does any1 on here still got or collect vinyl. i have lots of vinyl from acts like madness and kiss

I run a record shop so am surrounded by it day in day out :lol:

I run a record shop so am surrounded by it day in day out :lol:

I really need to visit your shop

The most recent vinyl I bought was the limited edition version of Entreat Plus by The Cure from their official store (number 987/1000). It cost me £20, but it's selling on eBay for up to £200. I'm in two minds as to sell it or not. On one hand, a tenfold mark-up isn't to shabby. On the other hand, it's limited edition and has a cool marble effect to it. Decisions, decisions...

Interesting article from the Guardian a few days ago complete with a dig at little Justin :lol:

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/201...rds?INTCMP=SRCH

We have a vinyl player at home. The problem, there wasn't a needle so we can't use it. It was bought at a car boot I think? So, yeah. :lol:

 

I forgot what vinyls do we have though. Just about 2 or 3 I think?

Interesting article from the Guardian a few days ago complete with a dig at little Justin :lol:

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/201...rds?INTCMP=SRCH

Dear me. :(

Yes.

 

but my collecting sort of died in the oast few years due to lack of time and money, need to get back into it.

yes. i just got a bunch for xmas. <3 and recently went thrift shopping and got sum kate bush n talking heads n melanie records i was looking for.

I have about 5,000 LPs and 7"s. My BF bought be some foreign ABBA picture sleeve singles for Xmas :wub:

 

Check out my discogs collection si tu veux: http://www.discogs.com/user/TomKay

Vinyl's huge again - all the major collectible stuff is on vinyl these days - thanks to the Vinyl Factory and their gorgeous limited edition releases - their work with Massve Attack, Pet Shop Boys, Grace Jones and now the stunning Bryan Ferry releases have ensured everyday collectors can now own seriously collectible releases. I have lots of their stuff - the Massive Attack 12" for Splitting the Atom's worth hundreds of pounds now - as will the limited 12" they've just done for Atlas Air... grab one quick ;)

Vinyl's huge again - all the major collectible stuff is on vinyl these days - thanks to the Vinyl Factory and their gorgeous limited edition releases - their work with Massve Attack, Pet Shop Boys, Grace Jones and now the stunning Bryan Ferry releases have ensured everyday collectors can now own seriously collectible releases. I have lots of their stuff - the Massive Attack 12" for Splitting the Atom's worth hundreds of pounds now - as will the limited 12" they've just done for Atlas Air... grab one quick ;)

 

This doesn't surprise me at all. Vinyl will vary in popularity, but it will never become obsolete simply due to it's legacy and, well, there is just something about vinyl that is so hard to put your finger on.

 

For between 97 - 04, I bought house, trance, dance on 12'' and built up a collection of over 500, but I stopped after it became more and more expensive (plus the general decline in dance music and also the convenience of mp3 and CD, it's sad but true).

 

I did however buy Lady Gaga 'Telephone' on 7'' purely for the hell of it, I don't have a record player anymore but it looked so cool I just couldn't resist!

Edited January 11, 201114 yr by ScottyEm

I buy some picture discs... and some of the 7" singles released now, they're gorgeous - the Hurts ones last year, Florence, Bombay Bicycle Club, Antony and the Johnsons, Bat For Lashes... all of them in gorgeous packaging - which is the vital ingredient missing from MP3s...... artwork is almost as important as the music to me - and MP3 means absolutely nothing to me..... it's disposable, clinical and lacks.....information.

 

Sarfraz Manzoor has written a brilliant piece about the decline of HMV..... which is sad news as I'm an ex employee from many moons ago...... it sums up exactly how I feel about music being taken over by this supposed 'digital revolution'....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12151157

I've got loads from 60s & 70s

Can't play them though as my stylus is knackered and I don't know where I can get one

Edited January 12, 201114 yr by euro music

I've got loads from 60s & 70s

Can't play them though as my stylus is knackered and I don't know where I can get one

 

Does this help at all? http://www.musonic.co.uk/

Since 2008 I've had a USB record deck, which copies records direct to computer and onto my iPod. I can clean up the hiss and fix scratches as well. There's a load of music, especially from around the late 80s/early 90s that's really hard to find on CD, so my only copies are from records bought in charity shops. Yeah I could just find an mp3, but there's something about finding the record, copying it and cleaning it up that I really like - it's 'your' copy of the song, from your collection.

 

I have a few recent 7" releases as well. My favourite being a signed copy of La Roux's 'Bulletproof' - HMV were just randomly selling them off for £1.99 a couple years back!

I collect vinyl.

I don't buy CD's - so it's vinyl or downloads.

It's good to see that must vinyl albums come with MP3 codes now.

 

I live near Rough Trade East, so am in every week buying any good new 7"'s and LPs

 

My collection is into the thousands now ;-)

 

 

I've got stacks from when I was growing up and a hundred or so here and there from the past decade or so. I've given up on CDs and now I like to buy albums on vinyl where they give you a code to download the MP3s too. Most decent labels are doing this and it's nice to have the physical product and be able to copy it onto my iPod.

 

Bought the latest Pains of Being Pure at Heart 7" at the weekend and have the Ringo Deathstarr LP on pre-order.

I'm getting more and more

 

recent purchases

 

Pet Shop Boys - Actually, It's a Sin 12"

New Order - Lowlife, True Faith, Blue Monday, Round and Round, State of the Nation 12"s

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

It seems the sudden surge of the vinyl is possible a backlash to the download culture? I'm all for downloading, but to run alongside physical format(s) crucially.

There's been some great 180gram vinyl re-releases of late, too - most of The Smiths albums, Hounds of Love, Sensual World by Kate, the Cocteau Twins back catalogue (BEAUTIFULLY re-packaged by Vaughan Oliver :wub: ), and some of the ABBA albums, too.

 

Worth checking are the releases by Ben Watt's Buzzin' Fly label - a company that take graphic design to a whole new level - works of art, frameable, every one of them. Who wants a bloody download littering up your hard-drive that you forget all about after a fortnight when you can have real, tangible, product like this? There simply isn't any competition.

 

Then of course, there's the Lemon Jelly releases on vinyl - I have a lovely gold 7" vinyl in a hessian sack-cloth sleeve by them, and some gorgeous 10" singles, too, as well as their 2 'proper' albums (KY is worth a mint now - rare, too).

 

Vinyl/CDs are for music lovers..... downloads are for casual music observers. Definitely not for me.