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I must say I am quite amazed on how popular vinyl is these days

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The market is big enough to support some very expensive and or esoteric stuff.

Super expensive console stereos.

https://wrensilva.com/

Crazy record player that is just a wheel

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/865809794/wheel-by-miniot

Crazy record player that rolls on top of the record.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pinkdonut/rokblok-a-new-spin-on-vinyl

The craziest thing - when you die, your ashes can be pressed into a vinyl record with music of your choice.

http://www.andvinyly.com/
 
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Hah....

That's what I call getting played....your ashes getting pressed into a bunch of melted pellets and the wife still playing you when she wants. Just imagine being stuck in a record if the rapture is actually true. The record would be flying to heaven.....zip !
 
I fully shifted from records to CDs in the 1992. I boxed up my records and turntable but never got rid of them. I resurrected them in 2011 and have been addicted to the sound and the entire vinyl process ever since.
 
bobins08 said:
I fully shifted from records to CDs in the 1992. I boxed up my records and turntable but never got rid of them. I resurrected them in 2011 and have been addicted to the sound and the entire vinyl process ever since.
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I did the same early 90s but took all my albums to a local record store to sell. The owner only wanted a few and offered me $20. I told him I would only sell them all for $100 about 200 albums. He passed, so I took them home and put them in a closet. Started playing them again about 10 years ago. Glad they did not sell.

I'm sure our story is fairly typical.
 
kaplang said:
I did the same early 90s but took all my albums to a local record store to sell. The owner only wanted a few and offered me $20. I told him I would only sell them all for $100 about 200 albums. He passed, so I took them home and put them in a closet. Started playing them again about 10 years ago. Glad they did not sell.

I'm sure our story is fairly typical.
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Fairly typical, alright. :)

But perhaps not as typical as "got rid of 'em; wish I hadn't"... :(
 
Close call sqisavior.

I'd like to hear one of those consoles. Ascetically, they do look pretty nice.
 
If I could buy it on vinyl in the 90's, I would. But there were many 70's reissues that were only available on CD, for a long time.
Local record shops went from 6 or 7 down to 1 or 2 and then for a while, 0 at the beginning of the 2000's.
Dark days.
But the inter-web kept my spirits up and I found many records I never dreamed I would see, for sale.
So now it's going from "you still listen to records?" to "where do you get your records?"
Just keep smiling.
 
It seems everyone collects records now.

I see a lot of people ranging from their teens to their thirties going through records. While it's nice to see a new generation interested in the medium, it is making it harder to find anything good.
 
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