Do you mostly buy used records from back when vinyl was the standard way of listening to music? Or do you also buy new releases?
I became interested in vinyl about a year and a half ago, and was exclusively looking for used records from the 60s and 70s. However, since vinyl has increasingly become the main way that I want to listen to music, I’ve been buying new releases now, too. My collection is still mostly older, used records, but I do pick up some new ones now and then. Most recently it was the Hades soundtrack and Lord Huron’s new album.
Mostly older stuff for me. Shit like Jefferson Starship, Journey, and Survivor. I do have plenty of newer records as well. I don’t really buy new ones anymore. It’s become too expensive a hobby.
Mine is a pretty good mix, I started my collection by nabbing my parents vinyls. So i started with a good bunch of older music. Today it’s about 60% new 40% old.
Mine is more like 80% older, 20% newer. I try really hard to find new bands I like, but it’s hard man. When I was in school, I used to laugh at the old timers who only liked those five bands they’d been enjoying their whole life, but really, I do that too a lot of the time. Every now & then though, I am surprised and find a new groove. Most recently, that was Pom Poko and Screaming Females.
Oh shit the screaming Fernandes are 10/10
more than 85% thriftstore / flea market.
I like hunting for gems in unsorted piles, I dislike overpaying for well curated records. Don’t want to support the fabrication of new records too much (big climate impact), but I dislike that records that have already been made and were cherished for decades suddenly become “trash” because it’s currently out of fashion.
I’d like to think I have a healthy mix of both. Some albums are imo best in their original or earlier pressings (or at the very least in terms of bang for buck) and some have great remasters that make for the definitive version of the album, which can also be quite the personal preference.
For instance, early Zeppelin pressings (namely Porky Pecko and Robert Ludwig cuts) beat the most recent remasters out of the water, imo, but maybe I’d stick with the Classic Records’ 45rpm pressings if I’d been one of the lucky few to get them then.
And I definitely enjoy the older pressings from Pink Floyd’s DSOTM and WYWH more (have one with an HTM cut), but I like Animals’ 2018 Remix the most, when it comes to that album (although I could see someone prefering the OG’s sound) and the Syd Barret-era Mono versions remastered are great if you don’t want to lease your ass to pay for OG pressing prices on those.
Personally, I’ve moved from originals to good remasters, when possible, the better my system got, because it’s harder to find OGs from last century that are in good shape at a reasonable price and don’t take away from your listening experience with noise.
I definitely agree on that last point. While I do find something satisfying about knowing that this record from the 60s was made back when the band was first getting big, that does mean it inevitably has some pretty poor sound quality.
I have 3 or 4 older albums, and all the rest I buy when the band announces the new album. I almost exclusively collect records to support bands that I like.
