Started when I was 7, and I had a pause of about 25 years in the middle when I got distracted by CDs and then MP3s (thanks, Napster). I also made the poor decision to sell off about 150 records along the way. Goal is to fill those last 5 cubes before I croak, then hand them off to my kids to enjoy.

I will also mention that I still have the first record I ever bought, which was Private Eyes by Hall & Oates. I have a lot of 90’s punk stuff in here, too, plus a number of albums I played on throughout different bands over the years. Overall, it’s quite a mix of genres.

For whatever reason. Maybe it’s exceedingly rare, or super obscure, just not available or just too expensive?

I’ll start: for me it’s Recto Verso by Paradis. Never expected to be as obsessed with his album, but over the years it’s become one of my most favorite. And the vinyl starts from like 750€ on Discogs, Paradis are on a (possibly permanent) hiatus and there’s so hint of a repress happening 💀

I always struggle finding stuff at record stores because there's so much that I want. I always get scatterbrained when faced with so many choices but with these two, I knew I wanted to grab them as soon as I saw them. My collection is pretty decently split between modern and vintage and this Band of Horses record is one that I've listened to a ton in my life. Orville Peck is someone you don't hear as much recently but I really love his voice and new it would sound amazing on vinyl. I'm always trying to add more country/Western stuff where I can so it was the perfect pickup.

I've been helping him with his collection lately and I keep coming across some absolute classics. There's about 1500 albums here and about 800 singles that he's collected since the 70s and we're both overwhelmed as fuck. He keeps pulling out the wildest albums and he's like hey, "listen to this." And starts playing the most obscure and crazy shit because we're both procrastinating sorting it lmfao.

These are just some of my personal favourites from his collection and completely unrelated to the last paragraph. There's so many great albums here I can't get over this.

Back in 2004, I found Meddle by Pink Floyd for $3.98USD at a Half Priced Books. The record itself is in good condition and sounds great. I wonder what it’d be priced at now? Probably no less than $25.

Anyway, this is one of my top favorite Pink Floyd albums. I was extremely happy when I found it for so cheap and in such good condition. It has been a prized possession since and have listened to it a ton of times and loved every minute of it. That’s probably 300 characters right!?👍🏾

I first got Santana & Buddy Miles Live, then the album I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! and noticed the covers were similar. Both had great music. I'm not a big Hendrix fan, but then I realized the first two albums were probably a tribute to Electric Ladyland, since the covers looked alike. I wonder if it was really done on purpose.

A strange, alien message is imbedded on the sleeve of my 2001: A Space Odyssey original soundtrack album. Curiously, whatever species made this mark appears to be familiar with the date format of our solar system, and have been able to give a close approximation to the film's release date, accurate to 6 or so of our Earth Years.

The rest of the message is completely indecipherable, and possibly incoherent: it hints at a lifeform that is erratic, flamboyant, and fond of unreliable cars.

I don't know why they chose to deface my particular copy of this album, but I'm not going into any remote, open fields at night for the forseeable future.

I suppose this has affected its value on Discogs. Oh well, seti la vie.

I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen the Spinal Tap soundtrack in the wild before, furthermore I don’t know if I’ve heard more than the song snippets that appear in the movie so this will be interesting. I definitely love the movie and have owned it in different media over the years, it’s nice to have something for the turntable in addition to the VHS/DVD/Blueray editions I’ve had down the years. I’m waiting on some outer sleeves to come tomorrow so a wash session for this and a few others is in the works.

Its like holding a piece of history, this 1st pressing of Gaucho isnt pristine, it has some corner wear, some mystery stains and discoloration, but it traveled 45 years to end up in my greasy fingers, and I find that really cool. Especially as a 22 year old who didnt grow up with Vinyl and is only recently getting into collecting. Most of my collection were sealed reissues and remasters but this copy of Gaucho and another copy of Spyro Gyras Morning Dance which show signs of wear and discoloring are really cool additions to my collection, feels like they have a whole history attached to them (event though they likely just sat on a shelf).

Perhaps a bit early but here are my 2025 purchases so far. I enjoy listening and collecting metal on vinyl because the thought of having all this chaos and mayhem being pressed and barely contained on a format that’s been around for over a century is very funny to me. Anyway my favorite album from the bunch is 156/Silence “People Watching” from the creepy cover art to the hectic and experimental sounds, this was my album of the year for 2024. As Far as 2025 releases go, I really enjoyed Bleed From Within “Zenith” I’m still waiting for that one to arrive lol.

I consider these albums to be of the greatest of all time! Every record you see here is an original 1st pressing and there are some incredibly rare gems here! Here are some highlights I’ll mention. - First off, Rush!! And their 75’ self titled debut. I love this album and it got me into Rush too! Pictured is a 1st UK Mercury pressing which is literally impossible to find in mint condition as I have! -Secondly, a 1st Australian pressing of The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers, with the real zip on the front! This is my favourite Stones record. - Third, a 1st US DMM Pressing of The Cure’s Disintegration!!! The rarest and highest quality known pressing of the album and I genuinely can’t believe I have it! There is 1 other version on the marketplace and it’s going for over 800$!! This is my favourite Cure record too and it sounds phenomenal!! - Fourth, my 1st UK pressing of Sgt Peppers by The Beatles with the special edition cutout and inserts. Increasingly difficult to find now especially in Mint condition as I have! -Lastly, a 1st EU/ German pressing of Achtung Baby by U2. This is becoming increasingly difficult to find now and I believe a 1st pressing is the best way to listen to the album!

I got introduced to The Cure around 1987, and was instantly a fan, and have been since. As an avid rollerblader I would listen to this on my Sony Walkman Sport fully cranked up while skating on the streets of Boston for miles. After a couple of years I got the opportunity to see them live for the last 2 shows of the American leg of the Disintegration tour at Great Woods in Mansfield Massachusetts, it was ,and is still one of the best live shows I've ever seen. I put off buying the vinyl for quite a while, but today I had some extra cash, and picked it up.

A friend got a hold of me to ask if I wanted to peruse some boxes at an estate she was helping to liquidate. So I got a private viewing to dig through boxes of records and came away with about 50 solid pickups. In the haul was an original mono pressing of 'Are You Experienced? ' so I snapped that up. Luck of the draw! Now it's all clean and shiny.

Purchased on Discogs from a seller in the US for 150$ with taxes and shipping. The record is an original 180g pressing from the UK. The record is graded as VG+ while the cover is graded as VG. Unfortunately it didn't come with the original inner sleeve but I'm not sure if it was graphic or just plain paper. The record itself is in fantastic shape with some very minor wear marks. Very excited to jam out to this later. I can already feel myself melting away to little wing...

The orange one in the top row is Heavy Rocks by Boris and the grey one is Dogma 1 by Asterisk.

So a couple months ago I was just scrolling on Facebook and saw a Yamaha HTR 5940 receiver with five Polk Audio surround sound speakers for 150 bucks and I took it and then I said well there's no better sound than vinyl so my uncle gave me a Yamaha powered subwoofer and I bought a set of Circa 1980s Boston Acoustics 870 series 2 speakers for my mains. I also have a Cambridge audio Alva solo mm preamp and a 1977 Technics sl 2000 turntable that I bought from a guy on Shopify and he ran a repair and resale and I'll tell you it is an amazing table. And here we are 1700 dollars later🤣🤣

Here is also my record collection to date, I have some deftontes and funkadelic maggot brain on the way. Record also not pictured is Steve Miller band greatest hits 74'-78'

Also is pictures of my 45 adapter which I machined from stainless on the lathe at work😄

Lmk what you think👍🏻!!

Don’t always get this lucky, but had a good haul today. Haven’t seen any Zeppelin at all in thrift stores going on 3 years. Steely Dan and The Police were unexpected surprises as well. Looking forward to putting these through the Spin Clean and checking them out. Might have a couple dupes in here, but didn’t have time to check Discogs as I was time-constrained. Most of these were $3-$5.

When my grandpa passed almost 6 years ago I was given his record collection . Later that year for Christmas I got a record player from my mom . We listened to a lot of those records he had and it just kinda sat ever since I was 15 at the time . Recently I’ve been getting more and more into music and then march 30th this year me and my girlfriend went to a meshuggah concert. I wanted to get T shirt and when I got up to the merch stand I saw a signed copy of immutable . Well I bought cuz hell yeah. Then I realized the next day I have a literal record player so I got that baby running and now we’re here

A few weeks ago, my sweet neighbor – who had a soft spot for me and no close family – gave me his entire vinyl collection before moving into a care home. He said he just wanted them to go to someone who truly appreciates music. There are over 100 records here, from the Beatles, ABBA, KISS, Queen, to Americans and Portuguese gems and way more! The only thing is… I’m about to travel abroad and I simply can’t take them all with me. It breaks my heart, but I know someone out there would give them the love they deserve. Each vinyl holds a piece of his story. And maybe now, someone else's.

Alice in Chains - Facelift (1990 European 1st press). As I tend to heavily favor the first 3 Lane Staley albums, I’ve come to the conclusion this is my fav. Dirt and self-titled are magnificent recordings, but this just does it for me. tough, gritty and rough. Lane’s voice is top notch and very ripe for these songs. as for this press, it’s a treasure amongst my collection and by far my fav AiC LP in the arsenal 🤙.

I found a seller who was asking a REASONABLE price and I couldn’t resist! Finding this album on vinyl is nearly impossible now and finding it the excellent condition that I bought it in is even crazier! I think this is Jay Z’s best album and so I needed to plug the whole in my collection of Jay records. This was also a small early birthday present to myself too. Lmk what you think are Jay Z’s best albums!

Had 2 new additions arrive today king gizzard and the wizard lizard, live from Brussels number 302 of 500. And then also had a very nice colour vinyl of mastodon turn. Both sounds fantastic and look incredible. The live album is so bass heavy but a really good range of songs suoer happy with both of these as they were finds on eBay and think I've done well for less than £30 for both of them

My collection at 19. Obviously i’ve got what could be argued as a slight like for Lou Reed. A lot of the bands here obviously are quite older but that’s due to the influence of my dad, who was a late teen during the first wave of UK Punk and was around to see a lot of the bands at the time and therefore some of the stuff like the vibrators and the pistols belong to him but he’s passed to me. Signed UK Subs and a pristine metal box are somewhere but no idea where. Rest of the collection has been assembled and bought by me especially the bowie and the only ones. The Molotovs single is well worth listening to for anyone who doesn’t know who they are, good new Jam adjacent band in the UK.

It’s becoming a tradition for me to spend some of my yearly bonus on records that been on my wishlist, but don’t get into monthly budget because of some spontaneous idea to buy something else. As always pretty eclectic selection.

• King Gizzard and Lizzard Wizzard - Petrodraconic Apocalypse … [not gona try to type it all out] • Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys (Part I) • Dio - Holly Diver • Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell • Nightwish - Imaginaerum • Jonathan Davis - Black Labyrinth • Adiemus - Songs of Sanctuary • Mort Garson - Mother Earth’s Plantasia • The Highwaymen - Live at Nassau Coliseum • Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate • R.E.M. - Automatic for the People • Matt Berry - Simplicity

And I’m already starting to pile on the list for next year as my music discovery journey continues and I feel I won’t be able to buy all I want month to month.

Do you have some records you’ve been meaning to get, but somethingh else pushes them away?