Social For those who grew up with vinyl records, what was the first vinyl record you bought?

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I had an Art project in the 9th grade to bring in record for discussion. I didn't know music but I wanted something psychedelic. I stopped by the record store and bought a 45 rpm record of Jefferson Airplane Crown of Creation and Lather.
The first album I bought was Iron Butterfly-Heavy


 
I bought records before they were vinyl, they were 78 rpm, made of china and they broke if you dropped them.

Here's the first one I bought...

 
long time ago...

i am 99% sure it was the great rock 'n' roll swindle double album:

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alasdair
 
Shinji Ikari said:
Mine was Fear of a Blank Planet by Porcupine Tree but I'm a dirtbag millennial and only started collecting records 5-6 years ago.

Great album though.
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Trust me, if "Digital Media" had been available back then I would have preferred it. I ended up breaking many records, which is why I why I mentioned it's fragility.
Back then collecting these were like collecting vinyl records.

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And they this was the record players for them...

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Cheshire_Kat said:
Trust me, if "Digital Media" had been available back then I would have preferred it. I ended up breaking many records, which is why I why I mentioned it's fragility.
Back then collecting these were like collecting vinyl records.

Edison-gold-moulded-wax-recording-1.jpeg
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Mind you vinyl seems to have stood the rest of time better than CDs have. I've inherited a lot of my parents records from the 80s which all still play perfectly. A few from the 60s as well actually.

I have no idea what I'm looking at in that image :laughing:
 
I didn't grow up with them. I mean they were around but we listened to cassettes and cds. The first one i actually bought for myself was the operation ivy energy lp from a used bookstore but i was probably 18 or 19 by then.
 
Shinji Ikari said:
Mind you vinyl seems to have stood the rest of time better than CDs have. I've inherited a lot of my parents records from the 80s which all still play perfectly. A few from the 60s as well actually.

I have no idea what I'm looking at in that image :laughing:
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The top picture is an old cylinder record, the second is the record player...


 
I had record albums, 8 tracks, cassettes, and cd’s, a friend of mine had a reel to reel tape player. Nowadays my iPhone supplies the music I listen to. No more tape decks or cd player for me.
 
M1sterEd said:
What do you think about music from the 1970s?
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Nothing particular I guess? There are groups I like who were active in the 70s, Tangerine Dream, Rush, Gong, to name a few off the top of my head, but I don't know if I have a favourite decade. From the 60s through to the present day each decade has produced some sensational progressive rock. Can't go wrong really.
 
Madness- Absolutely, must been for my 7-th birthday.



And still got it, in good condition. Gifted record s count at that age.
I really wanted it, my older nephew s got me hooked on em.
 
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Cheshire_Kat said:
Trust me, if "Digital Media" had been available back then I would have preferred it. I ended up breaking many records, which is why I why I mentioned it's fragility.
Back then collecting these were like collecting vinyl records.

Edison-gold-moulded-wax-recording-1.jpeg


And they this was the record players for them...

EdisonPhonograph.jpg
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That are the actual old skool record s they weighed more.
And where breakable. Is there a chance they where made from a other material ?

Failed to find info beside the cylinder that preceded the LP.
But My record s don t break, and withstand me, and time.
100 x times better as CD s. That even goes for my cassette tapes.

Even the oldest lowest grades still work. CD s already been binned.
As sound carrier medium they stitched us on a ear. [Dutch]
 
Cheshire_Kat said:
Trust me, if "Digital Media" had been available back then I would have preferred it. I ended up breaking many records, which is why I why I mentioned it's fragility.
Back then collecting these were like collecting vinyl records.

Edison-gold-moulded-wax-recording-1.jpeg


And they this was the record players for them...

EdisonPhonograph.jpg
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Those where not made of Vinyl right, but Wax/ Bakelite or so ?
Where they called records too ? Cool cylinder record s, do see storage difficulty s.

My record s don t break either they withstand time, way better then tapes.
And CD/ DVD :ROFLMAO:, no match, that was a trick we all fell for. A disposable product.
sold for big buck s, waste. Btw the price of Vinyl has gone higher then CD s 🙏

With a life-duration max 10 year s, my style of use. Vinyl last forever ?
And so do my cassette s till now. Despite believes.
Even the lowest grade Ferro. One thing with Vinyl you can t do !
Store them Horizontal, never do that its sacrilegious, they ll bend.

Vertical, at normal temp. Treat your Vinyl like this,
and its nice for your grand, grand, grand kid s.
And so on.
 
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emkee_reinvented said:
Those where not made of Vinyl right, but Wax/ Bakelite or so ?
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Some were made of China (fired ceramic clay) and other Bakelite. Some (really early ones) were quite thick and had no starting and ending grooves. Family would give me their old records because I was so in love with music. Here's a copy of one I actually owned and searched for on YouTube, the actual identical label. It took me some time to locate o copy.

 
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