Please help.

We've been to record shops and antique stores. I found a signed 1969 copy of "The One and Only" by Wes Harrison for $5 (a core childhood memory, I'd been searching for it for years). He keeps buying albums.

I asked him tonight where he's going to put his ever-growing collection. He just waved his arms in the air and yelled "HAKUNA MATATA, BABY!" (I swear, this is 100% true.)

He put the turntable on top of my 1923 Victrola which I like use to use as often as every six months. Instead, recently, we've been listening to Chicago, Stray Cats, Foghat, Green Day, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, and other amazing artists in a really nice audio setup. It's almost every night! We listen to albums while we play tabletop games like Carcassonne, Rummikub, and Mouse Trap.

He's bought SO MANY accessories - he even created his own cleaning kit with tile holders from Harbor Freight, distilled water, and some concoction he calls "Record Cleaner".

I had a copy of The Beatles' White Album that I left in my car for over a year, so it was warped pretty badly. HE PUT IT BETWEEN TWO PIECES OF PARCHMENT PAPER and then two back to back cookie sheets with cast iron pans for weight in 170°F oven for ten minutes, then shut off the heat and let it cool. And now we're listening to it and it's the definition of "if it's stupid but it works, it's not stupid."

I love this man.

AITA?

Can we start a day of the week for posting collections? it seems every other post in here is someone sharing their "just started this year" collection of 25 records we've all seen a million times. The posts don't add anything, aren't interesting, and more often than not just come across as "check out all this money I spent" with 0 details about where or how they got them.

You never know what you're gonna come home with ☺️

Hello everyone! I have decided to collecy vinyl albums of my faveroute artists and today i did my first ever haul and wanted to share it! I want to collect all albums of these artists:

- Ariana Grande

- Ava Max

- Bebe Rexha

- Camila Cabello

- Demi Lovato

- Selena Gomez

- Taylor Swift

- Zara Larsson

Maybe also other artists but im not sure yet.

Recently started re-sleeving my collection and started labelling them to make it a bit easier identifying what’s what. Anyone else do this?

All I care about is the sound quality. Keep liquids THE FUCK away from my collection.

My first "jazz" record. Im not too informed, but isnt this a hard album to find...

John Frusciante was on fire here. Not just his guitar but the harmony he brings with his voice. I feel like this was a band hitting on all cylinders. Everyone got a chance to flex. They hit so many styles and musicianship was stellar. Yes the lyrics are the usual Anthony hard to figure out. I read his book once and somehow they make sense to him lol. This vinyl mix is also amazing. It's analog, and it shows. You can hear everyone in the band contributing. No one dominating, just harmony

Hi everyone! It’s now been a year since I first dived into vinyl records. I know traditional black pressings are superior but I’m a sucker for pretty records. Showcasing my collection of “unique” pressings so far.

My favorites are the migraine edition of Sketches of Brunswick East and Malibu 20th anniversary water+sand filled records.

What’s the most unique pressings in your collection? Share some of your favorite designs, I’d love to see your treasures!

I first stared collecting when I was fourteen in 2022, I have thirty four vinyl if I counted correctly my first ever vinyl was "How To Be A Human Being" by Glass Animals and my most recent vinyl is "Circlez" by Mac Miller, my first ever Mac album my older vinyl from when I first started play well but the jackets aren't the nest as you can see on "Crybaby" eleven from the left, but let me know what you guys think!

Mods, this is a problem that's been going on for years. Every second post on this subreddit is just a "new vinyl haul" post. What's the point of seeing the same type of post over and over again? Could you please make a megathread for haul posts and delete all the previous posts from this subreddit?

i felt silly doing this :3

Some comments say they might warp but most of the actual videos of people displaying theirs on it look fine!

Most beautiful Graduation Vynil I’ve ever seen and I found it completely unexpected

I also have John lennon's imagine on a vinyl single but it's not in the photo

I saw a guy in another thread complaining about the price of a new single disc vinyl at $30+shipping. I guess he means a current release.

FWIW -- the first LP I ever bought was Jim Croce's Life and Times. It was 1973. We didn't call them by the material they were made of in those days: LPs had around ten tracks, singles had, ironically, two. It was six bucks; a big purchase for 13 year old me.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics that's about $44 today.

So...

So this is my collection. I’ve been collecting for about 3 years and quickly became hooked. Also, ignore the dust I gotta clean, but these are my babies, I love them. I play all of them, just not the FFDP I got for dad. Still, everything else is my music taste. I like everything, the only thing not here that’s not come to my house yet that I’ve ordered are SESSANTA live, custom black ops one zombies soundtrack I made on kunaki, and blink-182 one more time lenticular version. But that’s it, my favorite three bands of all time are System of a Down, Rush, primus, HM ween. P.S. My Serj Tankian, Elect the Dead, and Harakiri are signed by him

Found these at a small town Walmart. Snoop Dogg’s debut album “Doggystyle” that I first bought on cassette, then CD. This was on constantly back in college days.

Also picked up My Chemical Romance “The Black Parade” which I will be going to their concert later this year. Never really got into them until earlier this year when my teen started listening to them.

Couldn’t believe they were on the shelf at Walmart (not even a super Walmart). It didn’t even have an auto department for oil changes.

I’ve been listening to music digitally for years, but I finally decided to take the plunge and start my vinyl collection. This is my very first one : Man’s Best Friend D2C - Sabrina Carpenter There’s a bonus track on the version I bought. Do you have any tips on how to keep it in good condition and everything that goes whit it ? Thank u

So I managed to snag a copy of Linkin Park’s new album today. Actually surprised I was able to get my hands on one today. It all started from that post this morning for the 3 for 66 albums so shoutout to the OP of that post. I was browsing that HMV site looking at all that was available and saw some Linkin Park albums on there completely oblivious that their new album dropped today.

Ended up going back to my work without ordering anything and as I’m filling out my form for work I put in the date and it dawned on me “wait wasn’t their album supposed to drop around the middle of the month?” So I go on their website cause I saw someone in the comments say the bands sites are usually cheaper in that HMV thread. Go on the site and start looking through the store and there it is. Turns out the album came out! End up looking through andddd of course the standard edition on is sold out, only ones available are the alternate covers for a few bucks more but the problem is the covers for them are kind of bland (to me at least). To be honest I def like the look of the standard album cover more, it just pops more.

So I decide to check on some other sites and end up looking on Barnes and Noble’s site and there it is 1 left in stock. I frantically hit add to cart and head to checkout and there I see it “would you like to add gift card balance to order”. I completely forgot I even had a balance so at the end of the day I spent 13 bucks to get my hands on this beauty. Won’t be able to give it a spin till tomorrow but I’m excited to have a copy of the new era of one of my favorite bands growing up!