Vinyl Junkies

Vibrationbaby wrote: Just noticed this thread.  I`ve been collecting vinyl since 1973. At last count I got to 3,500 and gave up. I don`t keep anything in anty particular order and keep on discovering stuff that I didn`t even know I had. Some of it is still in the original wrapping. Perhaps the biggest haul I ever made was buying this guy`s entire Amon Duul collection for 50 bucks back in `79. All German imports no inferior North American crap. I don`t buy albums because they`re rare or anything but for the love of the music. Long live vinyl.

Hmm ... well there are some some songs I like by Alpert and Tom Jones, there might even be a song or two by ol Glen I can handle. I guess this is enough to get me reported to forum abuse ha ha.

I once ran into a full B J Thomas (he's awful) discography at a thrift store. I couldn't believe how many albums he put out. I used to be such an obsessive collector that I almost bought all of them so I could have his full discography, ha ha ha.

Edited by Easy Money - July 21 2008 at 18:56

T.Rox wrote:   I spent some six hours going through every album in a second hand record store in Singapore recently. I don't recall seeing one Herb Alpert album while in there. What I do recall is the plethora of Tom Jones, Val Doonican, Andy Williams and Glenn Campbell albums this guy had on the shelves. It is amazing just how many different compilations of the same songs can made!

I have no idea who Val Doonican is, but I have seen my fair share of Tom Jones, Andy Williams, and Glenn Campbell albums.  But I think the record for most records here has to go to Mantovani.  Dude must have had a million different albums.  Either they all sold a billion copies each or they all came down to Florida and moved into thrift stores when the old people here moved into condos.  Either way he's all over the place.

Easy Money wrote: I once ran into a full B J Thomas (he's awful) discography at a thrift store. I couldn't believe how many albums he put out. I used to be such an obsessive collector that almost bought it so I could have his full discography, ha ha ha.

I once ran into what must have been an almost complete discography of the Bee Gees.  They were selling them 10 for a dollar and I thought about getting them but decided not to because I'd never listen to them and they'd just take up space.  That and my mother has an unhealthy hatred towards the Bee Gees, and she'd disown me if I bought them.

But at the same place I did run into a bunch of Elvis records and bought them.  I acutally ripped mp3s of them so I could put them on a CD for my grandmother.  They were all from the early 70's and quite boring, although the live albums were marginally entertaining.  Well the first one was, and the other two were exactly the same...

Vibrationbaby wrote: Even Elvis didn`t like BJ Thomas. I think he was one of the guys he would fire off shotgun rounds at the TV whenever he came on. Tony Bennet was another guy on the King`s hit list.

I thought that was Robert Goulet.  And I've run into a few of his albums as well.

If only I could have such luck with prog...

Maybe he just lost the remote?  

Good thread, vinyl truly rocks.Picked up minted conditions of Neil Young's ' After the Goldrush,Free's ' Fire and Water ' James Taylor's ' Sweet Baby James' and  Alice Coopers's ' Killer' all from a Oxfam Charity store near where I live.

I have hundreds of vinyls, my prize possessions are my Yes collection up to Drama.
Genesis from Trespass to Wind and Wuthering.
Uriah Heep 'Very 'Eavy Very Humble to Sweet Freedom.Are you reading Easy Living?
The only Refugee album..
Renaissance from ' Prologue to Scherrezade'

Vinyl is magical, it wreaks of imagination and mystery.Nothing better than from all those years ago standing in the schoolyard comparing album covers.

Great days and sadly they won't be repeated.

^Not to mention the fantastic Arkama reproductions of the really rare stuff, like Catapilla, Leafhound, Dr. Z and May Blitz

Vibrationbaby wrote: Viny is actually making a bit of a comeback. I`ve seen reproductions of Floyd albums with original packaging and posters. I`ve seen some ELP albums as well.being reissued on vinyl . Tubular Bells and Omadawn. as well.