Do you collect music on vinyl, and have a record player?

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Yes, and play them often.
Yes, but rarely play them.
Collect vinyl, but don’t play them.
No.
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@dgar I collect them at a friend's home 😜
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@PaNel82cz @dgar I have a player and a few vinyls. I do not collect and I play them rarely, but when I do, its nice. 😆
@dgar I used to, but I disposed of my record collection some time ago after ripping those I could not get on CD. I used to put stickers on my record covers with my surname; it's amazing how many people have asked me, upon learning my surname, if I sold a copy of XYZ album... because if so, they now have it :-) 🙂
@dgar no, but I have an extensive collection of LPs from a time before digital music; I rarely play them.
@patrickhadfield nice 🤘classic album collection.

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I certainly don't have an Extensive collection... but I have a few.

An ex of mine had a friend who did have his entire Bedroom wall as LP shelving storage must have been hundreds - now that was extensive - I wonder if he still has them

@dgar used to collect and played them even less and now they have been digitised they don't get played at all.

@dgar Answered "Yes, but rarely play them" as the best answer.

I don't collect vinyl. I have the records I bought in the late 70s into the 1990s. I also have a turntable that I can attached to my stereo receiver. Haven't actually done that in years. 😜

Got a lot of CDs, too. I did replace the cassette tapes with CDs and disposed of the tapes.

I'm just a tad too young for 8-Track, but old enough to remember them!

@dgar whenever I moved the moving contractors broke the record player (which was unused after repairing it). Finally I gave up on record players.
@dgar I *have* vinyl records, and a record player, but haven't added to the collection in a long long time.
@dgar I don't collect.
But I still have some records from the olden days and a player, also from olden days.
@dgar i wanna collect vinyl, and i wanna play them often !!

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i’ve got about 20 that i haven’t been able to find on either a cd or streaming service… and a cd not on streaming service.

i have added some rather crappy digital copies of some tracks to my itunes library

@dgar “collect” is a strong word. I have some vinyl.
@martinhowitt that’s fair. 🤘

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And a collectible, numbered record... Fine, you got me, I collect.

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@dgar I collect music on all manner of physical media.
@dgar I/we even have Shellack discs (inherited), mainly from the 40s-50s, but play them less often, and not without changing the needle .
@dgar Not only a record player and records, but an old steel needle phonograph with a bunch of 10" albums from the early 1900's
@dgar I think the literal only thing i miss about vinyl is the cover art. I wish we could have that back, but i'd prefer to have a usb stick inside with a max quality recording.
@dgar nope , CD's usually from secondhand stores
@dgar Not only a vinyl record player but two cassette decks and two reel to reel tape decks. I am regressing to my youth rapidly..... Both physically and mentally lol
@dgar I have a personal rule to buy a physical release of a band the moment I start listening to them repeatedly on Spotify. I am also not a playlist person so I only listen to full albums all day long. But having a family with kids means I don't really get many days where I can use my audio setup to blast things at full volume :)
@dgar I don't know if I could say I "collect" anymore, but I have a collection and occasionally buy an album on vinyl at a gig... mosy recent purchase at an actual record shop was a year or two ago, "Wall of eyes" by The Smile, last purchase at a gig, Elana Stone, Married to the Sound
The last record on the platter here was ABBA, Arrival (requested by the kiddos)

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You missed:

*No, I don't collect them as such. I am old & that's how music came.
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@thefathippy the omission of this option was a clear oversight.
@dgar @thefathippy same here!
I still pick up the odd record in charity shops now and then. New releases I tend to buy the CD now and rip it immediately into my library.
@dgar "collect" as in "i sometimes purchase music that way", not as in "I'm a collector". it's mostly opportunism at estate sales and used bookstores

@dgar I didn't start to buy records until my 20s from 1992 on. So I had very few vinyls. Lots of CDs and mp3 purchases.

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@dgar I collect but rarely play them. Just waiting for the kids to grow up and start liking #blackmetal so we can all enjoy. 😂

@dgar I own both vinyl and a presumed-functioning turntable (OK, it almost certainly needs a new drive belt).

Both are relics of the time when vinyl was the only choice; haven't used it seriously since the early 90s.

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No, but I used to. Unfortunately I lost it during am international move.

I do have plans to create a new collection and acquire a new player.

@dgar ticked no but woulda ticked 'No not for decades but still have working (I hope) record deck and hundreds of albums which also haven't been played for decades' 😊
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There's a basically unrepairable fault in my tonearm, which makes one channel intermittent, so I haven't been playing vinyl until I can find a reasonably priced quality replacement, which is an oxymoron when it comes to this stuff.