As a 5th grader (1971) I started buying 45s, you know, the singles, which I still have.

As a teen I started buying vinyl (record clubs anyone?) and cassettes. Cassettes I mainly listened to in my car. I had installed a cassette player under the dash of my Chevy Monza and ran wires to two 9 inch Jensen speakers (bought from Sears) mounted in speaker boxes. I was able to take the speaker boxes out of my hatchback and place on the roof of my Monza for those lake parties us kids participated in.

As an adult I continued to buy vinyl, but when Compact Discs came out, I stopped buying vinyl and switched exclusively to CDs, and sold about half my vinyl collection in garage sales.

Around 2018, I started buying vinyl again but also getting the occasional CD. The last couple of years (2022-2023) it was strictly vinyl. This year, 2024, it has been a mix because vinyl prices have gotten ridiculously high. So I’ve bought a number CDs lately. Some stats – 2021-2024 Vinyl = 103, CDs = 47

So this video is my answer to a YouTube CD tag – a list of questions regarding your CD collection. So, I’m part of a vinyl YouTube community and a CD YouTube community. In most cases that is the same people in both.