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. 
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. (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 by Captain Beefheart.
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.
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…
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
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.
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. 
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.
Uriah Heep, Sweet Freedom baby. I still love that one.
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.
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.
ARe they ( the man) still issuing LP’s at all?
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.
The first Melissa Etheridge album. Would have been late 80s sometime.
Hard to say, but my best guess is John Fogarty’s Centerfield.
The original recording of Chess. $2 at the thrift store.
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.
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!
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. 
*The Wall * by Pink Floyd
