Replying to a message of /m to Bob.Ackley:

 >> Buy 'em on the used/secondhand market.  I haven't bought a new
 >> recording in years, at an auction last Sunday I blew $300 on a rather
 >> large pile of phonograph records, many of which are older than I am
 >> (I'm 61).  Not a dime for RIAA ...

 /> I've got more than enough albums (2000 or so, plus a few hundred 78's,
 /> and a few hundred 45's).  If I buy anything used it would be CDs of
 /> the albums I have, so that I don't have to go through the hassle of
 /> converting albums to digital.   That's a task I am not looking forward
 /> to.

Hmmm.  About 5,500 LPs, 16,700 45s and 5,400 78's here.

When I was much younger my dad kept yelling at me to quit wasting my money
on that 'garbage' ('garbage' in this case being 45 rpm rock and roll records).  When
you tell a teenager not to do something what's the first thing s/he is going to do?
He inadvertently created a monster ...

--- FleetStreet 1.19+