I’ve been interested in vinyl for ~10 years but I always thought it was too big of a commitment or I’m not enough of an audiophile to justify jumping in. My music tastes are highly varied, basically anything except modern country or heavy rap, but I’m a child of the mp3 and Spotify generation and I have a short attention span that makes it hard for me to play entire albums straight through. I also struggle a little bit with the idea of paying $20-35 for albums that I can already listen to through a service I pay $15 monthly to use. It’s a character flaw that I’m not proud of, but I’m still a tiny bit envious when I go to someone’s house and see their vinyl collection, or see it featured in a TV show or movie. My mom needed a Christmas gift for me and I honestly couldn’t come up with anything so I finally decided a turntable might be nice. I did some limited internet research and found the Fluance RT-82 was commonly recommended as a starter turntable. I was originally attracted to the Audio-Technica AT-LPW40WN because I wanted a lighter woodgrain style, but the internet pointed me towards the Fluance model. Santa was nice as always and fulfilled my Christmas wishes. When my uncle died about 10 years ago, I acquired a few records from him. They’ve been in my closet ever since because I had no way to use them, but I got them out and was pleasantly surprised to find some gems: The Beatles - Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles - Hey Jude Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Eagles - Desperado Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 Not knowing I already possessed it, Sgt Pepper was going to be one of my first purchases, so that was a great discovery. Tonight, I set up my new turntable, which will be playing through my Denon AVR-x1400h receiver and Bowers & Wilkins 606 bookshelf speakers. It was all quite exciting and I thought it was really cool to be able to listen to “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” playing from the same record that my late uncle once listened to. I liked him but don’t have much left to remember him by, so this is kind of special. Whatever reluctance I had to get into vinyl, a switch flipped and I’m eager to start adding to my collection. I don’t expect this to replace Spotify in my life, but they can complement each other, much like paper books can coexist with Audible and podcasts. I live in Fort Worth and I see Doc’s Records mentioned in this thread, which is about 2 miles from me, so I’ll be checking that out as soon as I get back from New Orleans.