Your First Vinyl Record - LP/Single

[littleme61_6]

What was the first LP/Single you bought?.  

My first single was Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel 

My first LP was a version of The Top of The Pops. 

[**tigerlilly**]

My first single was Ride a White Swan and I boughts so many LP's I just dont remember which was my first.

The industry looks as though it has come full circle though doesn't it as vinyls are becoming popular again. Whis I hadnt dumped all mine now.

[littleme61_6]

So right there Misspeaches. I heard from a few friends their youngsters are getting into buying Vinyls now. 

I have a bottom half of a wall unit upstairs, it is full of LP's. Such a collection I have over many years. I might even get back to playing them again.  And singing along to them.. *Best everyone covers their ears* 

[lambsy_uk]

Single was Don't Like Mondays, not sure about my first album, may have been Now That's What I Call Music 3.

[goldenwonders]

My first single is difficult, I had about 10 bought me for Christmas 1964 with a Decca record player - in those was My Generation, The Who - never looked back they were the band for me!

So my first LP was 'The Who Live at Leeds' in early 1971 £2.15p, my second Axis bold as Love' Jimi Hendrix 1971 from the £1 box at Woolies. Still have them both. Happy memories....

[aand2136-voqfz8yx]

Wow £2.15 (or would that be £2. 3s ). In todays money that equates to nearly £30. The single I bought in 1973 for 70p would be about £7.50 in todays money. Vinyl records were relatively expensive back then?

[goldenwonders]

Yes Correct two pounds and 3 shillings. Never ever forgot buying that LP - and its price. I still have nearly 1000 LP's - all sat gathering dust - but I would not part with them, much to my wife's annoyance! See pic below including my Live at Leeds LP.

I'm trying to remember how much singles were, I never really had the money to purchase many. I think talking around 1965-67ish they were around 3 shillings and 11 pence, although having googled it they tell me 6/9p - which I have to say does ring a bell but I would have said that was slightly later.  When decimalisation came in they were just over 50p.

[aand2136-voqfz8yx]

That's a lot and I don't blame you for keeping them. I only have about 200 and I never play them, but neither would I part with them. In the early 1980's and whilst still a teenager, I switched to CDs and have about 200 of them as well, although some are duplicates of the vinyls. I even use to buy some cassette tapes, but they didn't last and only have couple left now

[goldenwonders]

I sold off alot of my Cd's and put them onto my Sonos system, it saved me a great deal of space!

Most of my LP's are second hand purchased during 80-90's. I do have some really collectable stuff which I got for a song - just as CD's came in and people mistakenly wanted to get rid of their LP's.

I still have three record decks to play them on but can't seem to get the space to put a system together to start playing them - not that my wife and daughter would appreciate my music - no one wants to hear Alex Harvey play Vambo anymore! Bet that loses you?

[goldenwonders]

Thank goodness - there is still a few of us around, RIP Alex Harvey, you could have been a legend - but then again there were so many!

[fallen-archie]

My first single was go now by the Moody Blues and my first LP was Rubber Soul by the Beatles all pad for from my paper rond money

[lambsy_uk]

I have a few hundred records, I collected The Smiths and U2 when in my youth plus loads of other stuff. They ended up in the loft when I had kids and I sold the rarities on Ebay. Kept my stereo with a turntable though and now my kids are teenagers some of the records have made they way out of the loft and are receiving some air-time. My elder daughter loves playing some of my old albums.

However now that I can access almost any music on Spotify or Deezer there's a whole World of stuff that's easily accessible, it's awesome.

[goldenwonders]

yes but it doesn't crackle.... and it all sounds flat. I am getting a sonos amp to use my own speakers which might sound better. I use apple music but with so much available, it all seems to have devalued music in some way.

I don't have the excitement of buying that LP - ready to explore the tracks I had not heard and thumb the cover. CD's never did it for me and while my Sonos is great for dining with friends, my air guitar just isn't the same!