Jim Croce
Memories and Photographs

Yes, last year. Katatonia.

I buy records on a weekly basis. Most recent was the Mobile Fidelity half speed remaster of the Eagles first album.

1989

Well,I have been buying some used and new ones lately. Most of the "new" ones are newer pressings(like The Clash,London Calling)

The last vinyl albums I bought when the albums were also released:

Roger Waters; Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking (bare tush an all) which was bought in Nice, France and,

Metallica; Black Album. Bought in Canada

A friend of mine came back from vacation with a record he said I just got to hear. He said this is the guy who composed every song on Bat Out Of Hell for Meat Loaf. His name is Jim Steinman. Meat Loaf had some kind of problem and was unable to record what would have been his second record. Bad For Good. Steinman took over and recorded the record himself. I wore out two copies of vinyl of that record and bought a third. That would put it in the late 80's and that's about when CD's started to take over.

Just bought a new one of the out take versions of Blood on the Tracks by Dylan.
There’s a song on there called You’re gonna make me Lonesome when you go. It mentions my hometown in the song. I always wondered why Dylan played this little hotel in my little town. Seems he had been in love with a record company executive who came from there. They had lived together in Minn and then they broke up. BTW, I didn’t live in San Francisco or Honolulu.

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Tinderbox 2021 Maroon vinyl NAD reissue. Purchased the day before yesterday.

No but I remember the 1st one I bought because I still have it.
Dire Straits and I think it was late 70's?
I did have a decent collection in the 80's but cassette tapes came along and that was it for vinyl.

Tough to say, possibly either the soundtrack to Stand By Me or American Graffiti, in which case 1986.

I never bought a vinyl record for myself, that last one I bought was for my older brother in 1981 for Christmas. I was 11 and worked at a dairy farm after school and had my own money

It was Freeze Frame by the J. Geils Band, soon after, probably Christmas day, my Mom discovered that it had the song Centerfold and I was instructed to return ASAP

Gary Wright, Dream Weaver. Bought it in 79

Ten years ago I bought three Tom Waits LP albums for my daughter for a gift. Not sure which was the last but all were within a week of each other :

Heart of Saturday Night (1974), Small Change (1976) and Heart Attack and Vine (1980).

She is a huge Tom Waits fan and loves playing his stuff on the piano. (She had piano lessons from age 7 years old through college).

Visiting my daughter in Denver last summer I picked up a Commander Cody album. Before that...had to be many years.

Yep; the Ray Conniff and His Singers We Wish You A Merry Christmas LP about two years ago.

First cassette tape I bought was the rolling stones tattoo you. Friday I just got in the mail tattoo you 40th anniversary deluxe box set. It includes several CDs and a vinyl picture disc also a remaster of the original album.

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I don’t recall the last vinyl record I bought but the first CD I bought was The Rolling Stones Tattoo You CD. At the time, it was only available as an import from Japan.

Yep. Matchbox 20. Bought as a collectible in the 90s never opened or played. Destroyed in storage. Before that - no idea.

Had to have been nearly 40 years ago. I can’t remember. I still have my LPs but haven’t had a working turntable since the early 80s. I’ve lived in a series of old pier and beam houses that weren’t conducive to good results with a turntable and records. The floors were too springy.