Why Vinyl Can't Survive

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

So great...it's like when the Pope gave his blessing to The Passion of the Christ. "It is as it was," baby.

2. CDs are teh worst. As in, I have more problems with CDs and their players than I have ever had with any of my vinyl, new or used, or my record players. Obviously, I get why CDs can be truly excellent in certain situations.

3. IPods suck the joy out of music simply because of their awful interface. I can't deal with that shit-- scrolling scrolling scrolling accidentally touch something with the nub of your finger and fuck the song's changed and it's totally jarring. Unless I win one in some contest, I can't see myself ever owning one.

4. Since people relate to music and music-as-object in different ways, any sort of argument here is sort of silly. I like records and mp3s and tapes. You might not. But we might listen to the same things and feel similarly about them. So what is the debate about? Nobody's going to stop buying records, and the plants will keep making them as long as there is some demand. At least in other parts of the world.

shuffle shuffle shuffle all the great shit you put on there on shuffle

(also, playlists)

I love my iPod

but records are the best

also, god punch otm

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