Unfortunately can’t say this is a great story as I inherited this album and a number of other classics from a close friends father. I had not actually seen his collection and my friend delivered a cache of them to me. There was so much gold in the collection and I had the most interesting luck with his Bob Dylan selection. He provided me with Self Titled, The Times They are a Changin and Bringing it all Back Home. I already have 7 varied Dylan releases and these 3 neatly fit holes in my collection with perfection.

Bill Haley And His Comets

Label:Festival Records – XP45-931
Format:Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP, Mono
Country:Australia
Released: 1956

One of my favourite old classics. I purchased this at an outdoor market place in Melbourne (Luna Park Melbourne) back in 2000. Very good memories when i was starting my Vinyl Journey. So cheap back then. I remember this day very well it was one of the coldest months in May. i could not feel my fingers.

This classic piece of Australian music history was released in July of 1977 and limited in pressing numbers to 3000 copies before being repressed in September of 1977 by WEA. It is a holy grail of Australian record collecting as it is such a worldwide influential album on the punk genre. Copies usually start at around $150 if you ever come across one in the wild.
I used to work on George Street at Town Hall in Sydney close to Red Eye Records. So one lunch break I’m digging through Red Eye when I came across my copy. It’s in the racks next to the recent repress from Citadel Records. The Citadel repress has a $45 price on it, while the Trafalgar copy has a $35 price on it. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I must have double checked the price a thousand times before taking it to the counter and hastily paying for it before anyone changed their minds about the price.
I was so excited when I got back to work, I had to double check the matrix online, as I still couldn’t believe what I had found and the price I just paid. The staff at Red Eye are massive record nerds too, they know the value and details of pressings for their second hand stock and have even released this record themselves on CD format on their label in the past so to this day I can’t make sense of why it was so cheap? I can only figure it was either a mistake or an easter egg for a nerd like me to find.

This is an original English pressing of Station To Station by David Bowie. When I travelled to Japan two years ago and I made a promise to myself that I would not buy a record unless I find a first pressing of STS, I walked through the doors of the first record store in Tokyo and the first thing I see is a this record on display in the front of the store and I knew I had to get it. Furthermore, Station to Station is my favourite album of all time.

My Mum talked me out of buying AC/DC’s Back in Black because it only had 10 tracks on it, she suggested Racey’s Smash n Grab as it had 11 tracks. I was only a 9yo but still today think about the poor decision I made in the record bar at Myer. I do now have numerous copies of B in B now and still only 1 Racey Album which hasn’t been played since 1981…

12 YO kid saved all his pocket and birthday money and went to the local record store in Vojens (Denmark), to purchase his 1st ever vinyl

This record was one of my fathers. I believe it is an original pressing and I found it when we were cleaning out my parents house as they downsized. It had been stored in a box for over 35 years.

Unfortunately we only have record 1 as the second has gone missing in the 50yrs since release. 😞 so might have to pick up a copy of the re-release shortly.

I was given this by my parents on my 14th Birthday and I still have it along with 500 plus other Vinyl’s my partner & I own. Our albums & Deck are housed in a cabinet he built from a wooden crate that new updated studio equipment was delivered in, to our local radio station.

Music has always been a big part of my life, and owning physical copies has always been something both myself and my older brother pride ourselves on. When I was about 14, I had a collection of albums around 100-150 strong (albeit, significantly less than my brother at that stage). Hand-me-down albums, garage sale pick ups – you name it, anything I could get my hands on, I was after it. One time we had a big family gathering at our house and I was in my room listening to a secondhand Beatles CD I’d picked up somewhere waiting for everyone to filter in. My Grandpa’s brother popped down the corridor, having recognised the tune. I remember him saying something to me like “Oh this is a great song, sounds even better on wax though!” to which I returned a puzzled look. I had no clue what he was talking about. He went on to tell me about his vinyl collection and some of the “crackers” he had (a common term both him and my grandpa still use). He could clearly tell this truly piqued my interest because a week or two later, I had a package in the mail. A weathered copy of “A Hard Day’s Night” – the first record I ever owned and ultimately the one that kickstarted my very own vinyl collection.

it had been my great grandfathers and when my grandmother had been moving to her new place a few years back she had found his old stash of records and had given me a few mentioning how he would of liked me to have them and thus i was given the dr hook records and is played on a regular occurrence.