Who still has all their old records?

Our boxroom is full on HD's old vinyl records....he got units made especially to hold them all....he will never get rid of any of them, he's got about 400...roughly. He tells the kids that they are their inheritance.

i still have a lot of my old vinyls, i still buy on vinyl if i can. theres nothing quite like listening to music on vinyl.

my duaghter once asked me when i was playing them, why are those cds so big!

I gave all of mine to Crusty when I returned back to Dublin last September.

Even a whacko jacko one that wasn't mine. Some were crap but some Floyd in there.

Brought back great memories when I found them in the bottom of my wardrobe. They hadn't been looked at in 7 years!!

My neighbour gave me a couple of hers when she moved recently. Guess it looks like I'm building up a collection here again.

I just need to buy a record player. (are they still called that???)

Only ever owned about three (!), and no I didn't bother keeping them. although, given the reluctance of my mother to throw anything out, there is a possibility that she still is in possession of a few

Never had that much cash as a kid, so it tended to be copies on tapes rather than vinyl, and even then it wasn't as if I had what could be termed "collection". Ther were always mates who would go to the bother of copying and playing them. Much easier to chill out in a mates place than my own gaff

Martin, that "foreplay" on the 42A sounds like a particularly saucy episode from a Mills and Boons novel. Sealed by the Sticky fingers comment

"He lovingly caressed the plastic and clutched it to his heaving bosom, eager for the moment when he could unleash it in the privacy of his own home" etc etc

I still have all my vinyl and would never part with it. Last time we changed our stereo I insisted on getting a massive big one with a turntable rather than one of those neat little micro-systems that only play cd's (soulless things that they are).

For me, one of the things I like best about vinyl is the artwork. There is nothing like a great album cover for visual impact. You just don't get that with a cd. I'm a big collector of vinyl by The Mission and all their early artwork for singles, albums and 12"'s was done by a woman called Sandy Ball who drew wonderfully intricate stuff. The album cover for God's Own Medicine is still one of my favourites to this day. Iron Maiden's album covers (featuring Eddie) also spring to mind as brilliant visual pieces. It was an artform in itself.

That aside, there's something wonderfully nostalgic about taking out a well-worn piece of vinyl, caressing that black shiny disc and carefully placing the needle to hear those first scratchy notes. Wonderful...

Jen

 

i have a bucket load of mission records too! ebay here they come!

tupelopenny wrote: i have a bucket load of mission records too! ebay here they come!

Would you not just burn them Brian

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I have my vinyl.. I didn't have loads back in the Grove days but I went through a phase of Sale of Works and Car Boot sales and built up my collection both 7 inch, 12 inch singles and albums. My prize collection would be my U2 collection I have their vinyl single including an original U2-3 12inch with the sticker removed from it Grrr!!! but I got the autograph of the 4 of them on it so happy days. Other little gem is Ozzy "Crazy Train" David Bowie "The Laughing Gnome"...

First album I ever got was "Prince Charming" Adam and the Ants(Did I ever tell you I dressed up as him one Halloween!!
First single.. I plead the fifth... Rolo its worse than "He who not not be mentioned"

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Ah vinyl, you know me better than that Colum!!  (as I think do most of the gang on here at this stage!).  Still have all the old vinyl (I think I actually own about 11 CDS, as I dont really like them).  Vinyl rocks, so to speak!!

Didn't know that, a boat trip might be fun.  Come back with a big box of rescues.

 

Mel has the best gatesleeves I have seen.  Hawkwind's Space Ritual. Huge!!