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

I still relish time spent *just* listening to music--but even then, I like it to be literally just the music. Thre's not an emotional/nostalgic appeal to me in preparing the vinyl, flipping it over half way, etc.

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i went back to the salvation army the other day and they had the same 20 vikki carr LPs they had before.

Well, in case you're ever uncertain whether you're meeting your "crap" quota, and your opinions may be in danger of unstable unreliability levels. . .

Fuck cleaning something everytime i want to listen to it.

All in good fun. Except maybe you?

http://www.yoursongscollectibles.com/item-542.jpg

hehe

Actually, if "people who don't know music theory who make music with people who do: C/D" were the question, I'd go big up C.

There's digital mastering and then there's digital mastering. Studios these days are using much better digital recording techniques than were available when the CD format was invented. The information often gets dumbed-down when it's mastered for CD. The vinyl, in these cases, could sound better than the CD.

"you'd have to ask someone on ilm who i have sent a tape to if they sound okay though."

They sound great!

In the sense that a record is like a high-quality negative and a CD is, at best, like a non-compressed digital photo---no matter how big the digital photo, if you soom in you eventually see pixels, whereas with a negative you can blow up a print to almost any size?

That makes sense--literal, perfect analogue should half "all" the information. But what record players/hi-fi's/listening rooms can fully take advantage?

That makes sense--literal, perfect analogue should half "all" the information. But what record players/hi-fi's/listening rooms can fully take advantage?

Except that physics limits the amount of information you can extract from a source. LEARN 1 INFORMATION THEORY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Theory

I've sold a lot of my LPs out of necessity, moving around the country and out of it. I keep a core collection of about 200 must-haves, mostly original classics from 1976-1987. I don't have a record player right now, but I do plan to get one eventually.

I know what all that old music sounds like on vinyl, but right now I'm content with MP3s for the sheer convenience.

Do I win?

What about, I don't know, MONEY?

wrong!! i'll even trump miccio's example; i had a faulty luomo mp3 with a bit of the song excised (it was "so you")... it kinda sounded like an abrupt jump-cut & i thought it was totally cool! eventually i got the album and it wasn't there anymore, it was a faulty mp3!!

MUTEK HERE I COME

I can only listen to musicals on vinyl.

I need a new stylus but apparently the kind I need isn't available anymore? Maybe I need a different Radio Shack clerk.

But then again, the less people with record players means less people buying records which means more for me!!!!

www.needledoctor.com you can e-mail them for info.

yeah! that's the spirit.

btw i was buying records well before i started buying cds, which wasn't even until '89 or '90 (cuz i didn't have anything to play them on). i'm certainly not copping a "been there, done that" attitude.

That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.

Also, Dan Perry OTM.