VinylGyroid

Try and go an listen to this stuff if you can and don't focus on a figure you have to spend, have a top budget but if you find what you liek for half of it so be it, you have more to spend on records.
 
Also don't discount a proper system with an amplifier and passive speakers, there's a lot of good stuff around and manufactures are now starting to put the phono stages back in their amplifiers, also if you have a proper amplifier you can run other sources into it which you can't do with powered speakers without plugging and unplugging leads or having some sort of switching unit that an amplifier already contains, that and having to adjust the volume on the front of the speaker all the time would annoy me.
 
Have a look at makers like Music Hall or Cambridge Audio in your budget but also used equipment from these makers, also Music Hall make turntables that are effectively Projects anyway so you might get a package deal from them or a stockist.
 
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Part used and part new or all used you can get a very nice sounding system for $1000, shop well and you could get a pretty decent one new for that.

I'm so sick of the media giving everyone that kills someone/masses of people, who want to terrorize and put fear into others, their 15+ minutes of fame.  They perpetuate these situations so, so much, and give these people (copy cat killer / terrorist organizations) the fuel to keep doing it.  How and why do these terrorist organisations have Twitter accounts and social media accounts?  It's fucking mind blowing.  We have all this technology, yet we let them squeak through and put out their little videos and tweets, FB messages, whatever, and then the media runs with the story and makes it a big deal.  That's exactly what they want, to be seen, and we give it to them.  It's sad, really.  It's like letting a little kid in class get up, start having a temper tantrum, and then award said child for doing so.  Also, religion is the worst.  None of this is a revelation, but nobody seems to want to put an end to it, so it continues.

In theory, you can't. The only thing you can do is try and spread kindness to the strangers around you. Hate and kindness travel well. It's our small acts of kindness that empower us. Maybe I'm a fucking unrealistic doofus with this philosophy, but I'm not going to rely on some promise of a heaven to guide how I treat other humans. Sometimes we don't realize how everything we do in our everyday lives has an effect on the world.

Just one thought, instead of sitting around saying "humanity is fucked" or "the world is fucked", etc., which I see quite a bit already in this thread, let's all think what can we do to stop this and make this world a better place.  There is a way, it will take take and a lot of action and time, but to say "it's fucked" means you're totally giving up, which is letting the fucking scum that does shit like this win.  That's my 2 cents on this, thoughts go out to Paris and the rest of the world, stay safe, and let's try to find a way to better this little planet of ours one day at a time.  

Always hard to really for sure say what my top 10 is but I feel like it looks something like this.
 
Underoath - Define The Great Line
Moving Mountains - Foreword (or Waves)
August Burns Red - Found In Far Away Places
Balance And Composure - Separation
Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams (or Strange Trails)
The Acacia Strain - Wormwood
Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow
The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation
He Is Legend - Suck Out The Poison
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
 
I know some of these aren't old enough but shrug, they just really do it for me and I can't ignore them. Fight me haha.

Thank you
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im an otaku myself.
aint got no time for weebs.

The Mars Volta - De-loused In The Comatorium (Black, 180g)
The Mars Volta - Mr. Muggs Pic Disc
Eminem - The Vinyl LPs Box Set
Thursday - No Devolućion [2xLP]
Say Anything - ...Is A Real Boy [2xLP]

Spent $9 on each

This but have you also considered buying a used one? There are a lot of DJ style tables like this so you could pick up a better quality table without the on board phono stage or USB that are the worst things about this table for the same or less money.
 
If the look of the thing isn't that important then there would be quite a choice at that price point for used proper HiFi tables.
 
Used can be very daunting for some people and you would need to buy it from somewhere you could take/send it back to if there were any problems unless it was very very cheap and worth the risk but that is the same with a new table.
 
On the AT120 itself my dad has one and I rebuilt it for him (removed the rubbish electronics, re wired the arm, rebuilt the power supply and motor drive, set the tone arm bearings up correctly and polished the main bearing, new isolation feet, electrical and sound isolation inside) and it made it into a very nice sounding table, IT would have cost a fortune to do if I didn't already have a lot of the stuff and I could have bought him a very nice table for what the whole thing cost but it was fun to do

The table itself is fine and you can get decent-good sound. However, if you think you're going to want a better table in the next couple of years, you're basically throwing money away by buying this now instead of buying a better table used or waiting to save another $100 or so.

I purchased an AT-LP120 as my second table and over the past couple years of owning it I wish I had went with a table with a separate preamp.  I plan on ripping out the builtin preamp as soon as I have some free time.  The cartridge it comes with can be upgraded pretty easily.  You may find having the preamp built in a convenience at first, but I can't say I'd do it again.  It's definitely sturdy, easy to set up, and can just plug it into whatever stereo system you have around.  That's my two cents, but honestly this table has been well reviewed so there's not a whole lot of reason to ask about this here.

MURICA!

Wow, angry much?  I bought it b/c it has a few albums I don't have of his, but I don't HAVE to have them.  No need to get all butt hurt and call people dipshits, it's just the internet, and last time I checked it's also a free market, so if I want to sell it down the road, I can fucking do that and you can't do shit about it.  Crybaby.

If you could care less about receiving it, then why order it you dipshit. ohhh brooo I just wanted to buy it to make money on it...

... loser.

Some things are worth owning for $25 but not for $175

Eh. Mistakes happen. No need to be a hoosierbrat about it brah.

Holy shit

Guess it's hilarious that I paid for something and expect to receive it. The Internet in 2015.

Missed this because I was in the shower, getting ready to go to work tonight.

The moral of the story here: Quit your job.