# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/21 "2007-05-10T01:32:26Z")
IIRC, the last vinyl album I bought new was Elton John’s _Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra._ The last vinyl album I bought used was either the Boomtown Rats’ _Fine Art of Surfacing_, Flash and the Pan self-titled, or the Knack’s _Get the Knack_. That would have been about 1990 or so; I was always a little behind the times. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/22 "2007-05-10T01:34:30Z")
Up until a couple of years ago, I was still actively collecting old vinyl. The last LP I bought was a German pressing of [The \*\*\*\* of the Mothers](http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/compilations/The ______ Of_The_Mothers.html). (The last vinyl I bought–not an LP–was “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.”) The last _new_ LP I bought was [Grow Fins Vol. III](http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/14301.jpg) by Captain Beefheart. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/23 "2007-05-10T01:51:45Z")
**Kate Bush’s latest album, Aerial** , just a few months ago. We already had the CD, of course, but we buy all of Kate’s albums on vinyl because the artwork is usually so great (and you can find the hidden “KT” symbol she puts on all her albums easier). We still have over 1000 albums. My god, I never want to move again. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/24 "2007-05-10T02:03:34Z")
About 2 years ago I stopped by a tiny old record shop in the boonies. I was ready to buy some country oldies (I was on a 50s/60s C&W kick), but the selection was pretty poor. I ended up buying a copy of the Bee Gees’ _Main Course_ for two dollars. The last new thing I bought on vinyl was the Beatles’ _Live at the BBC_ in 1994. I think it might have been for the novelty for buying LPs with the Apple label after not doing so for 20 years. Plus the first record I ever bought was _1967-1970_. Now that I do most of my listening on iPod, I kind of wish I’d bought the CDs. Coincidentally, I just set up my turntable after it’s been in storage for 2 years. What to play… ---
**Author:** ![Capa84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8edcca/32.png) [@Capa84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capa84)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/25 "2007-05-10T02:26:17Z")
Actually I just bought Jackal&Hyde-Lost Archives on vinyl, and I’ll be picking up another 400 or so records this weekend. (I just got a great deal on a set of Technics 1200M3 turntables and Pioneer pro mixer. I was looking for a hobby to take up a couple of hours of time a night, and around here if you want to host afterparties when the clubs close, they are always more popular if you actually have tables and DJs spinning) edit-and I just won Kiss by Prince, 12" extended on Ebay as well too ---
**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 10, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/26 "2007-05-10T02:27:52Z")
[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] That is so weird…I am also 40, and I have a bunch of LPs (maybe 300, I think?). But I did start buying them before cassettes were popular, and since I had a pretty good collection going, I just stuck with that format. ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/27 "2007-05-10T02:43:01Z")
Well, I’m scratching my head and I think it was AC/DC’s _Back in Black_. I have, but did not purchase, _For Those About to Rock_. I’m 40 and most of my vinyl was inherited from my dad and my step-dad. So I have Marty Robbins, Johnny Horton, The Kingston Trio, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young), some classical, Neil Diamond, Eagles, Beattles, etc. I also got back my old records when my step-dad got rid of his vinyl. Shaun Cassidy, Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, David Soul, Donny Osmond, so on. However, my step-dad frisbeed my Village People albums, so they are gone forever. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/28 "2007-05-10T02:50:03Z")
Richard Pryor’s “Was it Something I Said?” Damn, what a great record. I dubbed it to a cassette and listened to it with my friends in the car back in high school. Ah, memories. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/29 "2007-05-10T02:52:44Z")
**Uriah Heep** , _Sweet Freedom_ baby. I still love that one. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/30 "2007-05-10T03:33:49Z")
The new Wilco, _Sky Blue Sky_. Doesn’t come out until next Tuesday, but I pre-ordered it. I haven’t bought any in a few months; the last was The Hold Steady’s _Boys and Girls in America_. (If you’re a Hold Steady nerd, I highly recommend it, if only because it comes with a comic book of all the lyrics.) Yeah, they still make it, and nerds like me still buy it. ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/31 "2007-05-10T09:58:23Z")
It was a LONG time ago. Art Garfunkel’s ‘Watermark’ album. Love it. I’ve got it on CD, also. It’s my ‘mellow out’ album. ---
**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 10, 2007, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/32 "2007-05-10T10:15:35Z")
ARe they ( the man) still issuing LP’s at all? ---
**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/33 "2007-05-10T11:14:23Z")
I think the last album I bought when albums were still a mainstream format was “Universal Juveniles” by Max Webster. Cassettes were the perfect medium for a while though, as turntables never caught on for automobile use. I still buy them, mostly releases from the 50’s and 60’s, the high point for vinyl. Vinyl records are still being produced but not in any serious quantity since the early 1980s. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/34 "2007-05-10T11:22:46Z")
The first Melissa Etheridge album. Would have been late 80s sometime. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/35 "2007-05-10T12:19:13Z")
Hard to say, but my best guess is John Fogarty’s Centerfield. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/36 "2007-05-10T12:22:47Z")
The original recording of Chess. $2 at the thrift store. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/37 "2007-05-10T14:53:40Z")
Whew boy, good question. I was the first person I knew to have a cd player so it’d be pre-that. I’m guessing Zepplin’s In Through The Out Door and that was because of the hype about the sleeve changing colors when it got wet. ---
**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 10, 2007, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/38 "2007-05-10T15:04:38Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] The original recording of Chess. $2 at the thrift store. [/QUOTE] I wangled that from a vinyl-collecting friend of mine. He loves vinyl, but he doesn’t love showtunes, so I figured I needed it more than he did! I LOVE that album! ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/39 "2007-05-10T15:20:06Z")
I was just looking over my vinyl records and I cannot tell for certain which was the last purchased. I would guess it was in the mid-80’s, since I seem to recall purchasing a spiffy stereo system with a CD player in about 1986 and getting my first CD’s shortly after. I see that I have the vinyl recordings of the Star Wars trilogy soundtracks, but I think I got those in about '85. Probably the last vinyl would have been something by Vladimir Ashkenazy, or possibly Laura Brannigan. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-album-you-bought-on-vinyl/403451/40 "2007-05-10T15:38:30Z")
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