I have quite a few. These days I buy my music on LP first if I can, as many companies now issue CDs or download codes with the record. I find some good things on TAIGA records or the always excellent musicstack.com if you don't have a good local record shop. It's a website for mostly smaller, independent record shops to reach a bigger audience, so it means you avoid the majority of the corporate graspers like Amazon.
There are many turntables out there available second-hand, and I wouldn't worry too much about what you have as long as you're enjoying the music. Online music 'gear' fora are some of the most geeky places one can find online and the endless discussions about what is 'best' can mean one ends up listening to the components not the music. And paying thousands into the bargain!
Something older and well-made and by a respectable brand will be available somewhere for a reasonable price (less than a hundred euros). I've been fine with an old Pioneer of my grandfather's, supplemented in my recently-built amplifier with a more modern Rega that was ex-display. To play my 78s I have a portable wind-up gramophone!
DIYaudio.com has an astonishing array of knowledge if you want to build your own hi-fi bits, or tinker with existing ones.
