I wonder how many of you have a record player? Do you buy LP records?

My brand x record player has served me faithfully for over 15 years. I don't really buy LPs anymore however, and focus more on 12" singles. I love 12" singles.

sextonseven said:

Same here..

Have two turntables,

but haven't bought any records in quite a while...



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I`m thinking of getting one simply because i want to listen to records that haven`t been released as CDs. There`s so many 70s albums i would love to hear, like the old Aretha Franklin albums that Rhino left out when they released her music on compact discs.

i have a little stand-alone antique looking turntable that i got for xmas one year and hardly ever listen to. sometimes when i'm out thrifting and i find a really cool old tacky LP, i'll buy it and listen to it. but that's a rare event.

yes

as long as they keep makin' them, i'll buy them and play them.....i just like the sound better than a cd or mp3

yeah, I still have my Fisher Price one. My first album was a Smurfs album. I had to share it with my brothers. My parents have the one that I really want though. They never use it anymore, so it's pretty much mine.

AnckSuNamun said:

remind me to never loan you any of my vinyl.

I knew you guys appreciate the good old record players
My father have an old, that haven`t been used in over 20 years, i don`t even know if it works anymore :hmmm2:
Like i said, what i think is so great about having one is that you can listen to music that`s not available on CD. I haven`t used a recordplayer before, but isn`t it difficult to skip tracks?

Icicle said:

fuck i'm old. it's not that difficult to skip tracks unless you're listening to Lovesexy.

sinisterpentatonic said:

Icicle said:

Is that a serious question?

Just lift the needle up at the end of a song and drop it at the beginning of the next song you want to hear. The gaps between tracks are clearly visible on vinyl--even Lovesexy.

Yep. Nothing too fancy, just a Sony.

Of course. How else can you play these...



...


I purchased these 2 rather rare LPs...



...a few months ago. (The Johnny Smith Quartet & Soul Crusade by The Mandala)


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Sorta inherited it from my mom. She said she had to special order the turntables for each of her newer stereo systems

Now these...







...are some serious turntables.

TransRotor - http://www.transrotor.de/...index.html

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I got one !!

Have it wired through my PC, Awesome !!!!

Vinyl will never die ..... Only Warp and melt ....lol.

I used to have an Amstrad Hi-Fi tower system, weighed about the same as a Buick !!!

The one I have now is an Aiwa and has lasted about 10 years with the same stylus !!!!

Yep.


Got myself one of those 30 year old, big-ass furniture pieces that we've had forever and a day. Also have a few hundred or so vinyls I inherited from my dad. I don't need to buy any of those Time Life CD collections, because I already own the best of all genres of music from the '60's and'70's.

I have that one that Restoration Hardware was sellin a couple years back.. its cool.

got Amnesiac (radiohead) a pm dawn single record, Beatles, Pauls' "McCartney", Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.. etc.. some pretty good stuff

My Grandfather has one, whenever I'm there I play a little Sam Cooke and Brooke Benton. I want one though, I think he would let me have his, but I'm afraid to ask.

Yes, I have!

In the springtime I love to play my Prince LPs like "Parade", "Purple Rain" and "Around The World In A Day"!
It's a very cool feeling to me...

Yes,I have a record player and I still buy vinyl albums (new and used).

of course

sinisterpentatonic said:

lovesexy's easy...you can see the grooves between tracks on the vinyl. i didn't know what people were talking about with it being "one long track" until i got the cd version a year or so later.

Anxiety said:

really, you can't! i know on the second pressings of it you can but not the first or at least my copy.

theAudience said:

i don't know what else to say but.....

sinisterpentatonic said:

hmmm. i got my copy of lovesexy on vinyl the day it came out (i can even tell ya the store - the strand, speedway indiana ) and it had all the grooves separating tracks in it. weird.

Anxiety said:

My copy looks like a 12".

I had one when I was a teen. One of those that had a dual cassette deck attached. During that time I was a 45 and 12 fiend. I bought a few LP's...but prefered cassettes. Due to the dual cassette deck, I was able to make many comps on cassette from my 45 and 12" purchases. Then it broke. Then I moved out and was just a cassette boy.

After several years I was able to afford a stereo system. I wanted 2 things...a receiver that had more inputs that you could shake a stick at and a record player. I use it often enough now. I also make it a point to look for vinyl when I go music shopping. I have several rare pieces of vinyl.