Your vinyl record collections

Thought it might be fun to discuss our record collections. I have been building up a small collection for the past few months. I get most of them pretty cheap at thrift stores. (Goodwill, Value Village, Salvation Army, etc...)

Here's what I have so far (some just for the goofiness factor):

- Santana - Santana
- Emo Philips - E=MO²
- Emo Philips - Live from the Hasty Pudding Theatre
- Meco - The Wizard of Oz
- UFO - Strangers in the Night
- UFO - Obsession
- Supertramp - Breakfast in America
- Tiny Tim - God Bless Tiny Tim
- Herbie Hancock - Future Shock
- Tomita - Bolero
- Heart - Heart
- Heart -Dog & Butterfly
- Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
- Ghostbusters OST
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Love Beach
- Rock 'n Roll with Fat Albert and the Junkyard Band
- Van Halen - 1984
- Van Halen - 5150
- "Sit on It" - Fonzie's Favorites
- Karl Farkas und Ernst Waldbrunn - Hor'n Sie sich das an!
- Mr. Dressup
- Mister Rogers - Let's Be Together Today
- Steve Martin - A Wild and Crazy Guy
- Steve Martin - Comedy is Not Pretty
- Star Wars OST
- Huey Lewis and the News - Picture This
- Huey Lewis and the News - Hip to Be Square EP
- Huey Lewis and the News - Sports
- Huey Lewis and the News - Fore!
- 2001: A Space Odyssey OST
- Bob and Doug McKenzie - Great White North

I am going to be getting some Huevos Rancheros records soon, and hopefully Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" sometime. :)

I love the insides of the Steve Martin records:

Haha !

You miss some Iron Maiden though. Yeah, that's a small collection for someone who can get cheap occasions. Just a beggining let's say.

Around Paris you would find what to fill a vault very fast. It's vynil land !

Keep in mind I live in a very small town and only started buying them a few months ago. Doesn't matter how cheap they are if you can't find them. ;)

I would like some more rock and metal for sure. I hope I can get more Van Halen. Deep Purple would be nice. Same with Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

I have a grand total of two vinyls. First one is the the Star Wars read-along story book. The other one is a recent piece of Bioshock 2 swag, in the form of a real vinyl with a recording of the Rature (National?) Anthem, from the somethinginthesea.com viral marketing thing (never played the viral marketing game, but heard people who wrote to a certain address were getting free stuff, so thought I'd give it a try). 

I have often thought of digging through the massive piles of vinyl they have at places like Good Will, but have always found the massive piles too overwhelming and time consuming to mess with. If I had a turntable, then I'd definitely put out a greater effort.

C3PX said:

I have often thought of digging through the massive piles of vinyl they have at places like Good Will, but have always found the massive piles too overwhelming and time consuming to mess with.

Yeah, it did take me a long time last time I was there, but it was worth it, as it was in a town 45 minutes away and I hardly ever go there. If it was local, though, I'd probably go often enough to [hopefully] spot the new stuff by itself.

Oh, and I totally forgot about the old Star Wars read along albums! I actually had more of them on cassette than vinyl. I can't remember which were which now. I'll have to go look.

Ripplin said:

Keep in mind I live in a very small town and only started buying them a few months ago. Doesn't matter how cheap they are if you can't find them. ;)

Obviously. Anyway, having everything you can dream of around you is not totally an advantage. You may learn more when you are "poor". ;)

I would like some more rock and metal for sure. I hope I can get more Van Halen. Deep Purple would be nice. Same with Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

 There was a time when I was going to some friends and listen old metal albums through vinyls... Wow ! A real travel through time ! CD's lose everything about this genre.

Your first comment reminds me a Steven Wright joke: "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" :)

Besides the 'time travel' feel, CDs also lose a lot when it comes to album art. There are some that I wish I could see in 12" x 12" format. The art is a big part of the reason why I'm getting vinyl.

I've got loads - Beatles, Lennon, U2, Michael jackson, prince, Simon and Garfunkel, Elton John, Dylan.... too many to remember or list.

One cool one I do have is an original 1977 Star Wars OST that a friend gave me - I was looking through her records one christmas day and I was blown away by her SW record and she just said 'keep it, merry christmas'.

Anchorhead said:

Ripplin said:

....and hopefully Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" sometime. :)

 

Are you looking for that one because you're a fan of Tijuana Brass, or Dolores Erickson?

;-)

Well, it is good music, and it is a good cover... So to answer your question, yes.

I found my Star Wars readalong vinyl. Only two; "Planet of the Hoojibs" and "The Ewoks Join the Fight". The weirdest one is "Rebel Mission to Ord Mantell", which is a cassette, but was in the packaging of an LP.

I got a bunch of records from my grandmother tonight. I just picked which ones I thought I'd like to hear. Lots of Tommy Dorsey, Pete Fountain...

and...

Way to many to list, I'm a vinyl junky. Lately I been playing Howlin' Wolf "Moanin' In the  Moonlight" and Stephen Stills "Just Roll Tape" alot. They sound so damn good now that I have a decent rig. I'm running a Rega P3 with a Herbie's Way Excellent II mat and a Audio Technica OC9 MKII cartridge. I couldn't live without my old ipod video at work or in the car, but at home I play pretty much only vinyl.

ferris209 said:

I have a TON of old country and bluegrass vinyl. Best stuff ever!!

I like bluegrass. Any Bill Monroe? Scruggs & Flatt? Del McCoury? :)

Well it has shortened quite a bit over the years

all original pressings

Dire Straits- Dire Straits

Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent

AC/DC - Let There Be Rock

Jethro Tull - Broadsword and the Beast

The Who - Face Dances

J Geils Band - Freeze Frame

A Flock Of Seagulls - A Flock Of Seagulls

Pantera - Far Beyond Driven

Black Sabbath - Vol 4

The Doors - L.A Woman

Pink Floyd - Meddle

I had more, but I started selling them on ebay.

My classical music is too large to list.

Anchorhead said:

Ripplin said:

....and hopefully Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" sometime. :)

 

 

Are you looking for that one because you're a fan of Tijuana Brass, or Dolores Erickson?

;-)

I have a plethora of Tijuana Brass albums that I got from my dad.