No, but my parents do though. they're thinking of getting a Minidisc player to record them onto...

I still carry my boom box to school on and off.

It's kinda heavy because it runs on 8 9volt batteries or something.

But it's awsome, I use it at home to sometimes when I'm not at my computer.

My father used to have one, but he gave it away to one of his friends when we got a boombox. 

I recommend it. My whole system only cost me 12 bucks at the thrift store! Hot diggity damn, that's the best deal I ever got.

My collection's not too big so far though:

Toxic Narcotic/A Global Threat split 7"
Minor Threat's first demo tape(7" )
Tragedy/Totalitar split 7"
Strong Intention/Solid Decline split 7"
Botch - An Anthology of Dead Ends(10" )
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Altered States of America(10" - white vinyl: only 100 pressed!)
Capitalist Casualties - Disassembly Line(LP)
Bad Brains - s/t(LP)

As you can see, I mainly like to use my record player for the small stuff. I have the Dropdead/Totalitar split on CD and it's only 9 minutes long. Looking back, I should have gotten the 7" instead. Also, if you look in page 12 of the "What did you buy today?" thread, I've got a few more records coming.

I have 2 old record players down in my basement. One of them i actually have hooked up and play all my parent's old records from the 60s 70s and 80s. I swear, its so much fun.

Although we had one in the house, I only ever used the cassette deck on it.
It's gone now and my parents have a dire taste in music.

Records? Now this is a thread I will love!     
I have an record player: A new one, since my last one - a some decades old record player - got damaged.     
The new record player is good as well, but he has not the charme of the older players.

Beside of that I own dozends of old-styled casettes, 45rpm records, 33rpm records and even some oldie old-old 78rpm records.
I guess by now I own more than 80 records (vinyl and shellack).
I have some CDs as well, but just because it's not a good idea to carry records around all the time. Broken CDs are easily to replace, but old vinyls or even shellacks - ha! - not!
Most of my records collection is by Herman's Hermits, Armanda Lear, John Lennon, Frank Sinatra and Schneewitchen - na, not the fairy tale "Schneewitchen", but the feminist band     .
There are other bands as well, often very rare records. (Not realy worthful, but rare somehow.)

Edit:
"You may call me a dreamer, but ..." I think old vinyl records do smell far better than CDs. Really.

I have one (or rather, my parents have one). It doesn't seem to work as well as it used to. Lemme tell ya, listening to 'O Fortuna' in alternating slow motion is one of the funniest thing I ever heard. My parents have dozens of records up in the atic. I had a look through them, but alas, many of them suck. I did find In-a-gadda-da-vida, though! Awwwww yeah.

 

Originally posted by Ranadok:
it is stuck on high speed

That's bitter.
High speed? You mean maybe 45 rpm? In that case you could still listen to 45 rpm records with that player.
(The 45's are mostly the smaller vinyls with just one song on each side).

It took forever for dad to find a new stereo system with a record player built into it when he wanted a new one for upstairs.

 

Originally posted by 3/4 of a Jesus:
JOHN LENNON?? LL, you have awesome taste in music. And, any feminism music sounds interesting to me, although I've never heard Schneewitchen before.
 

Thanks, thanks and again thanks 
About Schneewittchen, plase read a few lines below ...
 

If you go into Newbury Comics, there's a huge rack with records of all kinds of albums, old and new. A lot of Beatles records are there, especially. Heaven.   

Where is this Newbury Comics?
 

Originally posted by germanfryfan:
my eyes grew bigger and bigger with every band you said! But I don't know Schneewitchen either, do they sing in German or in international languages? How "feminist" are they?

Schneewitchen mostly sings in German. Ballads and rocks. Their most popular song is "Der Mann der ist ein Lustobjekt" (= "The Man' is a Lust-Toy" ).
They are feministic, but have found a good way to make their songs hear-able for women and men.

 

Originally posted by Jeremy:
Jefferson Airplane

I have their "Worst Songs" album  or was it "Worst Hits"? Anyway, it is far better than the title says.

Random question: Anyone else ever did listen to the beautiful sound of an old 78 rpm record? Those which were made from "Schellack".
Or do you even own one?
I guess I have at least 8 of them. One of them is from Mantovani, another one from Duke Ellington.

I bought a brand new technics turtable 2 months ago.
I love "outdated" technologies

But to me, the record is not outdated... Awesome sound and the best looking format ever! 

 

Originally posted by TheLesbianLeela:
I have their "Worst Songs" album    or was it "Worst Hits"? Anyway, it is far better than the title says.

Me too. 
*looks*
It's "The Worst Of Jefferson Airplane"
The other one I have is "Surrealistic Pillow"

I believe I do, somewhere in the back of my basement. Too bad all the records the family has suck.

 

Originally posted by germanfryfan:
Thorens TD318.

That's a nice one.  It costs a thousand dollars in the US.  Great sound.  Are Thorens turntables popular in Germany?

I run a Grado ZF3 cartridge on mine, because I can't afford a Shure V15VxMR, but it sounds really mellow. 

My record collection has a lot of jazz from the '60s like Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane, and Modern Jazz Trio, some fusion with Jaco Pastorius on the bass, plus a load of old classic rock like the Rolling Stones and Crosby Stills and Nash and the Doors, plus current stuff I've bought like the Hellacopters, plus some old bay area hardcore and death metal LPs and 7"s that my friend gave me because he used to run a label here, plus all my cheapo used acquisitions, which is mostly old metal like Nazareth, Saxon, AC DC, Rainbow, etc.  It's a good group, I think.

I have two record players, both Vestax.
I mainly collect dance vinyls but am known to purchase old songs and albums I liked when I was younger.
The vestax are the PDX-2000's with ortofon carts.

I've got a nice Dual 502 from the late 1970s that's in great working condition.

I also have a Gerrard from God-only-knows-when that accepts stacks of records to be played one after the other.  It even plays 16 and 78 RPM as well as the standard 33 and 45.  The thing still works like a charm too (though I never stack more than one record on the platter at a time, cause of the vinyl on vinyl scratching that occurs).

My neighbour has some really old turntables - one is an old hand-crank job with a brass horn for the sound.  It's a real beauty.

 

Originally posted by canned eggs:
 

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Originally posted by germanfryfan:
Thorens TD318.

 That's a nice one.  It costs a thousand dollars in the US.  Great sound.  Are Thorens turntables popular in Germany?

I just checked the bill of it. They bought it in the end of 1986, in addition to a yamaha A-1020 ampilifer, a Denon DCD 1500B CD-player, an onkyo TA-2330B Tape-deck, an Onkyo TI-4250 Tuner and Denon Hi-End Speakers complete for about 6000 DM.

I think when it comes to high-end products Thorens record-players are famous in Germany. Isn't Thorens a German manufacturer with factories all over the world, I don't know 

I have a record player behind me right now, can't seem to find any records for it at the moment though...