what are the main vinyl formats?
 

mmm, google comes up with billion different results and i really cant be bothered to research more, can you tell me?

do you mean the speeds??

16rpm, 33 1/3rpm, 45rpm and 78rpm...

16rpms are real rare and usually were used for sound effect recordings and the like and 78s were done by the 1960 i reckon.

^Yeah i found that out before the replies, thanks though.

i still have a shit record player, the one with the magnetic arm that throws your records onto the moving turntable, with a 16rpm setting. i am considering right now breaking it out of the attic and putting the locust or melt banana on 16 rpm to get the shoegaze out of the noise!

I used to have a record player that played 16, 33 1/3. 45. 78

I remember when I was kid I once put some of my grandmother's records on the 78 speed to make it sound like chipmunks doing "Wackadoo".

even better. put on some shoegaze and indulge in the sound of the universe's weeping.