Yes, but not for very much mainstream stuff. It’s mostly hip-hop and dance (for the DJs and turntablists) and independent rock (for the music nerds), plus the occasional classic reissue. Go to a non-corporate music store, particularly one near a college campus, and you’ll see all kinds of it.
How about “The last album on vinyl you found on the street”? Last year I was walking around Manhattan going to a gig when I saw a stack of LPs leaning against a lamppost next to a trash can – there were probably about a hundred or so. So of course I had to look through them. In the middle of the stack were the first 5 Bill Cosby records: Right!, I Started Out as a Child, Why Is There Air?, Wonderfulness, and Revenge, all of which I had given away before a move years before. I had a jumbo guitar case, so I slipped those suckers right in.
For those under 30: yes, there was a time that Bill Cosby was actually funny.
IIRC, it was “The Sport of Kings” by Triumph, bought used, circa 1986-87. I don’t remember the last new LP album I bought.
From the Inside by Alice Cooper (1979)
How funny - I just addressed this in This post. I’m pretty sure it was Open Up and Say Aaah by Poison. And the uncensored cover, too!
Joe
Another 40 year old here. I went into the Navy in early 1985. Once in I only bought Cassettes and CDs. So my last album was probably the soundtrack of “The Yellow Submarine”. It would have been the only Beatles album by older Brother did not have. The other possibility was the Pink Floyd’s soundtrack to More. I gave all my albums aways a long time ago. I think I only had 70. I gave all but a handful of cassettes away about 7 years ago. I had hundreds. I have about 450 CDs.
Jim
Emerson, Lake and Powell’s self-named album (in 1986), because I couldn’t wait the two weeks extra for the CD (they didn’t always come out together).
Made an interesting bookend to the first vinyl album I bought, Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s Brain Salad Surgery.
I didn’t buy it, but the last vinyl album I got was Flogging Molly’s Swagger album. It was a going away present from a close friend. If it were more convenient, I’d probably get all my favorite albums on vinyl.
ETA: album was released in 2000, but I got it in 2004.
I’m not sure which LP I last bought to really listen to… I bought my first car in 1979 and it had an 8-track player in it, so from 1979 - 1981 (when I joined the Navy and sold that car) I bought my music on 8-track. Once I joined the Navy I bought cassettes. So my last LP to listen to as an LP was probably either Rod Stewart (the one with “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” on it, heaven help me) or a Judy Collins album – probably “Hard Times for Lovers.”
That said, I just last week bought two albums off eBay. Neither is available on CD or iTunes, so I bought them specifically to send to a service for copying onto CDs. One is my dad’s favorite Roy Clark album (Superpicker), and it’s going to be a early Father’s Day gift for him. The other is the Tom T. Hall album “The Storyteller.” It has my favorite of Hall’s songs (“Windy City Anne”) on it, which I haven’t been able to find anywhere else. The records were ~5 bucks each on eBay with the shipping, and the conversion will be about 20 bucks each, also including shipping.
In 2004, I bought the 30th anniversary release of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon on vinyl. That’s the most recent sealed vinyl I bought anyway. I bought a couple used Beatles’ vinyl LPs since then.
Eh, I’m only 24 years old. All of the vinyl records ( 30 of them ) I have were purchased within the past 5 years.
Azure d’Or by Renaissance.
Come to think of it, I never did replace it with a CD. I should do that. Great LP.
I replaced it with two CDs. The old CD (on the Thunderbolt label) was poorly mastered, so I kept the vinyl. The newer CD, on Wounded Bird, is better (and cheap, too).
Thanks, Biffy.
OP, you’ve just succesfully made my head explode. I have no idea what the last vynil ( is that even spelled right?, it’s been so long) album I bought. I’m thinking maybe “Nothing Can Stop Us” by Robert Wyatt.
Omar and The Howlers- “Hard Times In The Land Of Plenty”
I’ve seen several ads on craigslist for people who will convert vinyl to mp3 or cd/dvd for people for a fee. Since I now have 2 relatively high quality turntables, I wonder if this is a viable way to make some extra,easy quick cash…does anyone here see a real need for this market?
Frank Zappa - London Symphony Orchestra, Vol II
Still got the reciept, too. $9.71 with tax. 04/30/88.
Friend of mine just bought a 180 gram, 45 RPM pressing of “The Vince Guraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas”. $50 for two records. :eek:
“Synchronicity” by The Police (but that probably shouldn’t count since it was a Christmas present).
I did buy Pearl Jam’s “Vitalogy” on vinyl but that was a birthday gift for my sister.
It was either R.E.M.'s Document or Frank Zappa’s The Man from Utopia. I can’t be sure.