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

What are you talking about, you TEMPTER you? :(

I've never had that. Sounds like a bad turntable.

To begin with, I can't see spending money on a decent stereo system right now. Until I move into a house (which may never happen), I don't want to start collecting something like vinyl, something more which needs to be lugged around. (I don't move myself, but having lots of stuff is still really painful when you move around a lot, or it is for me anyway.)

Much of what interests me most probably wouldn't be available on cheap vinyl anywhere near me. I'm not buying used vinyl without looking at it first, either. I'm not interested in bargain-hunting. I don't enjoy the process. I used to spend lots of time in used bookstores (and some time in used record stores), but I don't find that a very attractive way to spend time any more. (If anything, going to flea markets seems like it would be even more tedious, but I guess once you know where to go, it's not so bad.

In my first band, when I was 17, the guitarist couldn't afford an electronic tuner for his guitar, and we couldn't either. He tuned to the E at the start of the Who's I Can See for Miles. Then we all tuned to him (I played bass). Well, after we got a little more sophisticated and got tuners, we realized that we had been tuning half a step up because his turntable was slightly fast. Everyone thought we were all experimental and shit, but we were just morons and victims of turntable variability.

I grew up with a fucking record player, and I've only not had one for maybe 8 years of my life. As it so happens, I'm getting one again (my late grandfather's, along with his hi-fi system), and I'm happy that I am, but I don't see that I enjoyed music any less or was any less able to discuss it when I didn't.

Honestly, during that time I couldn't have afforded something that would have brought out any of the sonic advantages of a record anyhow, and the one time I did experiment with a cheap turntable and speaker set I was so disgusted by the sound that I never used it again. Unless you have fairly good equipment, CDs are going to sound considerably better than records.

As a side note, I hate it when this sort of arbitrary stupidity is called "snobbery" -- it implies that the person being targeted actually does have some kind of superior knowledge or values.

I'm hesiatant to call myself stupid, as I would be, but you're right otherwise. I have no superior anything.

Also, oh shit this record is good. Just bought it. Robert Fripp - Network. It's kind of a single. Four songs. One has Daryl Hall (don't laugh), one has Peter Gabriel (doing a version of "Here Comes The Flood" that I've never heard), and one has David Byrne ("I am am resplendent in divengence"). Never would have found these songs on CD, bra. Not even if they'd been released there.

Vinyl!

Is this ever wrong.

Is this ever wrong.

YES. YES IT IS EVER WRONG. Good vinyl sounds great, better than 192kbps MP3s every day of the week and twice on Tuesday.

-- Paunchy Stratego (fluxion2...), July 18th, 2005.

JESUS LAUGHS

We'd all like to get golder, I guess

I love my Kenan, he has a special place in my heart with his goofy but impossibly hip shirts.

I suggest a record playing slumber party (NO DIRTY MINDS!)

But we have to invite Rickey Wright, too.

Hooray for the vinyl-playing slumber party a la Doris Day!