How young were you when you first heard something that made you feel old?

@BamPow I had the same experience years ago at a garage sale. I was sorting out a large array of vinyl LP's, and checking their condition.
As I was looking at one, a very young kid says to his Mother:
"Hey look! Big CD's!"

@JSul3 Who knew they’d ever be cool again?

@BamPow I started buying records at age 5...45s, then eventually graduated to LPs.

I still have them, as well as a turntable to play and enjoy them.

@JSul3 That’s about the age I was when I got my first record player. I’ve never stopped collecting, too. The first LP I got that wasn’t a kids album was the 1976 King Kong soundtrack with the poster. My dad had quite the collection, so as a kid, I listened to a lot of Stones, Zeppelin, Aerosmith, and Jethro Tull. I always just grabbed his records, so I didn’t really start buying my own with my money until I was a little older.

@BamPow If you chase "cool", you'll wasye time and money.

@SomeMichGuy A lot of my collection was purchased at 25-cents per album when they were trying to give them away. It floors me to see some of those records going for $20+ each.

@BamPow An old friend of mine had a humongous collection. He just loved his music and Records. These were LPS and 45s hahaha and I used to love so much watching him dance cuz he danced so well and we would just laugh and have the best time to gather. We were always singing to the oldies everywhere we went and even on top of the dam hahaha we didn't care who hurt us and we drive out to the lake and he would open the car doors and let the music fill out and we'd have a good old time. We love doing that in the evening at a little cold where it was so beautiful and the lights danced off the water. We would sing all the oldies and had so much fun. We were good haha I miss those days very much.

@BamPow Good timing!

@SomeMichGuy I’ve got over 2,000 records, and according to Discogs, my collection is worth between $40k and $80k. I assure you I paid a small fraction of that for it.

@BamPow Smart

@BamPow I'm not surprised you have that many. So did my friend. Oh I know you paid a fraction of that. So did he and I'm sure like your collection they are pristine. He still has them and boy are they a joy to hear. There's some songs in there from the '50s that I'd never even heard before.

@LadyGrace New-to-you music is awesome. My favorite thing to do now besides filling in any holes in the collection is to take a complete blind flyer on records I’ve never heard of. I’ve found some really great ones by just rolling the dice. A big part of the addiction of collecting them is finding music I never knew existed.

@BamPow That is so exciting. I just love things like that. I know you're really proud to have that collection and you should be. How awesome!

@LadyGrace I think a record collection can be a deeply personal thing unless a person is strictly doing it as an investment. I’ve still got children’s records I received on my 4th birthday when I also got my first player. Now I play them for nieces and nephews when they visit.

@BamPow 😊😊😊

@BamPow A lot of that is going around these days...........

@BamPow i have those but have never played them not even for my own kids.

Just recently realized this turntable may have 78rpm

@Orca4950mine has 16 r. p.m.;

@KznLvr You mean 16-2/3 RPM.

@SomeMichGuy yes. I stand corrected;

@KznLvr Actually, thank you. I had no idea of the first two speeds in this list


from a wikipedia article--thanks for teaching me something new!

What sort of recordings do/did you have at that speed?

@SomeMichGuy ancient records, jazz mostly

@KznLvr Like Monk, etc.?