[Album] the inevitable 'what the fuck are Vinyls?'

I happen to have a moderately sized collection of vinyls (100 ~ 150), but most of them I've gotten from people who where getting rid of them. This counts my brother, who also gave me the turntable with a bunch of rock albums, a professor for whom I worked as an assistant who was moving (exclusively classical with a Pink Floyd album stuck in there for some reason), my girlfriend's grandparents (mostly golden oldies) and this old woman that my girlfriend knew who donated about a dozen full length opera recordings to her.

I've bought a few myself, but I've never actually gone above 5$ for a single vinyl, as I don't particularly like the medium itself as far as practicality or sound quality goes. The only albums I did buy were either just things that I had heard about but hadn't been able to get my hands on or albums that I didn't have and which were available on the cheap.

Jam it back in, in the dark.