Yeah, I've still got the "Big Bambu"(not bamboo) album with the giant rolling paper in it. Could never afford enough to fill it and roll it!

I've seen ads for the equipment that you can buy and put a record on and make a digital version. Never tried one. I use a program that I bought from an Australian company called CFB Software. The program is called LP Recorder and it also came with LP Ripper. Just had to buy some cables to run from the amplifier to the Line In jack of my sound card. Cables bought at Radio Shack.

It was fun to record old albums and burn CDs from them. Even with the transfer from records (analog) to digital format, I didn't really notice a drastic change in sound quality. Unlike the new CDs, which i don't really believe capture the true dynamic range of the music.