OMG, People Buy Records? Vinyl In The News Thread

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.

a Dazzle Ships regular

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?

i looked on the 7x7 website and it wasn't up there yet

yeah, just in print so far -- i emailed the reporter to get some copies!

I saw Alan Zweig's "Vinyl" last night - it starts out being kinda what you expect (LOL record nerds), but ends up being a lot more. Worth watching IMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW9NWHvv8fc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3uRA2Bxg0s&feature=related

Vinyl has a "soul" cd just cant replace.

CoolDudeClem 2 months ago

orly? zzzzzzzzzz

never even heard of this place. and it still has buried treasure in it? in brooklyn? seems hard to believe, but what do i know?

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/sked-for-sunday-feb-27-a-beloved-record-store-closes-among-last-in-a-dying-breed/

"This strikes me ambivalently, with three major valences (or vectors). It’s sad, that a long-established, well-liked, family business is closing down. That always strikes me as unfortunate, unlike when a Rite Aid or Starbucks closes.

However, (valence #2), I’m happy for Mr. Long in that he can retire honorably, years after most people do, and know that he accomplished something worthwhile with his business, providing vinyl excellence to a neighborhood for decades.

Lastly, (valence #3, stoic resignation) there’s a grim inevitability about this, as vinyl is an extremely outmoded recording form. First there was vinyl (thanks to Edison I think), then tape cassettes, then CD’s, and now MP3’s, fully interchangable digital recordings. Any teenager these days would figure buying records or tapes is lunacy, because they have nothing to play them on.

So I think we’re hitting the stage in between used record stores and vinyl being seen only in antique stores (which may hit in about a decade), and that’s simply the way it goes, like nobody owns a gramophone these days (that big horn thing over the record player). Mr. Long should feel proud to have done well, in a minor role in the end of an era.
— Dan Stackhouse"

so into comments like these

yeah, echoing Scott, kinda hard to believe there would be some remaining outpost -- especially in BK -- where a vet collector could score 1000 45s for $600 of "stuff he'd never seen before".

also woah, from one of the last of those comments: "despite a resurgance, technics has discontinued the industry standard 1200 turntable for the DJ subsection of the vinyl collector market."

Is this actually true? Old news? I hadn't heard that before. but maybe I did and I forgot.