To combat spam-bots auto registering for accounts, on the registration page you will create your username, provide your email address, enter a captcha (which apparently the spam-bots are able to do themselves) and enter a First and Last name.  This information is not published on the blog so, if you do not wish to use your real name, [...]

Have you ever read through one of my posts and thought to yourself, “this guy obviously has loose screws somewhere, I can write better paragraphs than that”?  Well, I have been considering this for a while but, now I think I am going to take the plunge and just go for it… I am interested [...]

The Fun With Vinyl family would like to wish all of you a Happy New Year with hopes and prayers of a wonderful and successful year for you and yours. Enjoy and get it on!

Well, the migration to a new host is complete.  Reports coming in are that the new host is accessible, download speed is back to normal for everyone and so, the move seems to have been worth it.  Now, it is time for me to do something that I try not to do very often and [...]

If you are a Facebook user and you haven’t Liked the Fun With Vinyl Facebook page yet, please take a moment to do so. One benefit is that you receive notifications of new blog posts right in your Facebook Newsfeed. Also, exclusively on the Facebook page are weekly posts highlighting top singles, debuts and chart [...]

I’m planning on paying a visit to a few participating, independent record stores this Saturday and try to get my hands on a few of the limited releases that are going to be available.  Here’s what I will be shopping for: Abba – Voulez-Vouz Extended Dance Remix Carolina Chocolate Drops/Run DMC – You Be Illin [...]

On March 3, 2011 Fun With Vinyl took up residence here at djrichiep.com, moving over from the free blog site I was using when I started blogging.  In the last year I have made many new friends and traffic here at the blog has steadily increased.  I was looking at the blog stats and thought [...]

Before FWV became a proper blog, I embarked on a project to digitize all of the tracks I had on vinyl that I didn’t have on CD. I didn’t originally start off recording entire records and scanning the artwork for them. My first attempt became a collection of loosely related volumes that I called Fun [...]

Myself, the Fun-Wife and the Fun-Son would like to wish you all a Happy and Prosperous 2012!  Happy New Year from the Fun With Vinyl family!

In an attempt to spread the word about Fun With Vinyl, I have now given it a presence on Facebook.  Click here to visit the page and give it a like:  FUN WITH VINYL  I need at least 25 “fans” of the page in order to get a username for the page so, if you [...]

We interrupt Paisley June for a worthy cause…  This morning I had a comment on the blog from DJ Dan Murphy of WACCI (We’re Australian Creative Collective Inc.) regarding the official video of the re-release dance remix of Olivia Newton-John’s “Magic”.  Every download of the song raises money for the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness [...]

The month of June brings two notable birthdays along with it…  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, Prince, will be celebrating his 53rd birthday on June 7 this year.  On a greatly less significant note, Fun With Vinyl will turn one year old on June 27.  Maybe, in 52 more years, Fun With Vinyl [...]

What 7″ singles series would you like to see next? The poll is now in the right sidebar, it will run for a week and I will begin posting the artist with the most votes on Monday, Mar 14, 2011.

Welcome everyone to the new Fun With Vinyl blog.  Work is still in progress here and I’ve got a lot of new things to learn about the workings of this site. To everyone that was receiving blog posts by email, please sign up for emails from this site.  Let me know if the emails are [...]

Hello everyone!  Just thought I’d take a moment to give everyone an idea of what is in the works for posting to the blog in the coming days, weeks, months, year, etc.  I get quite a few questions on whether I have this record or that record and could I post so and so…  Which [...]

I have joined the Amazon.com Associates program to try and generate a little revenue to help support the blog.  It doesn’t cost you anything but, will earn me a percentage of sales generated through my link to Amazon from the blog.  So, please, if you are planning to make a purchase at Amazon, come here [...]

  So… myself, the Fun With Vinyl-wife and the Fun With Vinyl-son headed out on Dec. 22nd for Gatlinburg, Tennessee in the Great Smokey Mountains for our Christmas vacation.  Things started out great, we spent the 23rd shopping at the outlet malls around Pigeon Forge and we spent Christmas Eve walking and shopping around downtown [...]

  The Brief: “And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, ‘Fear not: [...]

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     I am over 1200 miles away from home this week.  I’m in Boston for the 2010 SharePoint Technology Conference.  I did manage to get a break this afternoon so, I decided to seek out some local record stores and see what I could find.       Hopped in a cab at the hotel and made [...]

Due to the new layout that I implemented, I am starting a new General Comments page.  Same as before, anything regarding the blog, off-topic, requests, etc.  Most anything goes but, I do reserve the right to moderate anything I deem inappropriate.  So, here ya go, have at it…