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Hi. I'm buying vinyl at a fast pace. I can't enough of it! I'm rediscovering a whole love of music. The emotive nature of vinyl playback just blows away any digital format.

Not looking for an expensive, fiddly hobby.

It's almost all I buy. The only time I buy a CD is if I find a new album I like and it is not available on vinyl. A cool thing is that many labels are either including a CD with the record or a code to download an MP3 which can be converted to a lossless format in iTunes so you get the best of both worlds—the superior musicality, depth, detail, richness, and dynamic range of vinyl and a digital format for the car or on the go. What did I buy? Complete Clapton, My Morning Jacket, Built to Spill, Death Cab for Cutie, Sloan, Fleet Foxes Traveling Wilburies Collection, re-mastered Joshua Tree, War & October, The National, Doors Box Set,; Mudcrutch, Steve Winwood's Nine Lives Chrome Dreams II, and many more too numerous to list, plus a few used LPs.

I bought a Music Matters subscription.

I've spent over $1k so far this year at the local record shop.

Although I've bought some LPs, I think I may switch to digital only now.

I just spent $140 today on clean used vinyl from a dealer in Denton, Texas who takes the time to only buy top-quality records and sell most of the for $5. I got a coiple of promo copies and a 45rpm direct-to-disc—nothing over $10. The dealer closer to me in Arlington would get $15 or more for all of these—which is why I don't buy more.

With the uncertainties of high-definition digital and its mishandling by the recording industry, vinyl is the only safe high-rez investment.

I have spent more than $1000 in the last three months and maybe more than $2500 in the last 12. Is it quite a bit?

Unfortunately, my job has moved, and I am no longer working a short walk away from a great second-hand vinyl shop. Accordingly, my LP purchasing has dropped by a huge amount. Otherwise, I'd still be happily bankrupting myself as before!

In the last six months I've spent way more than I should have due to some treasure troves of used LPs. That and so many new records being released I just "couldn't" pass up. I have plenty already, most aquired back in my college days in the late 1980s and after, but unlike some, I always find something new to get excited about, or something old to try out too!

Almost 100% of my music purchases are vinyl.

45rpm LPs: Soultrane and Meeting by the River. Fantastic sound quality!

I've had lots of finds in used record stores and Good Will and a nice gimmee box.

New LPs are generally geared for the younger set and I pretty much have all of the older music I like. Besides, new LP pricing is waaaay too high, making the LP non-competative.

Nearly every software purchase I make is vinyl. I bought maybe five CDs last year, and I don't download. I would say my total for the last year was at least $2500 on records. That is a little higher than average, but I'd estimate I've averaged at least $100 a month on vinyl every month for the last six years.

I mostly buy used records and such. I prefer Classic rock, 80s new wave, and techno/trance. My main music source is CD and I plan to get a few SACDs and DVD-As. If I have it on Vinyl, I will have it on CD in most cases.

Lots of 180-200 gram new releases and lots of used/recycles.

As much as I can get hold of. I'm sweeping old stocks and garage sales. Also buying new, but I have concerns about quality with new production (warped, pops, etc, even 180g is sometimes bad...). Classical and 70s-80s rock.

I got some really good blues, and eight albums, like new, of Linda Ronstadt.

Mostly s/h classical e.g. Lyrita label British music recorded 30 to 40 years ago.

I gave up on the hiss, clicks, and pops when CD came around. This year I retired my old Phillips TT and tried a Rega P3 24. I was stunned that the new equipment produces virtually noise free realistic sound from the old LPs I have not yet thrown out, and unbelievale sound from the new audiophile pressings. Listeners are stunned when i tell them the sound they are hearing is not one of my SACDs, but a "record."

Only my wife listens to vinyl.

Maybe 30 albums in the last six months.

Too many to list; Every time I go out of town, I hit the major places in the town I am visiting which carry vinyl. On my trip to Madison, WI, I stopped at three record stores and brought back about a dozen records, both new and used. I also purchase quite a number online from Music Direct and Acoustic Sounds.

Everything from used $1 records to newly issued LPs. I'm hooked!

Same answer as last week! If I want tic and pops that come with vinyl, I will go way back and get wax cylindars for my Edison player.

My recent return to vinyl has also involved extensive LP shopping, as I'd divested myself of whatever I had back in the day. I've been buying lots of secondhand classical titles, and it's especially enjoyable to find first-rate recordings that are not available on CD—at just a few bucks a throw! My jazz purchases have been limited by the big price differential between jazz and classical; probably just as well, because space is limited and a crunch is looming somewhere down the road (hmm, do I really need furniture?).

I have spent around $2I 500 buying LPs this year. A "good" LP system can easily beat a CD system of the same price range. My major LP system consists of Acoustic Solid Wood Reference MPX and Shelter 901 MC cartridge. And I love it so much.

It's astonishing how many contemporary artists release on vinyl. Artists like Ryan Adams, Lambchop, Alejandro Escovedo. If it's available on vinyl, I buy it on vinyl. The best is when you get a code that allow you to download digital files as well. Otherwise, I have to rip the LP which is a bit tedious.