100 Reasons why vinyl is the superior format.

Where does it say that? What does it matter? You can stuff your lousy thread.

(keith M see #1)

cheap CDs => not as cheap.

I was sent vinyl through the mail once. It was fine. Wasn't broken at all.

76. They have vinal that glows in the dark!!!

Yeah, yeah, it's a piece of piss receiving it. But try sending it...

Vinyl was dead before I was born, and I can remember my Dad being on edge every time we played his old "Star Wars" record.

!!! omg

kind of like the end of raiders of the lost ark

if not, road trip

'We have collectively over 14,000 sq. feet of space in two warehouses which are across the street from one another. Our two story warehouse is where our vast amount of nearly 3 million Lps and 45's are stored. In our 6500 sq. ft warehouse across the street we have compact disc and videos for sale. We also offer discount records at this location. We get 1,000's of records in each week'

holy shit!

i'd take a trip down there. ILV fappin' in miami.

st. petersburg is far from miami. i'm on the hunt for some closer venues. will report back.

ha, sorry for my poor understanding of florida geography. still, yeah, looks like a roadtrip worthy destination. i'm thinking of going when i'm in florida next year ...

definitely sounds like a trip worth taking.

hm. SWEAT records, which is a very nice independent brick-and-mortar music store in miami, has an online vinyl shop.

but again, doesn't seem cheap, to me.

maybe i've become spoiled based on emusic's prices. maybe the new pricing system at emusic will cure that.

i went to Bananas a couple times back when i had money. it's a pretty good place, really depends on what you're looking for, though.

shipping charges are high ($5.00 per album, but maybe that's the norm).

To me, everything about vinyl is just more fun-- the shopping, the artwork, the playing. I like that it connects me to a time when listening to records was more likely to be something you did as an end in itself. I like flipping through records. I like looking for good deals. The fact that good sound can come from a vibrating piece of material in a groove seems like a miracle to me, somehow even more so than a laser reading 1s and 0s. I like how records sound, but I can't really say if they sound better than CDs to me, because there are so many other parts of the experience that make it better, I am sure that colors how I hear too. I like that I am listening to albums from the 60s, 70s, and 80s in the format for which they were designed. I like that it slows me down and that it isn't easy to switch to something else. I will say that the shopping aspect of vinyl is a big part of for me, finding good deals and going into stores not knowing what I will find in the New Arrivals used bin. I like collecting but I don't pay a lot of $ for things. Most things I find and like are between $4 and $10 or so, and they need to be in good condition.

as a kid w/ limited funds, discovering used vinyl shops back in the day was a fucking godsend -- for the price of one new CD you could get, you know, four or five classic records. not necessarily rare stuff or anything but coming home with, say, five rolling stones records i'd never heard was an intense experience.

^^^yeah this was a big deal to me. Why spend $25 on some dubious indie band when I could buy half a dozen classic Cheap Trick records for the same amount?

hey, you're ignoring my link

YESTERDAY AND TODAY RECORDS
http://www.vintagerecords.com/

google sez 15-20 mins from Spec's where you bought your player. website has a whole page of those 180g sealed psych reissues for less than $15, so you know their used prices are nice.

23. album covers are the perfect weed tray

23. album covers are the perfect weed tray

Unless its really seedy, then those seeds always bust up the spine...

23. album covers are the perfect weed tray

so true

I kinda wanna start a thread, Top 100 Gatefold Albums to Roll Joints On...

bought another copy of zoso
seeds were bustin' up the spine

think i wet my pants doin' whippits
not too many, bud's just fine

those last three words to echo down the tunnel of your years...

There's just nothing about a CD that makes me want to just get high and sit down and listen to it. My career as a pothead really began in earnest when I started collecting prog LPs.

sit me in the lap of the gods, babe
cover me with skin and hair
rider #1 on the hump train
screw you if you think I care

Stoner music is one of the best arguments for this format, you are experiencing historic music in a historic manner so you get a better sense of what being a real 70s prog fan was like!

^^^^^

Jeez, I'm a vinyl fanatic, but that makes me want to dump the lot and buy an iPod

Alice Cooper School's Out has flaps on the back cover to fold out into a little desk

as far as price, the place i bought my record-player (spec's music in coral gables) has a small vinyl section. but everything is expensive! it's all, like, $25.00 a record. you say vinyl is cheap?

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, October 20, 2010 12:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

some places really, really jack up the price of used vinyl fwiw. don't shop for vinyl thinking that you have to pay $15 for--to cite an example--a steely dan LP when you could probably pay $15 for good clean copies of their first 7 albums.

$15 total i mean.

yeah I don't think I paid morethan $5 for any of the Steely Dan albums I got, with the exception of a copy of Can't Buy A Thrill that was in unusually pristine shape

yeah, i think i paid probably $20 for all the steely dan records on vinyl. maybe less, i know at least one of 'em was $1.

and that is some serious value right there.

WOW. that's a great price. for good quality records (no scratches, distortions, warping)?

i need to explore other outlets to buy vinyl. i don't think i can hack paying $25.00 a record.

i got the entire classic Dan at a record fair for a buck each, all minty. love those 70s albums with the thick inner sleeves (and classical with the high-quality paper/plastic ones reserved for Good Music).

22. inner sleeves

21. big cover art

(no scratches, distortions, warping)?
i mean there's some crackles and pops and so forth, but for many those crackles and pops would be a reason why vinyl is superior.

you'd be surprised at how nice a lot of $1-$2 records can look and sound.

i'm determined to find out.

20. You can get one of those little toy cars with a stylus underneath to drive around and around a record (spiraling in) and play the sound through its tinny rooftop speaker.....

19. you can clean dirty records and they sound better

18. house music

why house music?

tonight, having just opened the syl johnson vinyl set from numero group, this cheap record player is a revelation. The sound is noticeably better -- richer, warmer, fuller, better dynamics.

and yeah, the whole record package makes it seem more like a valuable art object. thrilled with this.

I like that it slows me down and that it isn't easy to switch to something else.

this is my favorite thing about vinyl these days. step away from a computer, put away a cellphone, and just d-_-b

I can't wait to actually have the space and the cash again to do a full stereo setup with a turntable and to start buying vinyl again. Esp since I have a hand-me-down macintosh amp and receiver that I'm psyched to set up.

yeah sometimes i buy old classical records just for the sleeves and swap them out.

Box sets where you carefully lift out the black plates by their edges, rather than tangling with complex plastic hinges that snap in an instant

okay, yesterday & today records is close-ish to my area. now vinyl-obsessed, i will try to visit it tomorrow.

17. a big vinyl collection impresses people

16. when your stylus wears out, you buy a new one. when your laser gets damaged, the whole unit is fucked.

been thinking of just buying vinyl again when I do buy albums, at least they will appreciate in value, unlike this worthless 1000 cd collection I am saddled with.