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I spent thousands of dollars on albums - I don’t think I ever bought more than a handful of singles. Then I had a burst pipe that flooded my living room and destroyed everything. It all went into the dumpster, ruined by water damage. I didn’t have the heart to rebuild the collection.

I enjoyed the album art almost as much as the music itself.

My love of album art caused me to choose graphic design as my College major! I loved the 12 x 12 format, and liked it even better when you could unfold a double album for a beautiful panorama.

The only good thing about cd’s is the fact that I can make my own in my little 16 track studio.

I still design the covers, but they are so small!

We lost our collection to a flood as well. It was heartbreaking. We thought we’d never go back and try to recover any of it.

Years later though, our kids started getting interested as they became young adults. We bought a turntable for our oldest, and found some vinyl of some new bands. Then we discovered that there are lots of old vinyl shops. A few here and a few there.

Now when my husband travels for work, he looks for a vinyl shop in the city or town he’s working in. He makes a special effort to get to them and peruse the selections. It’s been maybe 10 years in the process, but we have almost completely recovered his old collection, plus added ones that he always wanted. It’s been a lot of fun rebuilding it!

The artwork is amazing and we love how the vinyl sounds. Now that we have it all working again, I don’t think we’ll ever not have vinyl in the house. It’s such a nice reminder of our younger days!

So each of our three kids have their own turntables. They love helping look for albums that my husband is interested in. It’s a hobby that our whole family enjoys. I encourage you to try once more. I think you’ll find that eventually your heart heals, and that you get so much comfort from listening to tunes the way you used to.

I enjoyed the album art almost as much as the music itself.

From your own account, it would seem that you valued the "albums" themselves exclusively, since the vinyl discs themselves, containing the music, must surely have been intact. I can understand that, but let's be real.