Nice! I see that I'm not the only one lining out to a guitar amp. My stereo speakers are terrible, and my guitar amp actually produces much nicer sound than the speakers. I really need the right equipment, but what I have works for now.

Next Paycheque:
some Sun Ra
Rather Ripped
and one of these:

My dad's got a shitload of old vinyl records in the basement. Unfortunately, the payer is broken and needs a new needle (we think)

Is it true about the better sound quality than CD's ?

If you have a good stereo and you take good care of your records, this is true.

by no means should you think you HAVE to pay over $100 dollars for a turntable cause you most fucking defiantly DO NOT have to.

and invest in a cheap reciever PLEASE, fucking guitar amp?!

What exactly would I need if I were to buy one?

Now shove it up your arse!

A Turntable
Stylus (or needle)
An amplifier / Mixer
Anything that outputs sound (speakers, guitar amp, etc...)

some mixers work but still nothing to a device that is made for a phonograph.

typically if you buy a turntable it will already have a stylus, but you may have to buy one esspecially later on if you fuck it up trying to be a DJ.
i was at walmart the other day and they have stereo recievers for 50 bucks that are good. they have all the goods and sometimes even come with speakers for the whole home entertainment experience. if not hook up some speakers. i just have mine plugged into a cheap preamp which is then plugged into my computer and then my computer goes into my kickass sound system (which only cost 25 dollars at walmart, its cheap to be kickass man!)

cds have their place, but whatever.

you can buy these nifty little ones with built in speakers. they're really cool. they look just like a suitcase. here's one

ohhhhh sexy, white light/white heat on vinyl... why thats just.. ORGASMIC.

i have it on vinyl... big deal.

White Light/ White Heat is my favorite Velvet album. Sister Ray is so fucking awesome! I love that song so much.

I think we still have the speakers for my dad's somewhere. But the stylus is busted.

Nice! When I live at your place for 2 weeks this summer, we can use the speakers, I'll bring my player

remember, I THINK. it's been a loong time since the damn thing was last used

You have White Light/White Heat on vinyl?! Crap. I'm jealous. Is that an old copy or a recent reissue?

haha, just a recent copy. The store I got it at is pretty sweet though, they had a vinyl signed by iggy pop

Serious fan of both vinyl and the VU, I'm still jealous. I finally settled for a CD copy a while ago coz I couldn't find the vinyl, except for some ripoff antique shop that wanted 60 bucks for an old beat-up copy. Gimme a break.

I'd be very happy with a recent reissue. Probably happier, actually, since the vinyl no doubt would be in better shape than an old copy.

There's 2 limited edition VU vinyl's at a record store close to my place, I'll check them out for you and if you're interested I can probably send em. One of them's a live record, and I don't know about the other

yes, it turns out the speakers were sold away.

Damn...Oh well, we have our amps and we can always hook it up to your theatre system :D

Cool, thanks. Let me know what they are, and how much they are, if you don't mind.

no prob. I'm going later on today anyway so I'll PM you later tonight

thanks. I'll actually have to go offline for a few days, but I'll check in next week.

We have a mint original of White Light/White Heat at my work.
I can't afford it, but I like to ogle.

I listen to vinyl sometimes (more since we got the computer, as the record player is in the study). It's nearly all stuff from the late 80's/early 90's from before I had a cd player.

A lot of it's unavailable on cd, and I've largely upgraded the stuff that is. The big exception to that is The Smiths - they sound so suited to vinyl that I've never wanted to get the cd's. The same applies to some other bands too.

The only vinyl I still buy is very cheap stuff, old recordings and rarities. In Chester recently I got The Fall's Hit the North picture disc. Happy day!

Changing to CDs is not an upgrade, unless you're talking laziness factor.

I like not having to replace the stylus! Especially now that they are so pricey (and hard to find). I also like being able to skip etc. And not worry about scratches etc. And trading bootlegs is possible with cd. Good stuff.

Vinyl still has a special place, of course.

Haha, then again if you're willing to fish out $7,000 you can get a laser stylus and never have to replace it. I see what you mean about scratches and bootlegs though. Personally I use pretty much all of the popular mediums.

Vinyl - Sound quality, collecting, vinyl-only material. Best packaging out of all mediums.
Cassette - Mix tapes are awesome, and directly recording is sweet too
CD - Portable and practable. 300 songs/CD is a good amount, and probably the easiest out of all to make compilations
MP3 - I'm getting one next month. Portablilty, 15,000 songs on a small device, recording, portability, CD Text