Oh I also went to Iran last summer and brought back some vinyls from there too, though they only had smaller ones. I have no idea what the proper terminologies would be, but I need to buy an adapter to properly play the smaller ones on the turn table, for the moment I use a cut out piece of cardboard.
Last year I found two technics turn tables on the corner and I took it, I cleaned em and bought a new needle and they worked. A few months after I saw a neighbor throw out a box of vinyls so I immediately took it and went home and started trying to scratch. (I had no idea what I was doing lol)
"Collecting" is a bit silly in my opinion. I'm not sure why many people will purchase a boat load of cheap shitty albums just for the sake of owning a lot of albums. They're cheap for a reason and a waste of space with virtually zero value. Unless scratching is your thing.
I only buy records that I know I will enjoy from start to finish. There are just certain albums that must be experienced on vinyl. A great example is Dark Side of The Moon. That and many other Pink Floyd albums are rock masterpieces; that's the stuff I make sure I have on vinyl.
"Collecting" is a bit silly in my opinion. I'm not sure why many people will purchase a boat load of cheap shitty albums just for the sake of owning a lot of albums. They're cheap for a reason and a waste of space with virtually zero value. Unless scratching is your thing.
I only buy records that I know I will enjoy from start to finish. There are just certain albums that must be experienced on vinyl. A great example is Dark Side of The Moon. That and many other Pink Floyd albums are rock masterpieces; that's the stuff I make sure I have on vinyl.
I haven't bought any since I moved away from ATL (some great stores in L5P when I lived there). I have about 150 all boxed up at my parents house, probably snag em when I move back east. They're mostly indie rock and death metal, but I have a lot of great stuff mixed in too, classic rock (obviously), hip-hop, punk, classical, assorted electronic music, even found an old instructional LP for how to "DO THE HUSTLE!" for $1.
I haven't seen any record stores around Fort Collins, which is surprising considering the hipster college crowd here, I'm sure there are some in Denver but I realllllllly miss the store in Nashville, TN. I used to trek up there for records every other week when I still lived in the region. Unless it's a seller I know to be a reliable packer, I don't trust records to survive the shipping process. That's just me though, I'm naturally paranoid.
I've heard horror stories of scumbags shipping vinyl in used pizza boxes.