unknown pleasures Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 3 minutes ago, Fungi said: the portfolio gains. You must be too young to remember The Great Frankie Goes to Hollywood Crash of '87 (aka 'Red Vinyl Monday'). Dusted_By_Space, Metal Mike, mertzrock and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throughbeingcruel Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Damn. Thread did not disappoint. fuckinandsuckinandtouchin and Dusted_By_Space 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridley Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 because in 1995 if I wanted to listen to all the Gob songs, I needed to buy some 7"s. Kind of just grew from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freedumb Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Yeezy taught me. Tommy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek™ Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 I really hope that someone, somewhere, has cherry-picked their favorite contributions to these "research" threads (or survey websites) to share in a PowerPoint presentation. Ideally among peers. "Going off the sample pool taken from 'Vinyl Collective', you can see right here that the current consumer of vinyl over the age of 20 was introduced to the format through cat gifs. There's also an indication that vinyl connoisseurs residing on the East coast share a correlating belief in worshipping the devil, and a select percentile found themselves entering the vinyl world solely to fashion bowls." SE7EN, unknown pleasures, Shelby and 9 others 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Fenriz approves Derek's post...esp. the East Coast Devil worship part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throwgncpr Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 (edited) I grew up with vinylz. My mom was also a devil worshiping cat (east siiiiiiide). Does that fit the profile? Edited February 3, 2017 by throwgncpr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thacriddler Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Wouldn't punk rock be the right answer Satan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryantark Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 After riding the baseball cards and Beanie Babies craze, I was in need of a new investment opportunity which would result in equally poor results. poweredbytrust, Sidney Crosley, zacooper and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throughbeingcruel Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 3 hours ago, thacriddler said: Wouldn't punk rock be the right answer This one gets it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stress On The Sky Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Another majestic noob thread. I personally got into vinyl so I could have another obsession and topic of conversation that exasperates the people who try to talk to me. throughbeingcruel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelansegur Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 I got into vinyl because we didn't have CDs, MP3s, Spotify, Digital Audio Tape. We had records .. LPs, Singles .. nothing else .. it was 1965 .. you can call me Phélan Flintstone vinyl addict 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristopher Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 it all started when i was 7 years old. My sister and i both had 45's of we built this city by Starship. I was rocking out so hard that I accidentally stepped on hers, so i had to give her mine. Fast forward to today my collection consists of a few Corey Hart albums and roughly 600 copies of we built this city by starship. Tommy, mertzrock, whoa and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicLima Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 I love music and wanted shiny things all the time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlegg Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Started buying records at punk shows as a teen and used my dads crappy turntable to play them. He had a lot of other neat punk albums so I listened to them as well. Went into the military and kept buying a couple records while being a total noob about it (throwing away inner sleeves because it was aggravating having to put them back in.) Fast forward to being out of the navy and I have some disposable income while going to college so i start getting into equipment and buying more records. Got into the "emo revival" scene and bout a ton of that type of stuff. Fast forward to today and I have about 900 records and a system I've put about $5000 into. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allenh Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 I got into vinyl records at the tender age of 9 in 1977 in the forlorn but laudable hope I could in later life bore the living shit out of people at parties about the subject once vinyl records were no longer fashionable, all went fine with this cunning plan all through the 1990's where I could hold an air of unfounded superiority at social gatherings ad infinitum, in fact as boring the shit out of people went I was the man right up until the early 2000's and then some cock womble decided to make vinyl records cool again with the facial topiary single speed bicycle riding types and there I was cast out into the fashionable herd once again. I've been in stunned silence on the subject ever since around 2006 and I've never really recovered, do you think there is some support group I could talk to about this? vinyl addict, Billich0986, NewOldStock and 8 others 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mertzrock Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 9 hours ago, allenh said: I got into vinyl records at the tender age of 9 in 1977 in the forlorn but laudable hope I could in later life bore the living shit out of people at parties about the subject once vinyl records were no longer fashionable, all went fine with this cunning plan all through the 1990's where I could hold an air of unfounded superiority at social gatherings ad infinitum, in fact as boring the shit out of people went I was the man right up until the early 2000's and then some cock womble decided to make vinyl records cool again with the facial topiary single speed bicycle riding types and there I was cast out into the fashionable herd once again. I've been in stunned silence on the subject ever since around 2006 and I've never really recovered, do you think there is some support group I could talk to about this? Mr. allenh never disappoints... Tommy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darnoc Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 On 2/2/2017 at 11:48 AM, ShayShay said: I now have 4 records and am looking to expand the collection and was curious about how others gained interest in the subject. I was curious what 4 records you have and why you care about our interest. Would your likelihood to expand your collection be impacted by how far our fixation has developed? As other posts here have demonstrated, collectors here care little about what others think - if you care, it may be best to find a different hobby before you get hurt, and be glad you're only 4 records in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloudsbelow Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 a dirty (one dude actually did smell like piss) punk band i recorded put out a 7".. thought i should probably own it. That lead to me believing that I should own ALL THE vinyl, i've been able to subdue that urge, lately. Fungi and allenh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unknown pleasures Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 2 hours ago, Cloudsbelow said: a dirty (one dude actually did smell like piss) punk band i recorded put out a 7".. thought i should probably own it. That lead to me believing that I should own ALL THE vinyl, i've been able to subdue that urge, lately. You had me at piss. andynz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 I wanted to make moving more of a pain in the ass. LIGMA_BALLZ and Tommy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vector53 Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 (edited) I wanted the quintessential materialistic item that could be found...not comic books, baseball cards, posters, nor collector toys...no it was the disc of wax that played music from its grooves that I fell in love with. Edited February 5, 2017 by Vector53 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 I wanted to have bigger CD's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allenh Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 3 hours ago, FiggyPuddling said: I wanted to have bigger CD's. Laserdiscs my good man Laserdiscs Metal Mike, Rip and LIGMA_BALLZ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeKaye Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 I was in one of those Cash Converter places the other day. They had two crates of Laserdiscs. It was amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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