Hangman_96 12.08.2011 18:32 |
Just wondering. I currently have 12 Queen LPs in my collection and I'm going to buy the first Kylie's album on LP soon. What about you folks? |
thomasquinn 32989 13.08.2011 04:12 |
I have hundreds of vinyl records, including some of Queen. A lot of music, especially jazz, just isn't available on cd. |
JoxerTheDeityPirate 13.08.2011 11:31 |
i collect 80's 12" singles |
catqueen 13.08.2011 13:15 |
I love vinyl, but don't collect it. My uncles have a huge collection though, i love looking through it. |
Thistle 13.08.2011 19:19 |
I have every Queen album, as well as all the solo stuff, on vinyl. I also have lots of foreign Queen releases just for sleeve or tracklist differences. Add that to my load of Queen picture discs, as well as every UK 7" and 12" (same for the solo stuff) before we move onto all the Billy Joel albums and singles I have lol. My mrs has an extensive REM collection on vinyl (which I bought most of lol) and between us we have a load of random LPs from bands like The Beates, Ultravox, The Darkness, The Who, Van Halen, Meatloaf, Pink Floyd, Lily Allen, The Traveling Wilburys, The Sex Pistols, The Doors, Status Quo and blah blah blah....you get the picture.....all on lovely, beautiful, awesome sounding VINYL!!!! To quote a famous QZ nutter.....ah yeah! |
JoxerTheDeityPirate 14.08.2011 03:15 |
glad to see im not the only one who collects Midge Ure/Ultravox stuff [amongst other bands] :-D |
Thistle 14.08.2011 03:58 |
JoxerTheDeityPirate wrote: glad to see im not the only one who collects Midge Ure/Ultravox stuff [amongst other bands] :-D ============================================================================================= I think Midge Ure is awesome :) |
Hangman_96 14.08.2011 09:19 |
Glad to hear you've got a lot of vinyl, guys. I hope I gather such quantity too. |
JoxerTheDeityPirate 14.08.2011 09:58 |
Lostman wrote: Glad to hear you've got a lot of vinyl, guys. I hope I gather such quantity too. reply: its a lot easier these days to collect stuff thanks to the interweb,back when i first started i had to scour old record shops and the monthly edition of "record collector" for my fix.. |
GratefulFan 14.08.2011 11:34 |
I still have a pile of vinyl from the 70's and 80's, but my turntable long ago went down for the count. It literally started smoking. It was a bit alarming. :) I've got shoeboxes and shoeboxes of cassettes I never listen to. Over the last 15 years what was once a really good stereo system has degraded piece by piece as time and little boy hands inevitably took their toll. Starting about 10 years ago I started to feel more and more separated from my music collection as it became harder to play on failing equipment and as the room it was in became increasingly taken over for family life of TV and video games. It had gotten to the point where the only place I was alone with my music was at work in my headphones or when I'd run away in the car. :) So, long story short, I've decided to go the other way and completely digitize my entire collection. I'm so, so happy with the results so far. I can get to my music which is on a NAS device from anywhere in the house and control it entirely walking around with an iPad. I've got a Sonos bridge on my router and one wireless Sonos S5 speaker system on my main floor and am saving up for one upstairs. In a perfect world I'd buy a third and make a stereo pair out of two of them. That and one more NAS device to serve as a mirror/backup/safepoint of the other and I'll be utterly content. I'd love to be an audiophile with vinyl everything and the world's best stereo system if my budget and life situation allowed for it, but it doesn't. So I'm in love with my wireless system for now. So there you have it. That's apparently how a woman answers the very simple, straightforward question "Do you collect vinyl?". :) |
mooghead 14.08.2011 16:34 |
Dabbled in collecting vinyl a few years ago, remember, behind The Beatles, Queen are the most collected band of all. This makes it a very VERY expensive hobby. A mint copy of a very well selling single from the 70's or 80' will fetch £10. Just starting your collection will require several hundred pounds. Once you get to the rare stuff then its time to sell your car. Or one of your children. |
The Real Wizard 14.08.2011 17:07 |
I have a ton of vinyl too. Been collecting since I was a teenager. Why spend $15 on a CD when an LP costs 0.99 ? That was always my logic. Ah, the memories, having virgin ears ... listening to Zeppelin, Queen, Van Halen ... for the first time in headphones.. |
The Real Wizard 14.08.2011 17:07 |
And speaking of Ultravox, I have Vienna on vinyl. Love that record to death. |
Mr Mercury 14.08.2011 18:34 |
Although I wasnt an avid collector of vinyl, I do still have a fair amount of long players in my possession. I was more interested in picture disc versions though, all of which I used to put up on display on my bedroom walls, My fave picture disc (besides my Queen stuff) was Magnum's "On A Storytellers Night" more so because I was into the Lord Of The Rings fantasy type stuff at the time. When cd's, and later on DVD's, came along it just wasnt the same. The artwork was too small to even think about putting up on a wall |
Hangman_96 14.08.2011 18:44 |
Oh, how I'm jealous to you all! |
GratefulFan 14.08.2011 19:27 |
Sir GH wrote: I have a ton of vinyl too. Been collecting since I was a teenager. Why spend $15 on a CD when an LP costs 0.99 ? That was always my logic. Ah, the memories, having virgin ears ... listening to Zeppelin, Queen, Van Halen ... for the first time in headphones.. ========================== Albums were never 99 cents, ever, when I was making decisions about how to collect. :( I bought albums right into the late 80's/early 90's pretty much to their last dying breath. And it's been CDs ever since. And regarding Ultravox, I've got Lament on vinyl. I loved that album so much back in the day. Part of my problem now is deciding on a limited budget what I replace in a digital format from scores of cassettes and a few dozen albums. |
thomasquinn 32989 15.08.2011 08:22 |
JoxerTheDeityPirate wrote: Lostman wrote: Glad to hear you've got a lot of vinyl, guys. I hope I gather such quantity too. reply: when i first started i had to scour old record shops ==== That's at least half the fun! |
thomasquinn 32989 15.08.2011 08:23 |
Sir GH wrote: Ah, the memories, having virgin ears ... ==== Aural sex? |
JoxerTheDeityPirate 15.08.2011 11:14 |
mooghead wrote: Dabbled in collecting vinyl a few years ago, remember, behind The Beatles, Queen are the most collected band of all. This makes it a very VERY expensive hobby. A mint copy of a very well selling single from the 70's or 80' will fetch £10. Just starting your collection will require several hundred pounds. Once you get to the rare stuff then its time to sell your car. Or one of your children. reply: being of a "certain age" i was able to buy many Queen stuff as it was released so The Highlander Collection only cost me £20 when it was released unlike now where the last price i saw for it was £400 :-p it also helped that i had friends inside the record company that would get me white labels and press releases too! :-D |
JoxerTheDeityPirate 15.08.2011 11:16 |
ThomasQuinn wrote: JoxerTheDeityPirate wrote: Lostman wrote: Glad to hear you've got a lot of vinyl, guys. I hope I gather such quantity too. reply: when i first started i had to scour old record shops ==== That's at least half the fun! reply: except now that 90% of those old shops have gone the way of dinosaurs and Brian May's hair colour... there is thankfully still one excellent one in Penzance and he does happen to be a Queen fanatic too [which helps] |
JoxerTheDeityPirate 15.08.2011 11:18 |
GratefulFan wrote: Sir GH wrote: I have a ton of vinyl too. Been collecting since I was a teenager. Why spend $15 on a CD when an LP costs 0.99 ? That was always my logic. Ah, the memories, having virgin ears ... listening to Zeppelin, Queen, Van Halen ... for the first time in headphones.. ========================== Albums were never 99 cents, ever, when I was making decisions about how to collect. :( I bought albums right into the late 80's/early 90's pretty much to their last dying breath. And it's been CDs ever since. And regarding Ultravox, I've got Lament on vinyl. I loved that album so much back in the day. Part of my problem now is deciding on a limited budget what I replace in a digital format from scores of cassettes and a few dozen albums. reply: i know we are praising vinyl [and rightly so] on here but i do thoroughly recommend the new digital remastered versions of all Ultravox's albums on cd,they are truly fantastic and worth every penny with the bonus cd's of demo's/12"/live stuff |
MadTheSwine73 15.08.2011 22:50 |
Yes, I collect vinyl. In fact, it was all a happy accident that I collect it. Right down the street from my school is a record store, and so once or twice a week I go there, and usually just browse, and put everything I want on hold, until someone buys it for me :P But I collect Queen, Beatles, solo from both of those, Led Zeppelin Bob Dylan, Traveling Wilburys, Yoko Ono, Rolling Stones, and a bit of Ravi Shankar and Woddy Guthrie. It's an expensive hobby, no doubt about it, but it's worth it. I've got 50+ Beatles albums, not including doubles, and just that cost me at least 800$. I've only got about 175 LPs, but it's only been a year and a half I've been collecting. |
GratefulFan 16.08.2011 10:22 |
JoxerTheDeityPirate wrote: i know we are praising vinyl [and rightly so] on here but i do thoroughly recommend the new digital remastered versions of all Ultravox's albums on cd,they are truly fantastic and worth every penny with the bonus cd's of demo's/12"/live stuff ===================== I checked out the remasters and they do have an impressive amount of bonus material. Nice! If you were to recommend, say, 2 Ultravox/Midge Ure albums and maybe a compilation, what would they be? Regarding vinyl: to me it's a part of what serious music fans who are passionate about music do. And I'm a serious music fan who is passionate about music, and that's why the whole thing kind of makes me a bit sad. Maybe once my son is grown and moved out and I have more lifestyle flexibility I can revisit things and supplement my digital system with analog equipment again. Though, here's something you can't do with vinyl. I came home from work yesterday to pick up my son to bring him to the movie theatre. Beeped in the driveway. Nothing. Beeped again. Still nothing. Sooo, took out the iPad, connected to my network inside, fired up the music management software and cranked - and I do mean CRANKED - 'Mustapha' inside the house. Within seconds he was leaning out the door with his hand on his chest jumped out of his skin, trying to be really mad, but being far more successful at laughing at me. Handy! |
JoxerTheDeityPirate 16.08.2011 12:18 |
^LOL! i would recommend the remastered Lament and a n other if it was down to just a choice of 2,just for the excellent 12" versions on the bonus disc of Lament.probably pick Rage in Eden as the other one but maybe Vienna..ooh decisions! :-p if you want a compilation cd,If I Was-the very best of Midge Ure/Ultravox is probably the best buy..just for Yellow Pearl and Fade to Grey on it |
GratefulFan 17.08.2011 08:24 |
Thanks Pirate! I'll let you know what I end up picking up when I next order stuff. 'If I Was' was another song I really, really liked back in the day so I like your compilation suggestion quite a bit already. |
Crazy LittleThing 17.08.2011 14:23 |
MadTheSwine73 wrote: Yes, I collect vinyl. In fact, it was all a happy accident that I collect it. Right down the street from my school is a record store, and so once or twice a week I go there, and usually just browse, and put everything I want on hold, until someone buys it for me :P But I collect Queen, Beatles, solo from both of those, Led Zeppelin Bob Dylan, Traveling Wilburys, Yoko Ono, Rolling Stones, and a bit of Ravi Shankar and Woddy Guthrie. It's an expensive hobby, no doubt about it, but it's worth it. I've got 50+ Beatles albums, not including doubles, and just that cost me at least 800$. I've only got about 175 LPs, but it's only been a year and a half I've been collecting. crazy little thing wrote: Ha! I never thought I'd see someone posting that they have Ravi Shankar in their vinyl collection on QZ. I have the LP of his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. I've been collecting albums since I was about ten years old. I have hundreds of albums. While I also have hundreds of CDs, the ritualistic experience of picking up an LP album, slipping the vinyl disc out of the paper sleeve, placing it on the turntable, carefully placing the needle on it, adjusting the volume/sound controls, and sitting back and listening to a record while perusing the album art and liner notes is an unmatchable experience. They're going to have to pry my vinyl LPs out of my cold, dead hands. Going to Joe's Record World (used record store in Maryland) is like a religious experience to me : ) I went to see the band Chicago last night. It was a great show that conjured up memories of going to gigs with friends at the San Diego Sports Arena (where all the greats played), hours spent flipping through the bins of records at the shrine, Tower Records, across the street, and stopping en masse for a taco and a Coke at Taco Bell after a gig before walking home. Good times. Really, really good times. |
The Fairy King 19.08.2011 04:09 |
Yes i collect vinyl, why? |