Becoming a record collector

I have always had collections growing up. Baseball cards, comic books, spiders, paintings, hats, dirty magazines, etc. Growing up my folks always had a little stack of records that they never really busted out and played. Being born in 1980 it was more the era of cassette tapes and eventually CD's. Growing up shared my step dads love for rap music and when and my mother split up, in 1993, I stopped listening to it for a while. At 17 years old I was in a metal band named "Drunk by Noon" which prompted me buying a 4 track recorder. The fact that it is very difficult to record any full band on a four track. So I started making Rap music.