People who talk about music but don't own a record player: C/D

no? o ok

at the same time, i like being able to buy albums for pennies. it's *almost* cheaper and easier than downloading shit off the web.

Some Minuses of owning a record player:
-Records take up more space and are harder to transport
-Having to flip the side (if you're having people over this can be annoying)
-Wider variance in sound quality (if you have a shit record player/stereo or a bad copy of something, sorry, it doesn't sound better than a CD)
-Difficulty in putting songs on mixes, or on your computer or iPod

I think one would be much worse off for not owning a CD player than not owning a record player.

Since the onset of the home recording technological revolution + the internet making access to duplication, distribution, etc. services easy, there have been more than 30,000 albums released every year since 2001 (these with Soundscan barcodes, who knows about all those without). During the past five years, nearly as many recorded works of music have been released as were recorded in the 70+ years. In the next ONE year there will be more music released that you can 'get your head around'.

...and there's a school of thought* amongst yr audiophilic types that says that if you have really fantastic equipment (i.e. phase-accurate, full-range speakers, top-class sources), CDs are going to sound miles better than records.

(* - obv, there are plenty of audiophiles who will never accept the CD or have grudgingly accepted its dominance while loathing its "sound", but the notion [not explicitly stated here, but perhaps silently assumed] that this is the de facto audiophile position isn't true in my experience).

Phoenix Garrett was getting ready to work his first summer job. The Alleged gunman, L'mani Delina.

The victim's mother is still trying to cope with the tragedy.

Jacqueline Birkett-Johnson, Mother: "Most parents would say my son was a good son, Phoenix was a good child, headed in the right direction."

Witnesses say Garrett was sitting on a bench, selling CD's from a duffel bag on a crowded corner in Hamilton Heights. Five teens approached him around 4:30 pm. and began arguing. Delina allegedly pulled out a 38 caliber revolver and pumped four bullets into Garrett, who was trying to walk away.

An NYPD lieutenant reportedly heard the commotion, ran over and grabbed Delina as he tried to run. He held him down until back up arrived, as Garrett laid in a pool of blood.

He was pronounced dead at saint luke's hospital.

Birkett-Johnson: "He had a wonderful sense of humor. I could have been angry as a pitbull, and he would have said something to make me laugh."