One Year Collection

A bit over a year ago, my wife went down a quick rabbit hole of: "Someday when we have more room, I wouldn't mind having a record player" -to- "I'm out with my friend and buying a couple albums just, you know, to have for the future" -to- "Look at this record player on Amazon and tell me what you think" ...within a ten day period.

I did some research and went with a Fluance model for her instead of the one she'd picked based on low cost and she started collecting. Now that we had a turntable, I also bought an album here and there but the turntable was in her work-from-home space so my use of it was limited. Later my older son moved out and I swooped into his bedroom before the U-Haul was out of the driveway and started the conversion including my own system and can play my own album collection at will. Some new stuff, some 90s college stuff, some old stuff although a lot of the classic acts are already represented in my CDs so I tend to just buy compilations or landmark albums of those for my vinyl library. Only my collection shown; her's has a lot more Taylor Swift.

Anyway, hitting up the shops has become a regular weekend day-date event for us and gives us at least one known activity whenever we're in a new town or city. "Hey, let's see what kind of record stores they have". Records and turntables are neat, collecting is fine, music is great. Have a swell holiday season, everyone.