Mr. Salinqmind is hard to buy presents for, but at arts n’ crafts stores and places where they sell picture frames, they often stock album frames - black aluminum squares with glass - about $12 - that you insert an album into and hang up on the wall. These are a sure fire hit. There is much picking and choosing and agonizing over what treasure to frame and hang up on the knotty pine walls of the rumpus room.
I must have several thousand vinyl albums and singles, and when I last moved in 1986 I unboxed and shelved A through about H, the rest are mostly still in boxes. One of these days I’d like to weed out the ones I now have on CD and sell them, but I’m in no hurry. I did unearth my turntable about two years ago and put a new cartridge on it (hard to find these days but Best Buy sells a decent Audio-Technica cartridge for about twenty-five bucks). This allowed me to record a rare single b-side to the computer to use in a blog article about the great Philadelphia band The Hooters, the song is “Wireless” and it was really awesome to hear it again after so many years that stuff was stacked two feet high on top of the turntable.
This is me. Especially the hauling-them-from-house-to-house part. And those suckers are in a big box made by my dad from 3/4 inch plywood, so the hauling part is HEAVY!
There are one or two I’ve not been able to find on CD or mp3, but the rest are a moldy burden.
I don’t plan on moving again until my last move into the ground, so all they cost me is a couple of square feet of basement space. And I have avoided having to dispose of them – my future grandchildren will have that joy. 
My husband and I between us had around 75 - 100 records and about the same number of cassettes. Nothing extraordinary or collectible. The whole magilla was shitcanned years ago. We don’t tend to be ‘keepers’ as a rule and rarely hold on to anything past the point where it isn’t usable anymore.
I made a couple of really neat body suits. It holds in all of our sweat, and the itching drives us mad with desire. Also the squeaking noises that we make when we…
What’s that? Read the OP?
muttermutterTURNTABLE, muttermutterLPs, muttermutterALBUMS…
Oh my.
nevermind.
The wife got me a custom turntable, built for ripping vinyl to MP3, for Christmas. That’s my summer project - converting 3000 LPs to files for the computer.
Just curious, once you’ve ripped 'em, will you get rid of 'em? :dubious:
Those of you having trouble finding cartridges/needles or whatever, just go to the professional music store in your town, or to any of the websites that cater to DJs. While the performance side (nightclub locations) of DJing has gone down the digital path almost completely, there are still thousands of bedroom DJs who play at parties or just for fun, so there are companies that make turntables and parts for them. I will ALWAYS have a pair of Technics 1200s, and although spinning on a CD turntable with hot cue points and loop creation and on board effects is nice, I still prefer to have my hands on the records themselves, holding a beat together, instead of flicking a plastic platter meant to represent the record on top of the unit…there is just a “closeness” you develop when you spin vinyl, because your hands are always on it, manipulating it, guiding it into the sound you want, instead of just pushing buttons on a motionless CD turntable.
I play them. Vinyl sounds better than a CD to me. I will get around to digitizing those that are impossible (or prohibitively expensive) to replace, but it’s hard to make the time, and I know the result won’t be as good as the original.
I have about 300 vinyl LPs. Rather than go through the tedious process of digitally converting them, I download free MP3s of the music from the Internet via LimeWire. Legally, this is no different than digitizing my LPs myself. (Copyright protects content, not mechanical format.) Having done that, it obligates me to not sell or give away the vinyl copy. I should either keep the vinyl copy or destroy it.
Probably not the answer you were expecting but we had ours in crates in the garage, left overs from a yard sale where we were charging 25 cents each (mostly 70’s rock) Then some pimply-faced moron, heartbroken over being dumped by his girlfriend, syphoned gasoline out of my car and set fire to the garage at 2 in the morning. If I wasn’t such an insomniac my whole family would be toast.
We got $1 for each one from the insurance company tho :-/
I play them occasionally. They are not the same as the remastered cd versions and I couldn’t get cd’s for some of them anyway.
In 1998, after moving about 6’ of vinyl to about 12 different address up and down the east coast, (and not listening to any of them after the first 3 addresses) Hurricane Georges filled our house with 48" of swamp and river water, mixed with the contents of the septic tank and the runoff from several small shipyards for 2 days. The records were ruined, to say the least. This was the only good thing that hurricane ever did for us.
Most of mine are on a rack in the living room and then there’s several boxes of overflow and singles, etc in cupboards. 10+ feet at least, plus 45s.
Some of it gets played most weeks, as, with a few exceptions, I tried not to duplicate stuff too much on cd that I already had, and I haven’t really embraced the download culture yet… If I want to listen to what I liked in the pre-cd era, out come the albums!
I quite enjoy hearing a lot of it, but I doubt I’d replace a lot of it if it vanished; pulling out a Captain Beyond lp, or some obscure dub reggae is one thing - deciding to spend time or money upgrading the format is another!
And album covers are so much better than cd jewel boxes…
Most of them, probably. I’ll keep a few - those with great cover art, albums with a memory attached to them, stuff like that. But most will have a cut or two ripped, then they will get ebayed or garage-saled. I’ve got a lot of junk in the collection. I worked for a record store for a couple of years back in the 80s, and I still have yards and yards of vinyl from the store bins.
I’ve got a carton of them, culled down to the ones I keep for sentimental reasons. I haven’t taken very good care of them at all, they are probably quite ruined by now, but I still have a hard time letting go.
A few years ago someone gave me a set of nine of the square frames, and I thought it would be neat to figure out some theme and arrange them on the wall – I had very lofty ambitions of figuring out groupings that would work up and down as well as side to side when arranged in a 3 x 3 square of frames – but I never quite got around to that and now the frames are sitting in a crate next to the crate with the LPs.
I have about 3000 LPs, which I play on an old Dual turntable. Most were acquired from yard sales in the 1990s, when everyone was getting rid of their collections. It was not at all unusual for me to bring home a couple dozen records a week (at 25 cents to a dollar each, generally). At one point I probably had about 1000 LPs that I had not yet listened to… then I hit on the idea of recording an LP onto a cassette tape each evening and listening to it during my commute the next day. As my rate of LP acquisition dropped off around 2000 (fewer LPs at the yard sales, and fewer sales attended – parenthood tends to get in the way), I started gaining ground, and I finally made it through the backlog a couple of years ago. Now I’m making my way through the whole collection, going back and listening more in depth to the ones I’m most interested in. I’ll probably be retired before I’m done with that.
I’m curious: what does the first half of the sentence have to do with the second half?
Being dumped was his motivation for trying to burn down the house. He also tried to burn down the boat club at the end of my street the same night. Sounds like a moron to me!
I still have it and when I get a table for my turntable that I can setup out of the reach of the baby I’ll still play it.
Of course I was a DJ so vinyl isn’t an anachronism for me.