Hey-ho! It's been a while since my last blogpost, particularly the one that I wrote in English. This time I just want to share about my not-so-new interest on vinyl records. I want to collect them because I love music and I always want to thank you for it (just like ABBA's song). 


Few years ago I found out about a form of physical record that's really special, exclusive and everlasting, which is the vinyl. I had some cassettes and CDs when I was a student. I still have few of them now, eventhough I don't have any compatible music player to spin it. Thankfully there's CD room in my MacBook so I was able to play the CDs and ripped it to my iTunes library.


Back to vinyl, my interest is growing since I become a fan of vintage and old style band and musician, such as White Shoes & The Couples Company and Lana Del Rey. Both artists release their albums in vinyls. Somehow, I feel like holding their vinyl records will give indescribable satisfaction to me. Yes, I want 'em!


However, my logic tried to stop me several times. Because this kind of hobby surely is expensive. A vinyl record costs about half a million rupiahs. Besides, I have to buy a vinyl player or turntable which costs about three times of the vinyl itself. Wew! 

My first vinyl, The Emancipation of Mimi (2005) 15th Anniversary Edition (2020 Pressing)


Long story short, I decided to go for it and start to buy my first vinyl record, which is one of my favorite albums all time, Mariah Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi. After that, I also bought my another favorite album, Born to Die from Lana Del Rey.

My second vinyl, Born to Die (Deluxe Edition)

There's several reasons which finally made me to spend my money for it. The main reason is because I have enough spare money (due to pandemic situation I rarely spend my money for travel or fancy dining). Second reason, actually I just spent my money for several things (mostly for necessities and family business). Then, I feel like it's okay for me to use my money to please myself and start a new hobby - vinyl collecting.