Myself, I find it the perfect way to support my favorite artists. You see, with the current method of streaming on internet being the number one way to go these days, artists are paid disproportionately based on their streams in a month. They should get paid in a way that allows them to support themselves through sales like artists of yore used to do with vinyl records, cassette tapes, and CDs. The problem is that no one buys CDs and cassette tapes anymore. However, the vinyl industry has seen a resurgence in popularity, and I find that outside of going to concerts or buying tee shirts and other merch, the best way to support my top favorite artists is buying all of their albums on vinyl.

It’s pretty cool to “collect” them too. While I definitely admit to storing some of my older records in cardboard boxes out of sight, I do have to acknowledge the fact that I only have so much room to put the rest on display.

What’s cool that I’ve seen people do, though, is hang their vinyl albums (either just the record itself or the cardboard casing that has the actual album art) on their walls as if they were picture frames. Heck, some people even put the vinyl records in picture frames in a professional and put together kind of way. I definitely know I’ll be decorating my walls with the vinyls I end up amassing over the years.

Overall, I’m a big fan of collecting different vinyl records. What’s super cool is purchasing only those albums that you can truly sit down and listen to in full. If you’re only a fan of a few tracks from an artist, I wouldn’t ever recommend buying a full record simply because it’s not worth the price and collection. In fact, I solely deal with 1) artists who I know very well and 2) albums that I have listened to at least 5 or 6 times through and enjoyed each time. Once I’m at that point, I know I’m into a record in its entirety. Otherwise, those records that I don’t enjoy so much? Well, they end up sitting in cardboard boxes in storage.