# Last album you bought on vinyl **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 9, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451 "2007-05-09T21:30:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/1 "2007-05-09T21:30:36Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![wendigo1974](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@wendigo1974](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wendigo1974)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/2 "2007-05-09T21:45:51Z")
Guns ‘n’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/3 "2007-05-09T21:54:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![lexan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@lexan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lexan)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/4 "2007-05-09T21:56:56Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/5 "2007-05-09T21:57:07Z")
\*Badfinger \*[Badfinger](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000024L01.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg) (1974) It had a song on it I like, “I Miss You”. Cost $5. I liked the [cover](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000024L01.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg) . BTW Sgt. Pepper was the first. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/6 "2007-05-09T21:59:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/7 "2007-05-09T22:00:13Z")
As I recall, the last album I bought on vinyl was _The Best of Kansas_. I also own this on cassette and CD. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/8 "2007-05-09T22:01:16Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/9 "2007-05-09T22:19:24Z")
About five years ago I bought a copy of Public Image Ltd’s _Metal Box_ in the original, er, metal box. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/10 "2007-05-09T22:31:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/11 "2007-05-09T22:58:54Z")
[QUOTE=lexan] 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). [/QUOTE] Sure! I have purchased some Pearl Jam and Nirvana LPs since I went to CD, but mostly just as collector’s items. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/12 "2007-05-09T22:59:49Z")
Original London Cast Recording of _Les Miserables_. ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/13 "2007-05-09T23:05:33Z")
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_ ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/14 "2007-05-09T23:20:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/15 "2007-05-09T23:31:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/16 "2007-05-09T23:32:14Z")
**Bongo’s Bongo’s Bongo’s!** at a garage sale. Sadly it did not live up to its hype. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/17 "2007-05-10T00:08:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/18 "2007-05-10T00:12:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/19 "2007-05-10T00:28:18Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur866] 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. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/20 "2007-05-10T01:26:12Z")
Gong’s **Expresso** , only because it was something of a collector’s item because **Expresso** was reissued as **Gazeuse**. Prior to that, beats me. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451.md?page=2)