Vinyl

nope you're not allone...

BUT!

there are still a number of records that are not released on CD, and with some titles I doubt they will ever be released on CD. Unless I make copy's by myself

so I keep my record collection. (also for the collectors items)

I even regularly play an old record. For nostalgic reasons? no...

now on my turntable is a collection of prog. songs called: Exposure (the first album). Not on CD  always fun to listen to.

Jim: i have just rummaged through my "extensive" vinyl collection which i havnt listened to in many many many......many years!! and found i had a grand total of....are you ready for this.....6 countem 6 albums!!! they are Godbluff by Van DEr Graff Generator,Salisbury-Uriah heep Moving Waves-Focus, Hideaway-LeatherWolf(what was i thinking?!!!!) Frampton comes Alive (Makes sense!, he wouldnt come if he were dead now would he!!!!) and finally Rainbow Rising-Ritchie Blackmores Rainbow. Thanks for reminding me i actually had a vinyl collection. stay safe

The LP player is in my room!

I own a few vinyls myself.

JonTaylor wrote: I still believe that vinyl was/is the best way to listen to music

Agreed - but only if you are going to listen once, immediately make a tape for daily use and never, ever, ever loan it out to anyone ever for any reason.

I had over 600 LPs when CDs hit, & soon put away the turntable. I'd like to have both now, but as a perfectionist, the "snap, crackle and pop" of the records (many sold, the rest far away in storage) would probably irritate me now. Still, I miss the size and impact of the old cover art (the artwork on Nursery Cryme, for example, with the "crackled" paint and "dead fly," is much more effective in the LP's larger format) and the clever packaging that often accompanied albums. Remember the Floyd posters and postcards, the Alice Cooper panties, the Sticky Fingers zipper, the Thick as a Brick "St. Cleve Chronicle" and the big booklet that came with The Who's "Quadrophrenia?"  

Sometimes I buy used classic albums (for example, Abbey Road) just for the cover art and historical value. If you don't really care about the condition of the tracks, these old "elpees" can be found for just $1-$3 apiece, and make great wall art for your rec room/listening room. I display one cover at a time on an old music stand. (Klaatu's first is currently on view....)

 Wow, Lookout, those sound like unique covers! Copper? Tar paper? Cool.

Of course, as I said, clever inclusions & materials aside, the very size of albums contributed to the listener's becoming more "immersed" in the artwork, and thereby "getting into" the music even more! Remember the artwork for Yes - Fragile, for example. You lose the  interior pictures with the CD, and Roger Dean's unique fantastical paintings are best seen big.

(No, nice of you to ask, but I have no connection to Lennoxville, as far as I know. My surname is common in Newfoundland, and the south of England.... Maybe I'm descended from King Arthur!)   

Doesn't Lennoxville (is that Tennessee?) have something to do with one of the bourbons?

Long May Your Big Jib Draw

(Smooth Sailing),

The Day I Started Hating Vinyl

So I loaned this guy (who was an AM radio DJ back in the days when there was still rock music on AM) my copy of Tommy Bolin's Private Eyes album.  He kept it for two months (loaning it out to other people, as I found out later).  When he finally got around to bringing it back to me it had been dropped in a mud puddle and stepped on.  The sneaker print was plainly visible on the disk and the sleeve was still wet from the mud.  

Even after that the sleeve and jacket openings were still lined up so it could fall out again.  Fortunately for him at the time, I didn't go to play the LP until after he had split from my place.

Karma caught up with him though.  Last time I knew he was trying to sell used cars at one of those street corner, former gas station used car lots.