Do you collect vinyl?

Sir GH wrote: I have a ton of vinyl too.  Been collecting since I was a teenager.  Why spend $15 on a CD when an LP costs 0.99 ?  That was always my logic.

Ah, the memories, having virgin ears ... listening to Zeppelin, Queen, Van Halen ... for the first time in headphones..
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Albums were never 99 cents, ever, when I was making decisions about how to collect.  :(   I bought albums right into the late 80's/early 90's pretty much to their last dying breath.  And it's been CDs ever since.

And regarding Ultravox, I've got Lament on vinyl.  I loved that album so much back in the day.  Part of my problem now is deciding on a limited budget what I replace in a digital format from scores of cassettes and a few dozen albums.

JoxerTheDeityPirate wrote: Lostman wrote: Glad to hear you've got a lot of vinyl, guys. I hope I gather such quantity too.

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when i first started i had to scour old record shops
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That's at least half the fun!

Sir GH wrote:

Ah, the memories, having virgin ears ...

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Aural sex?

mooghead wrote: Dabbled in collecting vinyl a few years ago, remember, behind The Beatles, Queen are the most collected band of all. This makes it a very VERY expensive hobby.

A mint copy of a very well selling single from the 70's or 80' will fetch £10. 

Just starting your collection will require several hundred pounds. Once you get to the rare stuff then its time to sell your car. Or one of your children.

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being of a "certain age" i was able to buy many Queen stuff as it was released so The Highlander Collection only cost me £20 when it was released unlike now where the last price i saw for it was £400 :-p
it also helped that i had friends inside the record company that would get me white labels and press releases too! :-D

ThomasQuinn wrote: JoxerTheDeityPirate wrote: Lostman wrote: Glad to hear you've got a lot of vinyl, guys. I hope I gather such quantity too.

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when i first started i had to scour old record shops
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That's at least half the fun!
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except now that 90% of those old shops have gone the way of dinosaurs and Brian May's hair colour...

there is thankfully still one excellent one in Penzance and he does happen to be a Queen fanatic too [which helps]

GratefulFan wrote: Sir GH wrote: I have a ton of vinyl too.  Been collecting since I was a teenager.  Why spend $15 on a CD when an LP costs 0.99 ?  That was always my logic.

Ah, the memories, having virgin ears ... listening to Zeppelin, Queen, Van Halen ... for the first time in headphones..
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Albums were never 99 cents, ever, when I was making decisions about how to collect.  :(   I bought albums right into the late 80's/early 90's pretty much to their last dying breath.  And it's been CDs ever since.

And regarding Ultravox, I've got Lament on vinyl.  I loved that album so much back in the day.  Part of my problem now is deciding on a limited budget what I replace in a digital format from scores of cassettes and a few dozen albums.
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i know we are praising vinyl [and rightly so] on here but i do thoroughly recommend the new digital remastered versions of all Ultravox's albums on cd,they are truly fantastic and worth every penny with the bonus cd's of demo's/12"/live stuff

Yes, I collect vinyl. In fact, it was all a happy accident that I collect it. Right down the street from my school is a record store, and so once or twice a week I go there, and usually just browse, and put everything I want on hold, until someone buys it for me :P
But I collect Queen, Beatles, solo from both of those, Led Zeppelin Bob Dylan, Traveling Wilburys, Yoko Ono, Rolling Stones, and a bit of Ravi Shankar and Woddy Guthrie.
It's an expensive hobby, no doubt about it, but it's worth it. I've got 50+ Beatles albums, not including doubles, and just that cost me at least 800$. I've only got about 175 LPs, but it's only been a year and a half I've been collecting.

JoxerTheDeityPirate wrote:

i know we are praising vinyl [and rightly so] on here but i do thoroughly recommend the new digital remastered versions of all Ultravox's albums on cd,they are truly fantastic and worth every penny with the bonus cd's of demo's/12"/live stuff
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I checked out the remasters and they do have an impressive amount of bonus material.  Nice!  If you were to recommend, say, 2 Ultravox/Midge Ure albums and maybe a compilation, what would they be?

Regarding vinyl: to me it's a part of what serious music fans who are passionate about music do.  And I'm a serious music fan who is passionate about music, and that's why the whole thing kind of makes me a bit sad.   Maybe once my son is grown and moved out and I have more lifestyle flexibility I can revisit things and supplement my digital system with analog equipment again.

Though, here's something you can't do with vinyl.  I came home from work yesterday to pick up my son to bring him to the movie theatre.  Beeped in the driveway.  Nothing.  Beeped again.  Still nothing.  Sooo, took out the iPad, connected to my network inside, fired up the music management software and cranked - and I do mean CRANKED - 'Mustapha' inside the house. Within seconds he was leaning out the door with his hand on his chest jumped out of his skin, trying to be really mad, but being far more successful at laughing at me.  Handy!

^LOL!

i would recommend the remastered Lament and a n other if it was down to just a choice of 2,just for the excellent 12" versions on the bonus disc of Lament.probably pick Rage in Eden as the other one but maybe Vienna..ooh decisions! :-p
if you want a compilation cd,If I Was-the very best of Midge Ure/Ultravox is probably the best buy..just for Yellow Pearl and Fade to Grey on it

Thanks Pirate! I'll let you know what I end up picking up when I next order stuff.  'If I Was' was another song I really, really liked back in the day so I like your compilation suggestion quite a bit already.

MadTheSwine73 wrote: Yes, I collect vinyl. In fact, it was all a happy accident that I collect it. Right down the street from my school is a record store, and so once or twice a week I go there, and usually just browse, and put everything I want on hold, until someone buys it for me :P
But I collect Queen, Beatles, solo from both of those, Led Zeppelin Bob Dylan, Traveling Wilburys, Yoko Ono, Rolling Stones, and a bit of Ravi Shankar and Woddy Guthrie.
It's an expensive hobby, no doubt about it, but it's worth it. I've got 50+ Beatles albums, not including doubles, and just that cost me at least 800$. I've only got about 175 LPs, but it's only been a year and a half I've been collecting.

crazy little thing wrote: Ha! I never thought I'd see someone posting that they have Ravi Shankar in their vinyl collection on QZ. I have the LP of his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. I've been collecting albums since I was about ten years old. I have hundreds of albums. While I also have hundreds of CDs, the ritualistic experience of picking up an LP album, slipping the vinyl disc out of the paper sleeve, placing it on the turntable, carefully placing the needle on it, adjusting the volume/sound controls, and sitting back and listening to a record while perusing the album art and liner notes is an unmatchable experience. They're going to have to pry my vinyl LPs out of my cold, dead hands. Going to Joe's Record World (used record store in Maryland) is like a religious experience to me : )

I went to see the band Chicago last night. It was a great show that conjured up memories of going to gigs with friends at the San Diego Sports Arena (where all the greats played), hours spent flipping through the bins of records at the shrine, Tower Records, across the street, and stopping en masse for a taco and a Coke at Taco Bell after a gig before walking home. Good times. Really, really good times.

Yes i collect vinyl, why?