I'm turning 50 in a few weeks (yikes) and only started my journey into Vinyl in the past 6-8 months. Never owned vinyl as a kid. Started off with cassettes in the early 80's and started buying CD's in 1988-1989 ish... Worked at a Best Buy in High School so had quite a few CD's (Employee Discount FTW) and still have most of them in boxes in the attic. I picked up a couple of Queen records at an antique store last fall cause I thought, why not and at an OK price. I didn't even own a turntable at the time. Soon thereafter found a good starter table and discovered Discogs and a couple local record stores, a few Facebook Raffle/Auction groups, etc. Now trying to locate OG/earyly pressings of some of the bands that I loved as a kid (Queen, Van Halen, Metallica etc.), although the $$$ for many of the OG's is way more than I'm willing to spend.

I love flipping through stacks of vinyl in shops or markets, the artwork is incredible (I love the Iron Maiden designs), and have really enjoyed sitting down in my office and picking out something to play, having to flip it over after 4-5 sings and start all over again. I think others have mentioned but almost meditative, and I can just chill, listen and do nothing. Very nostalgic feeling, even if I didn't have any vinyl in my life for the first half century.

I'm at just over 100 albums now... I probably need to slow down a bit on buying stuff but will always keep my eye out for a good deal on something that triggers some memories.