Your very first LP and you still have it?

yogev wrote: Jethro tull's Stand Up (original vinyl with the pop up art and all!), and Magical Mystery Tour

I'll say Stand Up as well, but my dad bought in 69.

I also still have my dad's Hair broadway musical soundtrack - but that was given to him as a joke from the office colleagues.

However, I kept my original Crime of The Century, Selling England, TotT, Grey & Pink, Harmonium debut Aqualung & TAAB as well. All of which were amongst my first 10 albums bought and canadian first  pressings.

Jared wrote: I'm afraid all my LP's were discarded in the mid 90's. I lived an itinerant life for several years, often out of the back of a suitcase with no home base, so it wasn't possible to keep them. For me, it would be far too expensive to start off again now, so I just make do with CDs, sadly.

Like you, upon my return to the old world at the start of the 90's, I was not a nomad, but had no space for such things in my life. So, I had brought a few back with me, sold some of it (the less important ones) and kept some at  buddy's place  for exportation when I would have the money. Unfortunately the buddy ended up selling them after his second move without warning me and wired me the money (he got some rather good prices considering the late-90's context). But that means I lost my original Crimson and a few more.

I've grown used with CD's user-friendliness and won't go back to vinyl (just make sure I still own some iconic gatefold sleeves), but I'm looking for the first four Crimson albums (preferably of the times, not modern reissues), just for the sake of owning them: the quality of the disc must not be as good as the sleeven, since I won't play the vinyl (despite looking to replace my broken TT).

How many records do you still have, Grumpy?

It'll be interesting to see who's purchase is the oldest one, and maybe the second and third.