I buy books on Audible because I don't have time to read, though a book is my favorite gift provided it has an inscription from the giver. I buy music in person usually. At a used CD store called V-stock. I buy vinyls to decorate my office walls at garage sales and at an overpriced vinyl reseller called Vintage Vinyl here in St. Louis. If you've heard of them, Vintage Vinyl will sell you an overpriced album of theirs. If you haven't heard of them, they'll sell you what most people would call 'reasonably priced' crap. Thank god I only buy the albums for their covers and I don't have to listen to all of them although I really love my Kim Wilde album It's so quintessentially 80s. And it has Keep Me Hangin' On on it. But I don't buy works of art. But I want to. So tell me where you buy yours.
You need to remove the fullstop in your linked image. I wonder, have you thought about buying movies on old formats (laserdisc, VHD) for their covers, or even the Disney big-sleeve stuff they released last year? Are you happy with the resurgence in vinyl, has it made it easier for you to collect covers you want? I think it's really cool, there's some great artwork out there that is not available in any other format than 'cover art'.
Thanks, Cedar. I took the period out. The laserdisc and VHD (which I had to look up) covers are an interesting aside. Here's the record wall in its current iteration https://imgur.com/1PuOR4B so I still have a lot of room to go. Another row below that one, and then the wall to the right of that one as well will be covered. As for the 'resurgence of vinyl' it blows my damn mind. People are paying for a vinyl copy of a digital recording because they don't know any better. There are certainly exceptions like Jack White's Third Man pressings, but that's because Jack White actually has been a student of the music industry for a long long time and actually is one of the few who can pass on vinyl trickery. Echo grooves, reverse tracks, hidden tracks, Jack White can do it. But people just buy vinyl now to buy vinyl because they think it's cool. And that's fine. I really don't give a shit what people spend their money on. But my point is that there aren't many albums out there with craftsmanship put into the LP sleeve and recording medium like there used to be. Look at this Alice Cooper LP for example. It has "School's Out" and the cover is a desk with graffiti that would take a long time to read through and then on top of everything the record is wrapped in PANTIES! There isn't a resurgence in vinyl for the most part. There's a cash-grab for suckers I think.
Love the wall, you'll have to build an extension if you get anymore ;) There's a lot of ingenuity and creativity that has been lost to the ages, though I suppose that's true in all technology as progress is made. Digital files makes it harder to provide things like pantie-records, not impossible, but certainly more expensive ... and I guess that makes it harder to justify the effort.