Comments on: Why Vinyl?

By: kat

kat — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:53:50 +0000

p.s.: i can’t find the actual tshirt, but the American Analog Set one that i have looks similar to this (i’ll wear it tomorrow so you can see): http://cgi.ebay.com/MP3-Player-Vinyl-12-Audio-T-Shirt-2XL-Musician-DJ_W0QQitemZ360083883477QQcmdZViewItem

By: kat

kat — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:46:14 +0000

@robb: two tons of vinyl…wow!! that’s intense

i totally agree that vinyl will outlive CDs! i love the ritual of listening to vinyl. like Dad said, there’s a room for it (and likely you’ve taken care to ‘set up’ the room so it has the ideal conditions, mood and atmosphere for a ‘listening station’), and it’s active. it’s like the difference between an activity like reading (active) and watching tv (passive). you are actually part of the activity instead of this 21st century bullshit of multitasking.

yeah sure, sometimes it’s a pain to have to get up after six songs to switch the side, but it re-injects some action into the activity again. the days before the mp3 came along were all about the experience of listening to an album the way it was intended to be heard and less about the ‘single’ or the mixtape.

oh, and i love buying 7 inches!! i love the artwork or when the record itself is a different colour. i remember back in the day buying a record and then just sitting around listening to it with the liner notes (on a huge sleeve back in the day, not an illegible booklet like nowadays) and memorizing lyrics

By: Robb

Robb — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:39:10 +0000

Vinyl WILL kill the CD. They are already being produced in much smaller numbers. In Europe Vinyl sales have been steadily increasing in recent years, despite the proclamation 5yrs ago that vinyl was dead. The killer combo of vinyl & MP3 is the best of both worlds without a doubt.

I have over 2 tonnes of records, and will never let them go, they are all a part of me and how I got to where I am.

Viva Vinyl!!

By: Dad

Dad — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:34:25 +0000

MP3′s make the music sound really clear and clean. It really was an event when you were listening to vinyl.You had to go into the room where you kept the equipment that was required to listen to music,(keep my IPOD in my pocket) take the time to flip through your album collection until you found what you were looking for, and then the whole ritual of putting it on the platter and queuing it up. After all that effort it became a commitment. I really want to listen to this. I will sit in the room with the album jacket in hand and take out the insert with the Band’s bio, all the recording info and more often than not the track listing with lyrics included! I was actually listening to the music, it wasn’t just background noise. I knew the track names and most of the words. MP3′s have taken a lot of that away. As I sit here at the computer I am listening to Jamie Cullum on my IPOD(headphones included). I don’t know the name of the track nor most of the words. It really does sound crisp clear clean.

By: zdeiv

zdeiv — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:17:53 +0000

i read an article a while back about the shelf life of audio formats. . .
vinyl is the closest to indestructible. it actually lasts.

“Vinyl doesn’t oxidize to any measurable extent. It is suggested that vinyl records will have a life span comparable to fine parchment paper if cared for properly. Somewhere in the 100s to 1,000s of years.

Various authorities suggest that, depending on the care taken during the manufacturing process, CDs will last between 20 and 100 years… perhaps longer.”

By: musicobsession

musicobsession — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:48:16 +0000

I agree vinyl plus mp3 for portability are soul mates.

By: Rob Lambert

Rob Lambert — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:20:07 +0000

Great post, Matt. I 100% agree. I love the “experience”. And the vinyl+MP3 is the perfect “best of both worlds” – I hope that more and more labels/artists offer this option.

Just getting rolling on my vinyl record site: http://wax.fm Would love to get any feedback and suggestions for the site!

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