OMG, People Buy Records? Vinyl In The News Thread

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.

i'm thinking this might actually be of use? instead of me checking all the sites before i buy. and how does it know rarity?

http://www.cratekings.com/icrates-iphone-app-the-perfect-digging-companion

also, u can turn yourself or a loved one into a record when they die. might have to change my plan to either be shot into space or turned into a precious jewel

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-08/27/and-vinyly

turned into a record and the record is shot into space

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

apparently true, wow. had not heard that.

http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/10/29/industry-standard-turntable-technics-sl-1200-discontinued-by-panasonic

yeah im sure someone posted abt that on ilm? or maybe i saw it somewhere else. anyway, v sad news.

don't think this one got posted

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2011-02-25-vinyl25_ST_N.htm

it's the never ending story of the decade!

According to recent Nielsen SoundScan numbers, vinyl was the fastest-growing musical format in 2010, with 2.8 million units sold, the format's best year since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.

now this is actually newsworthy in my opinion. that whole article was just like every other one, but a little better researched.

even more!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/03/02/134204727/slow-and-steady-vinyl-survives?sc=fb&cc=fp

it's an epidemic...

http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/arts_culture/view/20110322young_people_with_old_souls_prefer_records_to_cds/srvc=home&position=recent

THEY HAVE OLD DUSTY CRACKLY SOULS!

that was the hardest article to read and not vom everywhere.

"Before I had the vinyls": sounds like he has the gout or something.

omg, why was it 2 pages?

http://www.news-leader.com/article/20110322/NEWS01/103220346/1007/Man-accused-stabbing-record-shop-employee

http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2011/03/29/6369090-why-you-shouldnt-plan-on-working-at-a-record-store-or-newspaper

When was the last time you were in a record store? Yeah, we can’t remember either (maybe it was December, but that was to buy concert tickets).

Market research firm IBISWorld.com analyzed its database of 700 industries and came up with 10 that, if not dead, are circling the drain.

They are, in order of most revenue earned in 2010 to least:

1. Wired communications carriers
2. Mills
3. Newspaper publishing
4. Apparel manufacturing
5. DVD, game and video rents
6. Manufactured home dealers
7. Video postproduction services
8. Record stores
9. Photofinishing
10. Formal wear and costume rental

While some aren’t surprising (Hello Blockbuster! How are those late fees treating you?), it does give an interesting glance into where we may be as a country. Are we slobs that never dress up anymore? And given the housing market, you’d think a mobile home might be an attractive option due to its affordability.

Which one of these do you still patronize?

So get out there and buy some records, rent a gorilla suit, take some barley down to the stone mill...

Surely the power of water ans steam and the cuteness of old mills could be harnessed to press records?

OMG think you're on to something. To hell with lathe cuts!

So much wrong in here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/music/news/article.cfm?c_id=264&objectid=10717712 Music is dead btw

that made so little sense i'm not sure i even read it

What a weird and unreadable style that's written in.

Wow, NZ news is all about the 'vinyl is back' at the moment:http://www.rotoruadailypost.co.nz/have-your-say/news/nostalgia-trip-to-the-days-of-vinyl/3947756/

haha the comments on that NZ Herald article are merciless

A Mamaku man says vinyl records are still worth buying - they have a better sound and bring back nostalgia.

Craig Roberts bought three records at the Rotorua Record Fair at Ngongotaha Hall yesterday.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgbj6dMOzl1qf8yek.gif

r.i.p.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-sad-portraits-of-closed-record-stores

except for tower and virgin kinda.

remember moving to philly in the late 80's and thinking how cool it was that there was the tower on south street and over the years slowly watching it turn into a dark pit to be avoided.

that's for sure! also, let's not forget the awesome 3rd Street Jazz.

spent many an hour in 3rd street. my friend john who worked at 3rd street for years moved near me recently! hadn't seen him in a long time.

i wonder if it's the same John i remember...lived around the corner from me in Fitler Square.

A N Y H O O

http://www.icaboston.org/custom-html/index?item_id=19199001

not only is vinyl in the news, people make ART WITH IT!

fuck a vinyl metaphor.

or maybe not. i don't even know anymore.

fuck a baby boomer though. kill their pony-tailed asses. fucking grill me about records they haven't listened to in 25 years. for hours. idiots. "oh i had all these oh i had as much as you've got in your store even more than that can you still find records who buys them blah blah blah" fuck you old man. yer either on the bus or off the bus. get out!

AIN'T GOT TIME FOR YOUR SAD NOSTALGIA OLD MAN OR YOUR SMIRKY FUCKING INSINUATIONS THAT I'M AN IDIOT FOR SELLING RECORDS OR YOUR CONSTANT NATTERING ABOUT HOW I'M TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER ANYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED EVER I GET IT YOU WERE THERE WOULD YOU PLEASE GO THE FUCK BACK THERE.

government really fucking slipped up by not going after these assholes and shipping them to the big muddy.

hahahha. god skot, how do you think it is for me?? i get "you weren't even born when i saw this band!?!?!!" all the time.

i love it when ss turns into the lex.

ha! good thing i'll never be able to grow a pony tail. zeppelin in '72. tellin' you guys.

http://www.amazon.com/Record-Collecting-Girls-Unleashing-Inner/dp/0547502230/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1303250156&sr=8-1

lolz. womyn'z be buying vinylz too

"In Record Collecting for Girls Courtney Smith takes the mic and explores what music can tell women about men"

um, okay...

girl tip books probably still sell well. what do i know?

need some actual ilx girlz to weigh in here...

omg, not ACTUALLY weigh in, i know the gals are sensitive about their weight! lol!

years ago i told myself i would try to marry the first hardcore female record collector i met. i never really met any. i settled for a music lover who started radio stations in her spare time.

"And who is going to tell you what you can learn from your crush’s music collection? (If he’s an overzealous Smith’s fan, send him packing.)"

cuz he's probably.....gay

i was always looking for a girl who could enhance my record collection, not merely copy it

hmmm, okay, but how do we get the women of ilx to come to this board and then click on this thread? this is a puzzle...

i could change the thread title to something about cats or james franco, i guess.

oh well maybe the two or three laydeez who DO post on ilv will share their thoughts.

i just got home minutes ago from buying some records and I am female, but I'm pretty sure I have nothing to add to the discussion here.

i bought

OST Cat People (Moroder!)
OST Thief (Tangerine Dream!)
Salsa Boricua de Chicago comp (numero group, don't judge)
Best of Michi Sarmiento (soundways, again, where else am I going to get this stuff on vinyl?!)

Spent too much, but hey that's what we women do amirite