OMG, People Buy Records? Vinyl In The News Thread

they should just start making cds the size of laserdiscs. that would be awesome.

STEVE INSKEEP, host:

And today's last word in business marks the birthday of a music technology that was supposed to die. Cassettes, compact discs and MP3 players were all supposed to kill it off.

RENEE MONTAGNE, host:

But the LP, the long-playing vinyl record, is still around - making something of a comeback, in fact. Artists are releasing new songs on a format that first debuted 62 years ago today.

INSKEEP: It took years of effort to overcome technical difficulties like grooves that were too wide and poor audio fidelity. But in 1948, Columbia Records finally introduced the microgroove long-play vinyl record, which could play an incredible 22 minutes of music on each side.

MONTAGNE: And according to Wired magazine, the first released was a Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor with Bruno Walter conducting the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York.

And that's the business news on MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. I hear some music coming up there, Steve. I'm Renee Montagne.

INSKEEP: And I'm Steve Inskeep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUG1hXq7GHU

I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE

OK

http://www.cnn.com/2010/IREPORT/08/11/vinyl.irpt/?hpt=C2

"Alice says that vinyl has soul and that its imperfect sound is like 'a performance every time it's played. It's never quite the same twice.'"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/fashion/23Gimlet.html

ha. i met the guy on the left of that photo last time i was in ny

haha! yeah I know him too.

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guy in center with the glasses and beard is my default mental image of the every-ilxor

We should also start a thread that we bump every time a new york writer hedges his/her reporting on a trend with some variation on "By now it's obvious that x is making a comeback/is popular"

see also "It's almost a cliche to point out that..."

I don't see that as hedging so much as apologizing for being late on something that's been done to death

or a politer way of saying "hey don't look at me, someone assigned me this dumb topic"

Or alternatively "Yeah, I know this is lame. I write for the New York Times. They pay my bills. It's not me."

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― dmr, Thursday, September 23, 2010 3:29 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya, met him w/jeremy. have you been to the last few? my bff from hs/college is now the third member

guy in center with the glasses and beard is my default mental image of the every-ilxor

ilxor-looking dudes

have you been to the last few?

nah I haven't made it over there yet since they started back up, baby at home and all

that's what i figured

The novel spin that this story seems to be offering is that record buyers are locavores? I mean, I don't expect much more from the NYT styles section... and at least the writer knew that there was ALSO a Long Island record fair happening at the same time, which, if it was anything like the one I went into Chicago last weekend (and most record fairs I've been too) was probably NOT the set of assorted weirdos that the styles section would ever want to touch. Not much of point here except that this article seems, a la Kids Are Alright, more about strategically expanding what "locavore" means as consumer/style category.

... and that record buying/selling as "style" is just so irritating. Whatever, impotent rage, I know.

ok, so wtf does 'locavore' (which I thought meant you eat local produce) have to do w/ records? or does it now mean shopping locally, so anyone who doesn't go to a chain store a locavore now? are locavores retrosexual? i is confused

i was at the l.i. one, fwiw. picked out six $1 country records. guy said they're seven-for-five, so if i pick out another one it'd only be $5. i was, like, can we make believe I picked out another one? he was, like, ok.

it was pretty same-old, though. shoulda gone to the brooklyn one. my luck i would have wound up in the nytimes though, so just as well.

The guys in the NYT couldn't stay long, they had to get back to their home charcuteries and pick up cupcake making supplies for their gf's microfinanced online bakery.

A minor twist on a theme

disappointed that it wasn't j4mes plumm3r they busted

investors view rarities by The Beatles and Queen as more stable assets than risky market ventures.

lede to new yorker blurb on wfmu record fair:

Justin Timberlake recently told a German newspaper that he prefers vinyl
to digital music, and he is not the only one.

awesome

lol

justin timberlake, you are a bro.

justin timbrolake

While catching up on my European Timberlake news digest, I came across something that would fundamentally change teh way i consumed music

keep an eye on this space in january for an interview/photo-shoot that SF's 7x7 magazine did with ILX regular "69" about his switch from downloading/digital music to records, and about the general merits of the medium...

"well, they're big."

"having a bunch of records at your apartment is sure to get girls."

"i like the way they sound. you know, it's like, realer."

hahaha i actually did say that it was cool that they are big

Sad news: ILXor's Dunedin shop to close http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/134885/music-over-trader

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs583.ash2/150522_822794650897_13600337_45874794_1534544_n.jpg

sexy!

hey i know that guy

R.I.P. Vinyl records?

I love Vinyl. I hope it doesn’t go away… and if it does I hope it does only after I own the next Radiohead record on 180 gram.

Hence4th December 2, 2010 at 6:32 pm Reply

hahaha

nice! what's the record by your head?

nerve city's sleepwalker 12" -- def one of my favorite non-indie underground "punk" bands of the past few years

cool! can we read it somewhere?