I still play my record player after all these years. There's some 80's vinyl that I have that wasn't converted to cd. I still find sometimes I will stop at a garage sale and I will pull out a few gems either on LP format or 45. I guess vinyl will never die for some people like me.
Posted by EleanorJune (Member # 7024) on :
Vinyl will never die for me. I inherited my parents collection, and even some from my grandparents. I have a collection of over 500. I don't get around to playing them though. I had a never played LP of Michael Jackson's Thriller. You know the one with his picture on it. My cousin came for a visit and while I was at work she whipped it out and played it....yeah.
Posted by Tim Cappello (Member # 3594) on :
I have vinyl hung up all around my apartment. Just started a vinyl collection a few years ago(mostly 80s). Since I was born in the late 80's and missed the whole vinyl generation, so I'm just kind of getting going on my collection. Some of my prize posessions: Tangerine Dream - Rubycon Eddie Money - Playing for Keeps SIGNED! Johnny Be Good Soundtrack - SINGED by Anthony Michael Hall! Motley Crue - Too Fast for Love & Theater of Pain Miami Vice - 1+2 collections Huey Lewis and The News - basically everything Rocky IV soundtrack Duran Duran - Rio Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms Friday the 13th Series Score! The Warriors soundtrack Van Halen - 1984 Faster Pussycat - Self-Titled Back to the Future soundtrack Kiss - Destroyer
I hope vinyl makes a huge return one day, having the full artwork beats digital any day.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
I still have all my LP records of the 80's. I do still buy them off Ebay. The last 2 LP records I bought were the soundtracks to "Breakin", and Breakin 2-Electric Boogaloo.
I buy 45 records all the time, for my juke box. I bought about 20 really good ones this summer at a flea market.
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
Last month I went to a big record convention and picked up a lot of cool stuff. 80's soundtracks are a must, have a few already like the Wraith and Tuff turf, still looking for Savage Streets.
Only downside to vinyl is the storage options. A lot of records bundled together weighs a ton! If you are moving this gets tricky. And buying used vinyl can be tough with skipping and scratches. I have a few records that look like they are in perfect shape with no marks on them, but they skip.
Posted by EleanorJune (Member # 7024) on :
Sadley enough, mine are all in stacks on the floor in my spare bedroom. Not organized or anything. One day I will get around to it...hopefully
Posted by YourEyesCanBeSoCruel (Member # 7480) on :
so i'm very much so jealous of all of these vinyl collections i'm hearing of. I only have a few that I've picked up at Goodwill, garage sales, and pawn shops. My Favourite has to be The Breakfast Club Soundtrack. It may be a little scratched but it's okay.
Others I have are Pat Benatar, Cyndi Lauper, David Bowie, Aerosmith, The Breakfast Club Soundtrack, and I would have to look. I did take an old Eagles vinyl and turn it into a clock for a friends parents who just bought a bowling alley and Eagles is his mom's favourite band.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I have about 450 lp´s. Most of them are heavy, hard rock or aor vinyls.
I have 16 80s soundtrack albums on vinyl:
The Blues Brothers Creepers Dudes Fright Night Girls Just Want To Have Fun Hard To Hold Heavenly Bodies Johnny Be Good Near Dark Running Scared Shy People Tequila Sunrise Thief Of Hearts The Thing White Nights The Wild Life
Whenever i see interesting vinyls that are not too expensive, of course i will grab them.
Posted by xchazx (Member # 7158) on :
i still have all of my punk and hardcore lp's and 7"s from the 80's and a working record player. but i rarely ever use it anymore. i have most of my lp's on cd now. and the 7"s are just sitting there looking pretty until my kids are old enough and i can pass them down.
i have a lot of first issue stuff that i know is worth money but i'm not interested in selling them.
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
I never really had Vinyl LP's. Only a few. I always got the cassettes. I still have hundreds of them.
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
As far as 80's concerned, i really love those pic discs. Can't get enough of them even though I only have a few like Billy Idol, Siouxsie, Altered Images. They look so cool mounted on a wall. In fact my friend added a very cool touch for his 80's party when he got plastic mounts and put a bunch of classic 80's vinyl all along the wall, it looked amazing.
I have a bunch of tapes too, but there is just something where you get that thrill picking up a a great LP like Human League's Dare or even an X record and looking at the cover, the big format really works.
Posted by Chris the CandyFanMan (Member # 3197) on :
Actually they say vinyl's making a bit of a comeback these days, so hold on to whatever you've got (I myself still have several of the classic Disney vinyl releases (Mickey Mouse Disco, Splashdance, the Christmas and 4th of July albums)), because there may still be an outlet for them. Now, let's move on to another format that largely died in the 80s: the old 8-track. Anyone still have some of those? And if so, you think there might be a second life for them some time down the road?
Posted by buffalo-girl (Member # 7498) on :
i don't buy any vinyl now but i still have alot of albums from the 80's from the rolling stones to bob seger i may sell some of them but keep the ones i really love alot of people are buying them from e bay now your right! dee Posted by Tim Cappello (Member # 3594) on :
atomiK, Heavenly Bodies soundtrack!!!
How did you score that one?
Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
I have lots of 80's vinyl, with my favorites framed and hanging on my wall. I also have some old classics on vinyl, as well as a bit of jazz and big band stuff...I love Frank Sinatra. I'm hung up on playing music from each generation, on the players they would have been played in. To clarify, I have a vintage suitcase record player that I play all my jazz albums on, a vintage 80's ghetto blaster to play my cassette tapes on, I have a top loading VHS player for some of my 80's movies, etc. I typically stick to CD or DVD, but when I'm feeling nostalgic, I break open my vintage stuff. I love going back in time once in a while....
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Tim, i bought it from a flea market. Sometimes you just find gems like this one.
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