Two partners at RHS started a joint music collection over a year ago and they have been developing their assemblage since then. Senior Skylar Belgarde introduced her boyfriend Kaden Manna to this hobby.
“I started collecting vinyls and I asked for a record player when I was like eleven or twelve,” Belgrade said. “I started out with twelve vinyls and I wasn’t able to play them and then Kaden said I really want a record player so we just picked it up and started collecting again ever since then.”
“She got it first and then introduced me to vinyls since she had been collecting before, she had a bunch of Nirvana stuff and I thought that was really cool,” Manna said.
Both Belgarde and Manna enjoy the same genres as well as their own personal tastes.
“I like collecting a lot of metal and rock, stuff like that,” Manna said.
“I collect all different kinds of music, I like alternative rock, hip hop, and all different sorts. I also love album covers. I actually got In Utero tattooed on my arm,” Belgrade said. “I love colored vinyls as well so they are my favorites to collect because they come in so many colors.”
The two own many expensive vinyls and can not keep track of which one belongs to who. Most of the vinyls stay at Manna’s house.
“I feel like we have about 100 vinyls and they’re really expensive because they range from 25 to 50 dollars so probably all together we’ve spent 3,000 dollars,” Belgrade said.
“My girlfriend collects stuff and adds it to my collection because she doesn’t have her own record player personally so she uses mine but we collect together,” Manna said.
“I don’t even remember which ones belong to Kaden and which belong to me but they belong to one of us and we just share everything and they’re all kept at Kaden’s house,” Belgrade said.
“My rarest one, well my girlfriend got this one but it’s the Saltburn vinyl and it’s pretty gross but it’s really cool, it’s liquid filled,” Manna said.
Belgarde already knows what she wants the end goal of this pursuit to be.
“I want to ultimately pass them down to my kids when I grow up, I think they’re really cool to collect,” Belgrade said.
