5 Reasons You Should NOT Start a Vinyl Record Collection

Next, watch I react to comments from this video: https://youtu.be/zaaFjoxfnL8 Also, check out my video on why you might want to start a collection (these are reasons I love collecting, despite its occasional pitfalls): https://youtu.be/vieUN2l5ZoI

Is that a weak attempt to thin down the competition?

I think that having a healthy relationship with vinyl collecting is possible for anyone, but it’s also easy to go off the deep end. I only buy vinyls that I love, and I’m trying to make sure to keep my collection concise, balanced, and not overinflated. Also, not having everything you want is part of the fun and thrill of collecting vinyl.. or really collecting anything. It’s all a journey with no destination. Have fun with the ride, and don’t get too serious about it.

Collecting vinyl is a beautiful hobby and I love it.🙂

As someone who is in love with outdated media (vhs, old game consoles, ect) i will start my record collection and there is nothing you can do to stop me

1. Availability - I'll just buy a different record. 2. Fragility - I have some ragged records, that have been stored badly, that sound fine (turn down treble, and turn the bass up) 3. Expenses - fuck limited edition, coloured vinyl, and box sets. I'll take your dad's beat up Van Halen record, thanks 4. Storage - what am I gonna use those shelves for? Plants? 5. Transport - eh... yeah true

The space and money arguments don't matter to me. If I had no media collection I would be sat in an empty room staring at a screen that would need to be upgraded every time a new device came out. Not to mention all those subscription fees. My friend spends more money on owning nothing than I do on new releases.

I am recovering vinyl collector. It became an obsession of chasing down rare albums, buying expensive albums for a better quality sleeve, vacuum record cleaner, carbon brushes and importing anti static sleeves from Japan. Even the sleeve had its own sleeve. One day I realised I had a problem and sold everything. Now I am happy and actually enjoying music again with a decent set of headphones and my phone.

Went into a ' classic t Record ' store a year ago. Myfriend wanted to. The guy who ran the place ws pleasant friendly inviting. I told him i buy cds/ cassettes. He said, smiling, " Vinyl is fun!" He had a new Beatles rec for $50... No thanks. Got it for 10$ on cd.

I agree. This is why I buy cds. However, I would like to have a small vinyl collection again at some point (when I say small I mean 4-600 albums).

Collecting vinyl was fun over the last 20 years when great stuff was unwanted and 50p/50c but now everybody things their destroyed Beatles 7" is worth £100 and new albums are £30+. I'm in the process of starting to sell.

Too late mate.Already addicted and can’t stop buying 😁

Agree 100% I love vinyl & have a fair collection, but LP's are getting too expensive now, I usually won't pay more than £25 for a single LP, availablity of new material is often a issue in the UK. Good video👍

I started collecting vinyl in 1974 and have never looked back.

I still have all of my vinyl since my teenage years

This is coming from a guy with a wall full of records???? Come on man!!! You’re not the guy to tell someone not to collect!!

Yeah, I use to have like 300 Vhs tapes not to mention Dvds that I have in which I had much more, but now I only have like 50 vhs tapes, in one box, and records especially would take up alot of space, so I get that, but I'm more into Cd's, cassettes, and movies myself, with the occassional record. My relatives like my sister think I'm weird for collecting my stuff in general. Yet my nephew has a extensive shoes collection, lol.

Collecting vinyl is my #1 love, and I have been doing this for many years. When we moved to the USA, 70% of what we brought from the UK was my vinyl collection, and I don't regret it one bit. I agree that nowadays, collecting vinyl is a different beast when compared to the 'good old days,' but you can't beat it for appreciation, and sounds amazing when mixed well.

I only buy secondhand - mostly garage sales, and FB marketplace. I am in no hurry. Some years I score big, others I don't. I have other hobbies to keep me occupied when I am going through a vinyl dry spell. Its the hunt for me, and I only want original releases. Walmart can keep their $40 albums. I pay $1-$2 or buy in bulk, and resell what I don't want/need.

I was born in the mid-1950s, just about the same time that vinyl LPs were first introduced, so I grew up with the format and I was very familiar with its limitations (just as you have described in this video). After years of using vinyl, however, I found I was listening less and less to music on LP because I was tired of the labor it involved. When I bought a CD player and started collecting compact discs it immediately became apparent to me how much easier it was to access music, and I soon stopped using my turntable altogether. Eventually I decided to sell my turntable and give my LPs away to a friend. I have never seriously considered reinvesting in vinyl because CDs are providing me with what I want (and I really don't miss the diligence of the LP hobby).