Inspired by the “first album you bought yourself” thread, I am curious to know…what was the last album you bought on vinyl, before switching exclusively over to cassettes or CDs?
I never bought cassettes…I went directly from LPs to CDs, so mine was kind of late…it was Paul Simon’s “Rhythm of the Saints.”
Guns ‘n’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction 
Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Months later it died when someone sat on it at a party. We buried it in the Keebler tree on campus, and I didn’t replace it until it was out on CD as my room mates always had copies.
Can those of us who still buy LPs regularly play? For me it was Volume 8 of the Girls in the Garage anthology series (great compilations of all-girl 60s garage rock reissues).
*Badfinger *Badfinger (1974)
It had a song on it I like, “I Miss You”.
Cost $5. I liked the cover .
BTW Sgt. Pepper was the first. 
I’m 40 and I have never once in my life bought an album on vinyl. By the time I started buying music I went straight to cassettes.
As I recall, the last album I bought on vinyl was The Best of Kansas. I also own this on cassette and CD.
What’s “vinyl”? 
Actually, I’m plenty old enough to know, and plenty old enough to have lots of them, but someone had to say it!
About five years ago I bought a copy of Public Image Ltd’s Metal Box in the original, er, metal box.
Mrs. Mercotan thinks her last one was CSN & Y’s “Deja Vu”.
Me, I generally was into 8-tracks in the late 60’s and cassettes in the early 70’s.
Sure! I have purchased some Pearl Jam and Nirvana LPs since I went to CD, but mostly just as collector’s items.
Original London Cast Recording of Les Miserables.
I won’t count the albums I bought after I decided I was going to go back to the turntable, a plan which fizzled after I realized I’d have to make a bit of an investment in equipment, since I didn’t have much to start with. Among those were some choice old Elvis Costello records, Joe Jackson, Kate Bush, Beatles…
So I guess it was probably Peter Gabriel So
I haven’t bought vinyl since I lived in Seattle, and in 1990 I was into blues guitar, so my last vinyl was probably Robert Cray.
Or it could have been Garth Brooks, but you didn’t hear that from me.
I’ve never bought a vinyl album in my life. By the time I finally started getting interested in music (high school, early ‘90s) CDs were the big thing, and I jumped headlong into that. I’ve probably bought less than a dozen cassettes in my life, as well: a few Iron Maiden albums, The Pogues’ Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, and maybe one or two Anthrax tapes. Everything else has been digital.
Bongo’s Bongo’s Bongo’s! at a garage sale.
Sadly it did not live up to its hype.
I haven’t finished buying albums yet. I only buy ones that haven’t been issued on CD, and may not be issued on CD at all, or are unique in some respect. I can’t remember whether the last records I bought were Tim Curry’s three albums on A&M - Read My Lips, Fearless and Simplicity, plus a promotional 12" single of I Do The Rock and Paradise Garage (from a web store in England) or an exceedingly rare James Taylor 2LP bootleg, Live In New York November 1972. Whichever the order, those were my last two record purchases. Hooray for the internet, I’ll never have to browse through racks of dirty albums again!
I bought my first CD in 1989. It was a Beatles bootleg of studio outtakes, with duff notes and false starts and breakdowns, and the engineer and George Martin speaking on the talkback. I heard these recordings, and I was hooked. I had about 40 of them before I even had a machine to play them on.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s Greatest Hits. By this time, I was buying CD’s exclusively. I bought the vinyl recording strictly as a collectors item. I have not played it, nor even had it out of the package, as I don’t even own a phonograph any longer.
I’m mostly the same way (I’m 38), but, while vinyl was never my medium of choice, I did buy a not-insiginifcant number of albums on vinyl when they were unavailable on cassette, and/or they showed up cheap in the discount bins.
I had to use my parents’ stereo to copy them onto cassette so I could listen to them, though.
I don’t remember which was the last one I bought.
Gong’s Expresso, only because it was something of a collector’s item because Expresso was reissued as Gazeuse. Prior to that, beats me.
