You're saying you only got a phonograph (turntable I assume) last year? Why not just get a USB turntable? Mind you, mine's still in the box: one day, I will unpack it! I used to have a turntable (being from the seventies/eighties generation it was for a while all we had to play music on, other than cassette decks) and have a sizeable collection of albums on vinyl (which we used call LPs; any oldies here know what that stands for?)
but the last deck I had came literally crashing down when my shelf collapsed, taking my CD player, CD recorder and amp with it, and I've just never got around to replacing it.
I never heard of an album of demos, sounds interesting although I am not a Beatles fan (put that gun away!) and less of a McCartney one (and that axe.. slowly now, careful...)
Good review though.