Why Vinyl Can't Survive

But Ian, what happens when Robert Pollard finally runs out of spending money?

x-post to ian who is making brooklyn sink into the mud with the weight of his fleetwood mac demo bootlegs.

Person #1: "Yay, I just downloaded the entire Trapez catalogue. All that hard work was totally worth it!"

Person #2: "Yay, I just found that elusive Perlon 12” I've been looking for. Now I have every release. All that hard work was totally worth it!"

I dunno about anybody else, but the *feeling* I get from looking at a crate of records in the corner of my bedroom knowing full well the time and money spent searching for some of them is quite a bit more satisfying than looking at my hard drive full of mp3s, awesome though they may be.

Personally I'd think, "Hey nice, now I can spend my time and money on stuff like, say, food. And travel. Etc." would trump said feeling several times over. At least that's how *I* feel!

600 Records = 6 months Club Play. I'm paid to change each song.

26,000 MP3's = 16 years of home listening. Software changes song for free

having said that, i certainly don't look back fondly on the time and money involved. i would be much happier if i had found them all in someone's basement for free. free records are the best. soon followed by records for a quarter, records for fifty cents, records for a dollar, etc.

x-post to ned the un-romantic.

exactly HOW LONG has the death of vinyl been predicted? i still think vinyl production will outlive CD production.

Yay! Er, wait.

the wall of wax (great pics btw) just makes me think about the pointlessness of accumulation & the inevitability of death. at least mp3's are already virtually nothing.

tapes, on the other hand, I just chucked out a huge trash bag full of 'em

easy bro, that's some heavy jive yr layin' down.

there is no wishbone ash in the afterlife.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/RussianRainbowGathering_4Aug2005.jpg/180px-RussianRainbowGathering_4Aug2005.jpg

http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildata.php?itemnr=4795374289

i've never heard it! i still haven't. i'm gonna get him to make me a copy.

M@TT, please keep in mind that cocktails are not smoked

rough diamond - s/t

golden avatar - a change of heart

bell & james - only make believe

vance or towers - s/t (awesome rekkerd! 1975. A&M Records)

karen alexander - voyager (also awesome! elektra. 1978.)

tiger - goin' down laughing

trigger - s/t

john randolph marr - s/t (a nilsson house production. and nilsson fans would certainly dig it.)

susan barlow - s/t

romanelli - connecting flight

queen samantha - the letter

the reggie knighton band - s/t

the max demian band - take it to the max (i would definitely buy this on cd. my copy is kinda crappy.)

http://www.needledoctor.com/s.nl;jsessionid=ac112b791f43d48b52deeb8e4799a189daca6ed5666d.e3eTaxeKbh0Te38Kah8MahqSbx90n6jAmljGr5XDqQLvpAe?it=A&id=7481&sc=2&category=401

http://www.needledoctor.com/s.nl/it.A/id.680/.f?sc=2&category=791

http://www.roksan.co.uk/Radius5Photos/radius5_01_JPG.html

http://stereophile.com/turntables/258/

http://www.needledoctor.com/s.nl/it.A/id.1973/.f?sc=2&category=45

http://www.simonelvins.com/paper_record.html

http://cgi.audioasylum.com/systems/663.html

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue16/lavigneroom.htm

whaaaat

https://thelastfactory.com/vinyl-record-care-preservation/

thanks! it was a tricky google search. looks like this, was defunct for a time and now produced again

https://thelastfactory.com/product/heritage-last-record-preservative-purpose-record-cleaner-kit/

The 30-second treatment affects the vinyl to a depth of about ten molecular layers and becomes part of the groove wall. There are no surface residues for the stylus to pick up. In fact, overuse is harmless.

not sure how legit this is tho

“overuse is harmless” was the name of my rave night in 1997 iirc

PBKR - I got the AT-LP120X with Bluetooth. figured it might be nice to have that so I can use headphones since I sit about 15 feet away. I've heard a lot of good things about that turntable, pretty much everyone says it's a great entry/midlevel one for those who don't want to break the bank

those cleaning products drive me crazy, there are just so fucking many of them. I have the D4+ discwasher system which doesn't do much (just kinda pushes the dirt around), plus one of those brushses that's pretty decent at removing debris. for cleaning the stylus I just do the Magic Eraser thing, though I'm kind of confused, do you just tap the surface or does it actually have to penetrate the surface? (I've seen YT videos showing both)

I use the Magic Eraser on my stylus too; I just drop the needle on the eraser for maybe a second once or twice, and then lift it off. Can't remember where I read about that method, but it seems to work, and a few times I've seen dirt from the stylus left on the Eraser.

I have one of those zerodust gel things from Japan, it’s pretty sweet

this is the best brush I’ve used for picking up dust:

https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/at6012

although I read somewhere last year that AT started to cheap out on materials so the new ones aren’t as good lol :-/

I got the AT-LP120X with Bluetooth.

AT turntables are supposed to be pretty good and totally classic.

https://www.business-live.co.uk/manufacturing/first-vinyl-record-plant-factory-20329690

the last piece of news i expected to be reading today was a new vinyl plant opening in my shithole of a hometown. this is most curious. i was under the assumption that there are very few plants left operating internationally. at any rate, wonderful news

that’s awesome