I was cleaning out my closet the other day, and found a fairly big stack of records that I still own. I haven’t owned a record player in about 15 years, but I still have all these records.
I was curious if anyone else out there still had records, and what they were. I have:
Steppenwolf
Two Beatles albums
the Flash Gordon Soundtrack–It’s Queen who sings on it.
And an assload more that I’m ashamed of owning. Anyone else?
And, of course, an Elvis album or two.
Lots . Most of these figures are approx. They’re in my parents house where there is still a working turntable
Thin Lizzy x6
Iron Maiden x3
Metallica x3
Slayer x2
Anthrax x1
Black Sabbath x2
Deep Purple x2
Led Zep. x5
Meat Loaf ( take a wild guess 
)
Queen x2 (including Flash AAHHHHAA )
Sinatra x3
Elvis x2
and many more which I can’t think of now .
My Sister has all of Depeche Mode’s record including imports and special releases . You can tell by my records that musically we really got on great :rolleyes:
I have tons of vinyl, and I’m more a CD baby 
David Bowie (all of 'em)
The Cure
Blondie
And tons of others, altho I’m not naming them all
I have stacks of LPs from Disco to Madonna and a sealed container of old 45s going back through the 60s and possibly one or two 50s. I even have a 78rpm Davey Crockett record that weighs about a ton. It still plays.
When we moved house about two years ago, I did a quick estimate of how many LPs my husband has. I counted the number of LPs in one randomly chosen box, and multiplied that by the number of boxes. The estimate came up just shy of 1000 :eek:
We have a working turntable.
I have a few hundred records and only around 20 CDs. Highlights include:
Pink Floyd (just about everything through “Animals”)
Bonzo Dog Band (all five of theirs)
The Who (about 6)
Traffic (5)
Many more.
Nazareth: No Mean City
Def Leppard: On Through the Night; High and Dry; Pyromania
UB40: Rat in the Kitchen
Whitesnake: Whitesnake
“Still own”? Hell, I still buy new vinyl. Many of the bands I enjoy who don’t have major label contracts find 12" albums or split 7" singles a more cost-effective way to release their music. And I have a sizeable collection of old vinyl.
I still have all of them, except that my Saturady Night Fever album seems to have gone walkabout. The Wife claims no knowledge of its whereabouts…
I haven’t catalogued them recently, but from memory:
Beatles (all their albums)
Springsteen
Jethro Tull
Rickie Lee Jones
Leon Redbone
Weird Al
Billy Joel
Meatloaf
David Bowie
Fleetwood Mac
Supertramp
The Knack
Monty Python
Firesign Theatre
The Talking Heads
…and a whole bunch more (Rick Springfield? Blondie?)
We also own four CDs.
True Stories by the Talking Heads
Changes by David Bowie
The Beatles (the “White Album”)
and something in tribute to Elton John
new fangled stuff, its a fad, I tell you
Ah, if I’d saved my 45’s.
I had a few good ones.
Bought for 79 cents.
You would just have to bring up this painful subject, wouldn’t you.
Just before moving across country last year, I sold my entire record collection - about LP’s in all - in a garage sale. And it was quite the eclectic collection too. I couldn’t begin to list (or even remember) them all, but I’ll try . . .
Every Kiss album, originals not re-releases.
Almost every Queen album.
Aerosmith
AC/DC
Beatles
Robert Johnson
Little Feat
Billy Joel
Elton John
Frank Zappa
Quiet Riot (it was a Christmas gift - don’t mock me)
Runaways
Starz
Kansas
Heart
Blondie
Lover Boy
Billy Squier
Jackson Browne
CSN&Y
Lots more, but it would take me all day to remember them, and I’m starting to cry . . .
Should have been
"about 200 LP’s in all **
oops.
I’ve got about 500 vinyl LPs and I still go used-vinyl searching when I can locally and when time permits, while traveling.
I am a sucker for bargain metal and early alternative relics and will spend $50 on 40 (mostly) bad albums just to have them.
Yer pal,
Satan - Commissioner, The Teeming Minions
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*“I’m a big Genesis fan.”-David B. (Amen, brother!) **
I’ve got about 300-350 of 'em in boxes. Mosty easrly-mid '80 alternative music and a good hunk of classics from the early 60’s-70’s. One thing I don’t miss with records is moving. I have them in 1 foot square boxes and those suckers are HEAVY. I have a feeling Satan might have some fun looking through my collection. MMMM…imports.
Keith
All the music I bought before the age of 25 is on vinyl (I turned 25 at the end of 1985), and I still have almost all of it. Bach, Varese, Prokofiev, Dizzy Gillespie, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Stan Getz, Dock Boggs, Amos Milburn, Beatles, Dylan, Who, Dead, etc. I HATE buying anything on CD I already own on vinyl.
Really? Where can you buy new vinyl?
I have roughly 200 LPs mostly 70s and early 80s stuff. Nearly all the 70s stuff is R&B and includes:
Earth Wind & Fire
The Gap Band
Confunction (sp?)
The Whispers
O Jays
Spinners
Cameo
Donna Summer
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes (also have most of Teddys solo albums)
Parliamemt
etc.
Wanna oldschool Funk tape, drop me a line…
My vinyl collection (about 750 disks) was the one significant casualty of the fire in my apartment building several years ago. They came through the fire itself OK (the flames and heat were confined upstairs and down the hall from me), but in the couple of weeks after the fire, before I was able to get things moved out, someone broke in and hauled off what passed for my audio system (an old Yamaha amp and tuner, a cheap cassette deck, and a decent turntable I could no longer find styli for, running in mono through my old guitar amp cabinet), as well as two non-functional TVs. In the process, they rummaged through my LPs, decided that there was nothing they were interested in, and dumped most of them into the floor, proceeding to walk all over them as they hauled the rest of the stuff out (either that or they were pissed at not finding anything of real value and trampled them for spite). In light of everything else that was going on (having move most of my stuff into storage, replacing a significant percentage of my clothing, etc.), I decided it wasn’t worth the effort of sorting through to see what was salvagable and what wasn’t (besides which, the thought of reviewing the damage was just too painful to think about).
Consequently, I now lead a life without vinyl. I’ve replaced a surprising amount of the most treasured stuff with CDs, but it’s not the same as having in hand the same disks I used throughout my four years of college radio. And some things were irreplaceable, like the original Ardent releases of the first two Big Star albums, the first Swimming Pool Q’s LP (which has never been released on CD, AFAIK), my original Brinsley Schwarz releases (imports, of course), a ton of late '70s/early '80s British import singles with picture sleeves (The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Jam, including a bunch with Neville Brody-designed sleeves), the original single of Flipper’s “Sex Bomb” b/w “Love Canal” (with xeroxed picture sleeve), the original Berserkley releases of most of Jonathan Richman’s '70s output, as well as the BOMP! release of the Kim Fowley-produced Modern Lovers sessions, and so forth. As music, most of it can be acquired somewhere these days, but as artifacts, they’re gone for good.
I’ve got a “Coliseum Live” double album on vinyl.
Contains a 20 min track ‘Lost Angeles’ with a screaming guitar solo from the early 70’s. Anybody remember them? A Brit band, I do believe.