Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2170616)

Who here is old enough to remember the care we used to have to treat albums with? You remember slipping off the dust cover (always slide it on so that the opening is at the top, though some people preferred either side - never the bottom or you could have a broken album on your hands!) then sliding the actual inner sleeve out, tapping the record gently into your hands, being careful not to touch the surface with the fingers, handling it gently (flat of palms holding the sides carefully) onto the turntable? Lifting the stylus, checking if there was any fluff on it, if so blowing it gently off before lowering the needle?

The annoyance when you accidentally hit into the record player and the album would skip? Turning the album over when side one ended to hear the other side? Flicking through boxes/racks/shelves of albums in your local second-hand record store looking for bargains? Decorating the inner sleeves with your own art? Learning all the lyrics? Admiring the cover art? The smell of the inside cover of a gatefold album?

















Share your vinyl memories, from a time when playing an album was more than just selecting a file or pressing play on your ipod, when listening to music was a real pleasure and quite the ritual, when once you'd bought an album you'd listen to it many times as that was the only new one you could afford.

I suppose I'll never go back to vinyl, but it's nice to think of those days.

Originally Posted by Tristan_Geoff (Post 2170620)

Um, don't the majority of members here listen to vinyl currently?

Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2170639)

Do they? News to me. I know Rostasi and Innerspaceboy do, but other than that I was not aware. Anyway it's not about listening to vinyl now, it's about how it was back then, when that was your only choice. Now, if you want to, you can choose CD, digital download, YouTube, Spotify, whatever. Back then, you listened to albums on vinyl or you didn't listen to albums (except on cassette tape). They're the kind of memories I'm trying to evoke: a time when vinyl was king, when vinyl was a necessity, not a choice.

Dianne: quelle belle collection! (or something) - very nice. I think I have about 450 albums in all, none of which have been played in the last ten years, not since the Great Crash of '02 - literally: my shelf containing my CD player, turntable, amp, speakers and CD Recorder came off the wall and everything fell on the floor. Nothing was actually broken (I think the perspex lid on my record player got a crack in it, but nothing more than that) but I never bothered putting the shelf back up, and shortly afterwards I started playing music digitally and that was the end of that. Bought a USB turntable in about, I don't know, 2010 maybe? It's still in its box.

Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2170639)

Do they? News to me. I know Rostasi and Innerspaceboy do, but other than that I was not aware.

Originally Posted by Exo (Post 2170689)

I run/manage a popular tri state area record shop and have 1400 LPs in my collection.

Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2170691)

I remember Haram selling out immediately and unsuccessfully calling a bunch of record stores to see if they had a copy a couple of weeks ago. Good times.

Originally Posted by Marie Monday (Post 2170692)

I actually started collecting vinyl a few months ago, one of the consequences of corona restlessness