Vinyl records...  

It sounds like you had a great collection. The friend you gave them to must have been pleased :) I'm sure the Beatles records would be worth a lot of money in good condition. I saw The Beatles "red" album for sale yesterday for 40 euro (which is about $57 US money). It was a rare pressing though, it was on red vinyl. I saw a lot of great records there. If I had have had another 300 euro yesterday I would have spent it.

I almost forgot to mention that I also bought my favourite ever album on vinyl (Relics by Pink Floyd). :)

:)) I still say you were born in the wrong decade!
Now I'm trying to rack my brain, and remember the Beatles albums (names)... you have to understand I grew up with the Beatles, and were pretty sick of them, not my most treasured!
I AM and always have been a HUGE fan of The Eagles, and I had 6-8 albums of them, their classic Eagle skull, and there were some that had the "firebird" on the album (the record part) they were VERY cool.
Now I have CD's :)

I grew up with The Beatles too. We only had a three bedroom house between my parents and me and my five brothers and sisters so I had to share a room with my brother. My brother had Beatles posters all over the room and was always listening to them or John Lennon. I tried my best not to like The Beatles because they always reminded me of how I didn't have my own bedroom and couldn't play my own music or hang up my own posters. I got past that eventually and grew to love The Beatles though :) They're not my favourite band but they're in my top 10.

I assume you mean static (the crackly sound) rather than actual scratches. I agree that certain music just doesn't sound the same on CD as it does on vinyl. CDs are more durable but they seem to have a more 'digital' sound. There's certain frequencies that CDs don't play because the manufacturers originally thought the human ear couldn't pick them up. And when a CD does get scratched it's useless.

If I had to guess what your purple vinyl was I'd say Purple Rain by Prince. I'm probably wrong though :)

Yeah, I meant the staticy sound that vinyl tends to have. I couldn't think of the right word so I said scratchy. Also, like you said, CDs don't always have all the sounds and tones that the vinyl recording do.

Yes, it was Purple Rain. Cost me a small fortune back then, but so worth it. Ended up selling it for way more than I paid for it in the late 90s. I had a wedding to pay for and needed the money. :)

I've had some CDs that were scratched, they sound like a scratched record only even more annoying. If a record is scratched you can just move the needle past the scratch, with a CD you have to stop the entire album and take it out :(
Vinyl sounds great but you have to more careful when handling it. Sadly most vinyl on sale now is second hand so you never know what you're getting. I bought a copy of Abbey Road and it's in pretty poor condition :(

Bummer.I have been lucky, I bought the Beatles album that has the song Michelle on it at a garage sale and it was in great condition.But I know what you mean buying second hand. It is like what Forrest Gump said, " You never know what you are going to get."

I bought a pretty good record player in Argos about four years ago. You need a stereo with an auxiliary input to use it. It sounds great though and it was reasonably cheap :)

You can't beat vinyl, I even like watching it spin around on the turntable. Cool avatar by the way, I can tell you like music :)

thx!i love that little rabbit!

Sounds like a great collection. I have thousands of CDs but I don't have much vinyl sadly :( I'm thinking of giving up buying CDs totally and saving my money for the next record fair that comes to my town.

That's great that you got a gift of a record player. Four years ago I had nothing to play my records on so I bought myself a turntable. I hate having records and nothing to play them on.

They still make vinyl but it's hard to get. The Red Hot Chili Peppers last album was released on vinyl.

I don't think anything else sounds as good as vinyl. CDs sound too digital compared to records.