When actually it was the day before. I bought "hounds of love" by kate bush, "The river" by bruce springsteen, "shaft" by isaac hayes, "alive" by kiss and "swordfish trombones" by tom waits from robs records in nottingham. And i'll no doubt buy some more next payday!

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Into The Great Wide Open, was probably the last 'new' vinyl album I bought for myself, in 1991, and the FPO gave me the double vinyl version of Van's Hymns To The Silence the same year as a birthday present. But there have been many much later secondhand vinyl purchases of hard to find stuff, most of which isn't on CD at all.

I'd bought everything by the Fabs (and solo) on vinyl LP, 12" & 7" singles for 30 years up to that point but for the first time it didn't smell or feel like a real Beatles' record.

And what's more it was 3 LPs. They call that a boxed set where I come from!

The magic had gone.

This is Hardcore.

Gatefold. 1998?

Been meaning to purchase a turntable and start again, but life gets in the way.

about three years ago. I bought it because it had the most hideous cover which reminded me of Gris Gris by Dr John.

After her excellent gig at the Sage Gateshead the vinyl just looked so lovely sitting on the merchandise table, dwarfing the CD. So I paid the extra £2 and bought it. Came with handy download voucher so I could burn a CD of it for the car.

Of course I play the home burnt CD and the MP3s much more than the LP but it's a nice thing to have about the house.

Roxy Music - Avalon
Promotional disco compilation LP for Palmolive soap
Willie Nelson - Country Willie
Moe and Joe - Just Good Ol' Boys

Last new one was Decemberists - The King is Dead

Genius of Modern Music Volume 0ne (Blue Note)

The late 80's and early 90's was my serious jazz phase. I have not bought any new vinyl since but I do hanker.

The King is Dead, Amazon £13.99 delivered!

I think this was the last vinyl I bought in 1989 before moving to CDs.

While I haven't bought any "new" on vinyl I cannot resist a charity shop: last acquisition was Bob Booker and Earle Doud "The First Family" featuring Vaughn Meader, a comedy record from 1962 that parodies JFK.

And I haven't listened to it yet...

Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming

It's been a long, long time since I bought any vinyl. I reckon the last was most likely the "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Sampler" in 1989. A double album designed as a preview of (and a purchasing incentive for a CD player to hear) the then forthcoming series of 6 double CDs of live archive material, none of which have ever been released on vinyl, to my knowledge. That most certainly was my tipping point into the world of CDs after a brief and foolish flirtation with cassettes (spit!).

by Neil Young.

I wish I could remember but I guess it would have seemed like any other purchase at the time.

I can say it would have been a 12" piece of UK streetsoul like this. I went from buying about £100 quid a months worths of 12" vinyl in Soul Sense in Luton to nothing virtually overnight.

In fact the last time I went in there I had about 5 or 6 hundred quid to spend as a result of an insurance payout after CD's stolen during a break in and on that visit, after loading up with loads of soul and funk on CD and vinyl I also asked for Paul Wellers Wild Wood which had just come out, suprisingly they had a copy and from then on my 10 year love affair with black music quickly faded as I got back into white guitar music. So I guess anything bought on that day may have been the last.

...but I suspect it was probably something second-hand from Reckless Records on Upper Street in Islington or the Soho branch. Some 7" or other from the early 80s no doubt.

They had a while where they were selling old 7s for 50p a throw. I used to buy armfuls.

As to the when, probably about 1993 or 1994.

I haven't had a working turntable since about 1997, apart from a year where I shared a house with somebody who had a decent turntable.

....Amazon mis-priced it at 12.99, should be around 40-50 quid but they honoured the order and got it just before Christmas. Even has that dark poster of George.

I love my vinyl. Thankfully I kept my collection over the past 15 years stored at my folks but now I have a nice turntable, just need a new set of speakers, amp and cd player, and i'm ready to go again.

The Soundtrack of Our Lives "Golden Greats Vol. 1"...wonderful gatefold double album on heavy duty gold vinyl. Inner sleeve has a huge photo collage that just wouldn't work so well on CD, and you wouldn't get at all with a download of course...

To cap it all I'm mentioned in the photo credits and there's a little pic of me and Mrs Retro - made my weekend!

Easter 1988, I was 13 and we were going on a family holiday. I decided to buy THREE albums for the trip. Even then, I wouldn't buy tapes, I'd buy vinyl and "rip" them to cassette for Walkman listening.

I went to the record store in the local shopping centre and it pains me to this day to tell you two out of the three purchases:
Wet Wet Wet - Popped In Souled Out
Whitney Houston - Whitney
Talking Heads - Naked

The Talking Heads purchase was an impulse, if I recall, I had bought the Road to nowhere and Wild Wild Life singles when they came out. I didn't know they had a new album out but I thought the cover of Naked was awesome.

I came back from the trip with a cheap discman and thankfully spent the rest of 1988 investigating the Talking Heads back catalogue on CD.

Pretty sure it was a Teenage Fanclub 7" containing the instrumental that was used by BBC Radio Five Live during the 1998 World Cup.

There may have been one or two second hand titles after that.

Heaven Is Whenever. Silly really - I don't have a turntable.

"The Go-Betweens 1978-1990," released in 1990.

Last one I bought was The Orb & David Gilmour's Metallic Spheres for the GGH for Christmas.
Not really my cup of tea, but is quite soothing, and is pretty good background music (not too distracting) if I'm working on the computer. Being a vinyl double album, it means I'm forced to take screen breaks to flip the sides over, which is a good thing.

Vinyl still thrills in this house. I do buy a lot of CDs and rip them to a network drive, then pack them in a box in the loft, and I don't miss the physical object at all. But a vinyl LP is a tactile thing of beauty, and something to pour over and savour.
Wouldn't be without it, and it'll be a sad day when I can identify my final vinyl.

The GLW 'surprised' me with a Dukla Prague Away Shirt at Christmas, which came with a 7" of The Trumpton Riots b/w AIWFCIADPAK.

The last piece of LP-length/sized vinyl was tucked away in the deluxe 'In Rainbows' box set which, in a Tufnellesque fashion, I have never played and which I don't even look at.

Prior to that there have been a few limited edition singles from the likes of the Arctic Monkeys. However the last ever 'serious' vinyl purchase is lost in the mists of time.

for 50p at the Lions Club Christmas Fair in December. I liked the cover. Oh, and a whole load of Cure albums for the same price at the same event. I have since had my turntable repaired and shall be out looking for more vinyl. Don't tell the boss.

Probably purchased within a few days of release.

Here's the contemporaneous video for the single. Another fine example of 80's technology gone bad AND a pony tail/pushed up sleeves combo :-)

Don't know if I prefer the A or the J side

Valhalla Dancehall

I've got the new Mogwai and the new PJ Harvey on preorder too. I love a nice bit of vinyl, me.

A Blast First compliation. Good cover by Savage Pencil, ISTR.

I bought these two off ebay at about the same time as I couldn't get either of them on CD, don't think the first even exists and the second is only available as an horrendously priced and hard to find Japanese import.

"Jam Science" - Shriekback

"Tack>>Head Tape Time"

Last bit of new release vinyl was this 10" single

Depeche Mode's 86:98 double vinyl LP package of greatest hits. Sumptuous Anton Corbijn artwork - limited edition number on the front. Quite expensive. Never played.

last year I got special editions of Sabbath, Mogwai and loads of other stuff. They are all shrinkwrapped and hopefully clocking up in pounds.
Last thing I got and actually listened to was the Lee Moses 7" of Time & Place for around £40 about 3 years ago. I waited ages for it to come on to ebay and snapped it up.(See the thread about obscure record to play others)

but I don't. Last vinyl I bought was a Charlie Parker double album circa 1993 - I still have it somewhere but since I don't have a record player I don't know why. Also kept a couple of Costello 12"'s when I sold the vinyl albums.