labels would either send you a cassette tape or a CD. I broke down and got a CD player because I didn't want to get the useless cassettes.

[LawnKorn]

42. Last new vinyl was Hewy Lewis and the News - Sports

NEW in 1983

The last vinyl I bought at a yard sale was a couple of months ago.

[Arugula Latte]

44. Possibly a 45 (remember those?) of the Talking Heads "Burning Down the House"

[Maccagirl]

45. Last album- Armed Forces (Elvis Costello)

Last single- Walking on Sunshine (Katrina and the Waves).

[PassingFair]

46. My husband bought me this one for my last birthday.

I had mentioned casually that I wanted it and he FOUND IT!






I wanted it for this particular song, which is hard
to find:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSfAYnI3MBc&feature=related

"But I'm happy just to be... a part of all I see..
When I turn 'round to look at you, and you look back at me."

[hyphenate]

47. I suppose it would have been a toss-up

Between one of Billy Joel's albums or a soundtrack of some film. I can't quite remember, though it was before 1984.




Wait! I was wrong! Actually, the last album on vinyl I bought was very recently. It was an album by Rick Ely. who most people wouldn't even know. He was one of the actors who has enough popularity that he can release an album, back in the early 70s. It was his only album. He isn't/wasn't a bad singer, and he at least picked enough songs to which he could sound credible. I had just been thinking of him when I got over to Amazon and found it. A friend taped it to CD for me.