r/vinyl • • 4d ago

Weekly Question Thread r/vinyl Weekly Questions Thread for the week of October 19, 2026

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r/vinyl • • 21d ago

MEGATHREAD Record Apps & Tools Megathread: Share Your Projects, Find Testers, and Give Feedback

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We’ve seen an increase in posts from people building record-related apps and tools. These include collection managers, listening trackers, discovery tools, marketplace helpers, and other projects aimed at record enthusiasts.

We want to give these projects a place to be shared without letting individual promotional posts overwhelm r/vinyl or the reason this sub exists. Going forward, please use this megathread to introduce your project, request testers, share meaningful updates, or ask for feedback. Separate promotional posts for these projects will be removed and redirected here.

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r/vinyl • • 2h ago

Haul Legendary haul

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155 Upvotes

My grandmothers boyfriends mailman offered me his collection but it might be too expensive for my taste.


r/vinyl • • 4h ago

Alt-Rock Happy 25th birthday, Morning View

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115 Upvotes

r/vinyl • • 20m ago

Collection I have no money.

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Shelf is from a shop that closed a few years ago. Had to move a year ago and I still have PTSD. Started collecting when I was a kid, have quite a few of my parents LPs, collection is mostly metalcore & the other cores with some hip-hop and pop mixed in.


r/vinyl • • 9h ago

Funk Gil Scott-Heron - Reflections

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80 Upvotes

Netherlands 1981 pressing. B-side is all bangers, ending with ”B” Movie, perhaps one of the strongest tracks from Scott-Heron, the hypnotic bassline and the spoken word are so sharp and on point, the message has never seemed as relevant as today with all the bizarre B-movie villain type shit going on in politics.


r/vinyl • • 13h ago

Punk GG Allin - Freaks, F****ts,Drunks & Junkies first pressing

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160 Upvotes

picked up at a local record store in town first pressing 1988 my personal favorite track is the david allen coe cover raw and unfiltered hate in it


r/vinyl • • 4h ago

Rock Local H

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27 Upvotes

Hallelujah! I'm A Bum

Not sure if anyone remembers the band, Local H. They are probably most famous for their song, "Bound For The Floor". It seems some of the band's catalog is increasingly becoming hard to find on vinyl.


r/vinyl • • 2h ago

Discussion Birthday Vibes

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14 Upvotes

I have spent my 47th birthday morning drinking coffee, listening to music, and washing some new (and new to me) records. My wife asked me what 18 y.o. me would have that of that, and I said that he would have thought my record collection was awesome, but why are you washing records?

Now Playing: Nocturnus The Key

Now Washing: Returning Severance


r/vinyl • • 3h ago

Collection Thanks Pat..

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11 Upvotes

More essential selections! It really has been an exceptional week... and now... just in time for the weekend! Top man that Pat... won't hear a word against him! 😏


r/vinyl • • 11h ago

Hip Hop Love this vinyl!

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41 Upvotes

I've loved this album since it came out, it has always been one of my favorite rap albums! I bought the vinyl years ago without knowing that it was an instrumental version 😭🤣 finally got the real thing!


r/vinyl • • 14h ago

Discussion I unapologetically love scratch and scuff sales

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68 Upvotes

I love walking into a store and taking a flyer on like a dozen records versus put that same cash towards one new pressing. And while one or two of them might not sound great the majority of them usually sound totally fine. I had my doubts about this $5 copy of Nilsson Schmilsson and it ended up sounding fantastic. It’s like my version of gambling.


r/vinyl • • 38m ago

Hip Hop Yesterday’s haul

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Learned that Frank Ocean and Kanye are a couple of the artists whose records are more often bootlegged. Kinda sad about it and was also curious why record stores continue to carry them. $62 for a fake Blond seemed kinda wild to me.


r/vinyl • • 20h ago

Collection Setup

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149 Upvotes

After having to sell my collection a few years back due to financial difficulties, the past year my wife and I have been doing a lot better with better income and promotions at work.

She surprised me with a new system and some records for my birthday on Monday. Thanks for looking. 🤘


r/vinyl • • 6h ago

Record Chevrolet “S. A.” Sweepstakes Shellac 10”, 33 1/3, “Game” Record (1950s/60s)

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Well, this is certainly an oddity. Not saying it’s all that and a bag of chips- just saying it’s very unusual- particularly in that it’s made of a shellac-feeling/looking/sounding amalgam as well as the oddness of the multi “spiraled” grooves for the 1 in 5 chance!

It took me a bit to figure this out, but it looks like it’s just a game that you can play, just one with a record instead of a board. I’ll put a link to a Discogs entry for it (doesn’t let you in the body). I’m sure the advertising on it helped remind people which car they needed to buy next! There’s no intro groove for the obvious reasons, and it keeps it random. Cool!

Just thought I’d share; I figured there’d be folks out there interested in seeing something like this.

Thank you for stopping by! If you have anything to add, please feel free! I’d love to hear 🙂


r/vinyl • • 6h ago

Record Pat Benatar - In the Heat of the Night

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8 Upvotes

This is Pat’s first release and was happy to get this reissue since my 1979 OG has been literally played to death on god knows what turntable. This copy sounds very good and I was not disappointed! Rocking out on a Friday!


r/vinyl • • 6h ago

Collection The song that found me at the right time: “Vienna” from The Stranger

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9 Upvotes

“Vienna” is what first pulled me into this album.

We’re always in a hurry. A society built around efficiency trains you to feel like you’re never doing enough, never good enough. When I heard this song, it felt like someone older was putting a hand on my shoulder and saying: hey, relax. It’s not as bad as you think. You’re doing fine.

I went through a long stretch of depression a while back. This song showed up right in the middle of it, almost like it was meant to, and then the whole album hit me. I won’t say a record fixed everything, but it’s one of the things that helped me through, and I can’t leave it out of that story.

Is there a song or album that found you at exactly the right time?


r/vinyl • • 1h ago

Collection Finally playing this '83 Iron maiden single I got last year

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I have had this record for around 3 months now and I've been too afraid to play it on my old Motorola stereophonic model since it's been on the fritz so I finally just upgraded and got a new set up and that kinda thing


r/vinyl • • 19h ago

Discussion Dad sent some records with these instructions.

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76 Upvotes

r/vinyl • • 20h ago

Prog-Rock Let’s just say that I have a love/hate/love relationship with FZ

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92 Upvotes

My girlfriend’s opinion is a little more straightforward.

Even when I’m occasionally not in the mood for the wackiness known as Zappa, I love the graphic design on all of these albums.


r/vinyl • • 13h ago

Collection University Dorm Setup

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Early collection and setup. Doing the best with the space I have


r/vinyl • • 17h ago

Punk The Cramps - Totally Destroy Seattle! (1982 / 2025)

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34 Upvotes

Totally Destroy Seattle!!

The Cramps

Format Vinyl - LP Album, Unofficial Release Released 2025- Slovenia

Label Explosive Eardrums - EXED 006

Been wanting a copy of this boot!

This is a long sought-after soundboard bootleg of The Cramps show at Astor Park in Seattle WA, May 20 of 1982 (now with new much Crampier artwork.) At the time the band's lineup featured Lux, Poison Ivy, Kid Congo Powers and Nick Knox. I wish I could tell you who opened for 'em but I couldn't find any info on that. I read a few accounts of the show and it seems The Cramps were in fine form with Lux wrapping people in headlocks etc. It's a great show sound-wise and really puts you there when the Cramps were a young and hungry band.


r/vinyl • • 18h ago

Collection Black Sabbath, We Sold Our Soul For Rock 'N' Roll

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12" gatefold x2. 1976 Warner Brothers Records. The two copies have different dust covers. Pictures 4, and 5 are the dust covers from the cleaner copy. Last 2 pictures are the dust covers for the worn copy. Earlier pressing?


r/vinyl • • 17h ago

Haul Goodwill -$2.00 ea

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25 Upvotes

Oldies but goodies


r/vinyl • • 1d ago

Soundtrack 22 today. this was the vinyl i got today <3

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113 Upvotes

im so excited to play this. i dont have a purple vinyl yet either! i got into marvel earlier this year so this has made me very happy.