Turntable Shopping

For the past few months I have been pursuing the internet for a turntable to put into the living room. I have a few vinyl records that I have collected over the years and I have a couple of more on the horizon that I could see myself getting. I am not looking to do any crazy music setup for a lot of listening; the convenience of iTunes and Airplay is too great, but for a select few albums I think I could definitely enjoy listening to them on vinyl. 

The turntable craze must be in high gear though as the prices for some of these old turntables is through the roof. Turntables that should be under $100 are asking for prices well over that number. The prices only escalate from there. I am sort of find this processing turning into the same frustrating you get when buying a car, spending a lot of time haggling over minutia only to walk away from the deal exhausted.

I suppose I will see how this endeavor goes and whether I will just break down and purchase a new turntable. The turntable itself is only a part of the entire process. I still have to at least get a set of bookshelf speakers as well. My old stereo receiver I believe has a phono input so that should hopefully be good to go on that front.