Yes, still got loads.

The oldest LP I have (from memory) is With The Beatles, which I knicked off of my Dad, but there's a few more stored away and their names escape me right now. I should go and dig them out.  There's definitely an original Marvin Gaye early album too which I cherished at the time.

Nothing better than going into a 'proper' record store, chatting with the owner about new releases, listening to a few in one of the booths and then spending your time browsing through all the racks.

I still think there's nothing better than owning the actual album.  The sleeve notes used to be a mini novel in themselves.

Nope..we still have ours too....some of it too shameful to actually acknowledge the existence of (unless it suddenly becomes worth a fortune overnight!!)....we did have a lovely radiogram to play them on but that went a few months ago....one day we will get another record player....nowt like the crackle of vinyl!!

Oh jeepers Issy, I've got piles all over the bedroom floor upstairs. I'm waiting for my brother to come with his book to see what's worth anything and I'll get rid of the others.

We've still got all of ours Issy - probably at least 200 of them. I can't imagine getting rid of them. We've still got the turntable too - sometimes on a Saturday afternoon when the house is empty I fire it up and have a good old bop about

Issy, get a turntable and some software or you can get USB turntables these days that alllow you to convert 

My brother has all of his old Beatles albums - and all of them tell a tale.
I agree - I remember saving up for LPs and then buying them . You really felt you had something special.
My favourite is "Out of the Blue" from ELO. It was a double album and the second disc was blue.
Apparently that could be a collectors item one day.

I don't have any of my vinlys left.  Had quite a collection of picture discs at one time but foolishly gave them to a charity shop when my record player (or gramophone ) packed up.

There is eqiupment available these days which convert vinyls to CD.

I love my vinyl 

That said.. happy head on today  cause I just got my paws on a CD version of one of the first albums I ever bought ( the real thing is all bent out of shape and scratched to bits now) Spent the last hour grinning along to Robert Johnson ( not THE Robert Johnson, this is a geeky looking powerpop gawd! ) - Close Personal Friend. Magic!

I really want to get a record player. My new house has a converted garage which is now an office/den. I could put it in there...
I wonder if you can buy them anywhere still?

Yep, I've got one that wasn't bought that long ago 

Love a bit of madness that is ELO.  You should definitely hold on to that album, Issy.

I remember buying Songs In The Key Of Life - I read the sleeve notes until I could almost recite them from memory!  I used to put it on on a Friday night and listen to it whilst getting ready to go out.  It's not his best album but it's one that evokes great memories for me.

I think I did a blog once and we had a giggle over our antiquated old record players.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I bet you wish you hadn't have done that 

I've still got the original Sticky Fingers, with the zip ... that is going for between £30 - £245 on ebay. 

If anyone wants to pay £245 for it, just PM me

Oh where?

I went to a vinyl party not too long ago - everyone had to take their favourier vinyl. It was brilliant. I took 'A Night on the Town - Rod Stewart' - Mr Woo took 'Parallel Lines - Blondie' - it was a brilliant night - so many memories.

Thats brilliant - all the memories

soozy - that sounds like a brilliant idea - I might do that

Bought mine off Amazon I think. Mine's a version of the Sony one here

 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Turntables-Music-Hi-fi-Sound-Vision/b?ie=UTF8&node=4085841

I am so pleased that so many of you have your vinyl still. 
I know in today's world everything is minimalistic and instant but there is something magical about the old records.

PM's Rexi......................not 

Great satisfaction    Not quite the same ritual of playing it though as an LP, but it's better than not being able to play an album you like at all.

Remember when they used to do coloured vinyl for 45's...?
I've definitely got a couple that are bright orange.

Thanks Pam - I will have a look.

Does anyone remember stacking the singles up on top of each other and then when one finished the next would drop down and play?

Yep! Hadn't heard it since I was a teenager, but as soon as I heard the first few bars of each song it was total recall Weird, eh, how some days you can't remember your name but you remember lyrics from all those years ago

That is one of my favourite albums. It was recently given away (CD format) by the Mail on Sunday......was the only reason I bought the paper. 

Yep, with the penny taped to the arm to 'weight' it 

Gawd, I can remember putting my Every Picture Tells A Story album on top of the fireplace.
It warped, of course.  I'd only owned it for about an hour.

Ahhhh, I have a stack of them! Used to work in record shops on Saturdays and got loads of stuff like that !

Anyone remember the replacement middle discs you could get for singles too 

Oops!

Yes ............not always reliable - especially on a stack of eight.

Never did that, but I did leave the arm to the side so the record would play over.. and over.. and...... etc

Still got mine in a cupboard somewhere. When I was buying vinyl I tended to buy a lot of singles and played them on a knackered turntable, so I doubt they're in pristine condition after so many years. 

Hard to believe that a 45rpm single with at most two B-sides was almost a week's pocket money and now is a small fraction of what music kids can purchase with their pocket money.  Without sounding like an old git, there was more emotional attachment to a vinyl record and seeing a group perform your song on ToTP, although of course, such things made more impression on a younger mind.  Another thing you could do with vinyl was just look at an LP and make a fair estimate of how long each track would last. 

I agree with ~Cosmopolitian~ about physical item that was a vinyl recording.  The artwork, the type of paper, sleave notes, if there was an inner sleeve.  TBH, I've long lost interest in artwork and sleeve notes but a single or album in the vinyl era was more of a unique item.

Yes and Yes..!
Used to lose the middles and send my mum crazy moaning about it.
And if you stacked more than 8 singles they used to slip like slippy things and sound hilariously distorted.

Ok......own up time..........who had a Dansette mono record player? 

They looked like wee Isle of Man symbols

My brother's copy of Blackberry Way warped ...  so he put it in a warm oven to flatten it out.

yup

A lot of my covers have mug stains on them - I really did abuse the poor things.

I found one single - "My Eyes adored you" by Franki Valli which had "this record is rubbish" scribbled over the cover by my indignant 10 year old self

Inherited mine from my aunt - still got it