Anyone Collect or Still Listen to Vinyl?

[BoneSnapDeez]

Metal on vinyl is usually limited edition and expensive as hell. Plus, many albums are long and need two LP records.

[TheRev]

Remember in Wayne's World 2 when Wayne and Cassandra were in bed she said to Wayne

"It's a Shame they don't make Vinyl anymore, Bobby said My album will never be on Vinyl"

Oh, Bobby said. Are you and Bobby having an affair?

LOL, but yeah, a movie quote isn't where you should get your facts from.

Movies are how I passed my psychology classes

oh wait...no they weren't

Metal on vinyl is usually limited edition and expensive as hell. Plus, many albums are long and need two LP records.

All I want is a Vinyl Copy of Master of Puppets.

And maybe Seasons in the Abyss.

Also Ride the Lightening.

So some Slayer in a Metallica Bread sandwich.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Metal on vinyl is usually limited edition and expensive as hell. Plus, many albums are long and need two LP records.

All I want is a Vinyl Copy of Master of Puppets.

Bone, I can agree, but then again, I'm happy to pay $20 or so for a special edition picture disc. Also, it looks sexy as hell on my wall.

Rev, be jealous, I have a picture disc version of Master of Puppets. It smells like incense (the store I bought it from, Sundance, used to burn and sell incense and "water pipes/glassware" all the time... I miss that place.)

[TheRev]

Metal on vinyl is usually limited edition and expensive as hell. Plus, many albums are long and need two LP records.

All I want is a Vinyl Copy of Master of Puppets.

Bone, I can agree, but then again, I'm happy to pay $20 or so for a special edition picture disc. Also, it looks sexy as hell on my wall.

Rev, be jealous, I have a picture disc version of Master of Puppets. It smells like incense (the store I bought it from, Sundance, used to burn and sell incense and "water pipes/glassware" all the time... I miss that place.)

I'd probably go for the Japanese Vinyl. As is my understanding the Japanese vinyl is of highest quality.

Though the Picture disc would be pretty sick too.

[AppleQueso]

Bone, I can agree, but then again, I'm happy to pay $20 or so for a special edition picture disc. Also, it looks sexy as hell on my wall.

I've never cared for picture discs.

$20-30 seems to be the typical price for a metal album, and that adds up really fast. That's if you're lucky and some label still has it in print. Even then you've got to hope that the current pressing is even worth a damn. If I get into this, I'd want to really go all the way with it and built up a healthy collection, not just one or two albums, so yeah...

Anything OOP with any sort of cult status you can expect to seriously be dishing out dough for.

[TheGrimAngel]

So it turns out my dad left his entire collection of vinyl stuff in my moms basement after the divorce. She said if I came home and moved it I could do whatever I want with it. I have never done anything with Vinyl before, and I have no idea if there is anything worth while left over. All I know is that the box he left it all in is about 50-60lbs.

[o.pwuaioc]

So it turns out my dad left his entire collection of vinyl stuff in my moms basement after the divorce. She said if I came home and moved it I could do whatever I want with it. I have never done anything with Vinyl before, and I have no idea if there is anything worth while left over. All I know is that the box he left it all in is about 50-60lbs.

Vinyl gets heavy fast. I didn't even take any of it when I moved to California because of the weight. I finally rescued it when I moved to NYC. Also, make sure to take care of them, such as not stacking them. The weight can crush them if not properly stored.

[TheGrimAngel]

So it turns out my dad left his entire collection of vinyl stuff in my moms basement after the divorce. She said if I came home and moved it I could do whatever I want with it. I have never done anything with Vinyl before, and I have no idea if there is anything worth while left over. All I know is that the box he left it all in is about 50-60lbs.

Vinyl gets heavy fast. I didn't even take any of it when I moved to California because of the weight. I finally rescued it when I moved to NYC. Also, make sure to take care of them, such as not stacking them. The weight can crush them if not properly stored.

I have no idea how it is stored, I haven't been home to see it in a while. I may not do much with it.
Hell I may just post pictures here, and if anyone wants something I'll just ask for the shipping and send it to em.

[Hobie-wan]

So it turns out my dad left his entire collection of vinyl stuff in my moms basement after the divorce. She said if I came home and moved it I could do whatever I want with it. I have never done anything with Vinyl before, and I have no idea if there is anything worth while left over. All I know is that the box he left it all in is about 50-60lbs.

Cool, hope you find some interesting stuff in there.

As was stated, you really don't want 'stacks of wax'. They need to be standing up vertically like books so they don't crush each other or get warped.

[sonic2041]

It's not a matter of analog vs digital. If analog signals could be stored without any degradation, they would actually be superior.

Sure they would be but they can't be, since transferring, creating, and playing degrades the recording. Physical/analog means a physical exchange of matter takes place...in rough terms that means that some matter is taken off of a record, tape, etc. and transferred to a device that decodes it into audio...that doen't happen on a CD, which is read digitally, and which won't suffer any loss in audio fidelity over time simply due to it being played.

Weren't things stored as analog on laser disc. But I guess that would still degrade.

I'm a fan of CD's though. I play them mostly from lossless rips on my computer, but sometimes I like to play the actual disc through the much higher quality DAC in my receiver.

I've always wanted to get a high quality set up for vinyl but right now money and space are an issue. Sometimes I use my parents set-up to listen to records, while I can appreciate it, from the physical aspect of it, I still prefer CD's.