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

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!

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."