I love vinyl and I have to say that it’s my favourite way to listen to music. I do have lots of records, that have been collected from the 1980’s. I’m an 80’s rock music fans so from Iron Maiden to Poison, Helloween to Motley Crue is the stuff that I listen to the most. However, my favourite band are Guns n’ Roses – ever since I first heard a bootleg copy of It’s So Easy. From that I was hooked and I’m still a big fan to this day; so the mini-reunion is a great thing for me and I’m hoping we get some UK dates in the near future. I have pretty much all their stuff on vinyl.
Anyway, back to topic, yep, I love vinyl and, recently, I’ve just been given a new stereo system with record player as my previous one had gone kaput.
Vinyl is great, I love the little crackling as an album is about to start and the sound is just something that can’t be bettered – my opinion of course and I’m sure there are plenty who will disagree, fair enough. As I said I have loads of vinyl, singles and albums, plus I have my fair share of picture discs. Now, I think picture discs are bloody cool, excuse the French
, and finding them, back in the day as it were, was always something that always gave me a buzz. Now, with cd and digital music the more popular, there is not really anything like that to go looking for. I know there are limited editions etc but I just don’t think it’s the same.
It’s good to see vinyl making a little comeback but the music that is being released on vinyl is not the sort of music I listen to. For me, the charity shops, ebay etc are where I like to go looking for records. Charity shops, especially, can be perfect places to find some cracking stuff.