100 Reasons why vinyl is the superior format.

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87. Gatefold designs often open up to reveal scantily clad women.

maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

86. They are made of a polymer, and polymers are awesome.

Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

(from a chemical perspective)

Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

85. You can frame them

Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link

sorry, but i was being sarcastic

keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link

39. They don't sell it in good record shops, e.g. Borders.

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link

polymers are a bunch of bastards (from a chemical perspective).

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link

84. You can make sound come out without it being plugged in.

anode (anode), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago) link

89. Some of it (old 78s, for instance) is unplayable by the normal person.

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

best reason: cheap vinyl (and 'good' recs on LP)=> very cheap

cheap CDs => not as cheap.

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

80. That guy who can tell what classical music is on a record just by looking at it. (tried to find a link, but stangely difficult to google)

Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago) link

83. Records smell nice. CDs have no smell at all.

maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

82. Kids are amazed by it

Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

47. It can be used to distract social misfits.

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link

Err.. that should've been, uh.. 79, I guess. *waves fist*

maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link

Maypang!

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

How awful.

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

78. You can listen to both sides

Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

78. You can play them backwards to hear Satan.

Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

Polymers are better than corny indie "silicon" f*xx.

Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

(from a chemical perspective)

Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

12. It's hard to send through the post.

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

Eyeball you're a funny guy.

Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link

12. It's hard to send through the post.

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!!!

Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago) link

vinyl

Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago) link

75. They know no such thing as disc-rot.

Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link

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

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

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link

74, The Bass!!! The Bass!!!

scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago) link

Listen to tower of dub by the orb on vinyl and then listen on cd. Hah! the bass is the thing.

scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

100. The absence of vinyl walkmans.

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

73. They can include gadgets like grooves inbetween grooves and can be without end.

Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

45. The fact that you can't hear the bass so well.

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago) link

70. The way you have to walk around all carefully near the record player to avoid skips.

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.

Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

71. When the needle is stuck in the groove you'll usually get a cool loop insted of cd's bababababababadadadadadadadadakakakakakakaka...

Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

72. 101 Strings Play The Sounds of Love

maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

But try sending it...

It was just in an envolope lined with bubble wrap

Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link

69. The Star Wars record.

Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link

You can play them backwards!!! last record i bought that you could play backwards was side 3 of rings around the world by SFA.

scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link

90. Same size as laserdiscs, without the boring film.

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

66. You can use them as a rain shield.

Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

The cover of the For Whom The Bell Tolls soundtrack-with ingrid bergman crying-is the most beautiful album cover ever and it would just look shitty on a cd.

scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

*mathematical angst*

Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

65. You can't download it.

maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

Maypang!

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

64. You can't upload it (actually, you can)

Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

You can melt two records in the oven and make one record that is half AC/DC and half Dolly Parton!! And play it!

scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

Fucking genius from Scott there, but he didn't put a number so it doesn't count.

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link

62. When they get wobbley you can iron them to save one side.

Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

22. No joke: the end of Brighton Rock.

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

60. You can cut them at home.

Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

23. album covers are the perfect weed tray

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

The Porcupine Captain With A Crew of White Rabbits (Viceroy), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link

23. album covers are the perfect weed tray

so true

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

the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link

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

naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, 21 October 2010 08:48 (thirteen years ago) link

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

naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, 21 October 2010 08:49 (thirteen years ago) link

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

naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, 21 October 2010 08:53 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

The Porcupine Captain With A Crew of White Rabbits (Viceroy), Thursday, 21 October 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link

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

only ad hominem strawman can troll me (Edward III), Thursday, 21 October 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link

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!

Remember the Dayne! (u s steel), Thursday, 21 October 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link

^^^^^

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

sonofstan, Thursday, 21 October 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link

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

very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

rothko's chapel and waffles (omar little), Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link

$15 total i mean.

rothko's chapel and waffles (omar little), Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link

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

the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

tylerw, Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link

and that is some serious value right there.

tylerw, Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link

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

very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link

21. big cover art

jumpskins, Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link

(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.

tylerw, Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link

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

rothko's chapel and waffles (omar little), Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link

i'm determined to find out.

Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link

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.....

Michael Train, Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link

19. you can clean dirty records and they sound better

very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link

18. house music

erschloraque, Thursday, 21 October 2010 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link

why house music?

Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 21 October 2010 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

Daniel, Esq., Friday, 22 October 2010 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link

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

original bgm, Friday, 22 October 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

Bobby Short, Wayne Shorter (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 October 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link

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

S Beez Wit the Remedy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 October 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 23 October 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 24 October 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link

17. a big vinyl collection impresses people

The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Sunday, 24 October 2010 08:56 (thirteen years ago) link

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

jumpskins, Sunday, 24 October 2010 09:41 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

akm, Sunday, 24 October 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link


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