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What's Up With Vinyl?
Spinless:
Just about every home now has a computer. And just about all computer speakers will connect to an mp3 player with no hassle. When I had a CD player, I was spending about £20 a week on batteries. That's ridiculous.
I bet that to Zerodrone, our tendencies to prefer vinyl to CDs looks a lot like his bizarre preference for walkman CD players over mp3 players does to us. INSIGHTFUL!
Jackie Blue:
Batteries? You are aware that stereos and CD players can be plugged in, right? And what about rechargable batteries?
I don't own a Walkman. I never find myself wanting to tune out the sounds of the world when I'm out. I like to gather information, not shut myself out from the environment.
Even so, you can't exactly get around the fact that if your Walkman breaks, you don't lose all the CDs you played on it. If your mp3 player gets screwed up, you lose data, not just the device for playing data.
RedLion:
it makes more sense to me just to own a digital copy. It takes up absolutely no physical space, is highly portable on the mp3 player of your choice, and you can keep simply absurd amounts of music on you.
Until the MP3 player breaks, as they all inevitably do, and/or your computer hard drive crashes, destroying your entire amassed music collection, if you don't have hard copies of them. Just having solely MP3s reduces the sense of having something special and meaningful that I get by physically owning an album, being able to look at it.
I also don't see much reason to be buying vinyl versions of newly released albums. It's cool to have records of classic albums, but do we really need a vinyl of In Rainbows?
Jackie Blue:
In retrospect the only thing I really needed to say in this thread is:
You try storing 1000 records in a small apartment in a way that you can easily access all of them, and in a way that you can glance at your collection and instantly recognise any one of them (CDs have spines that are easy to identify).
That's it, really.
Spinless:
Are you in a hurry? Do you really need to find your music *that* quickly if you're just listening to it in the house? Take your time, decide! Besides, it's not hard to browse vinyl if you just organise your collection.
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