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What's Up With Vinyl?
valley_parade:
That's why I have an original and a re-release of London Calling. Original framed, re-release for listening to.
I guess I'll have to check Target next time I'm there. $10 sounds good to me.
Lexington, 125:
--- Quote from: valley_parade on 07 Feb 2008, 07:56 ---That's why I have an original and a re-release of London Calling. Original framed, re-release for listening to.
I guess I'll have to check Target next time I'm there. $10 sounds good to me.
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Yeah I did that for a couple albums as well. The best part is I have a bunch of frames painted, so switching them up changes the look of my wall. One day I'll get around to framing my concert posters as well, but I need those done professionally as some are worth quite a bit. That has proved to be expensive!
muteKi:
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--- Quote from: godinpants on 03 Feb 2008, 19:24 ---How many of you actually own a cd that has become too scratched to play?
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I have CDs that are over a decade old and have been played thousands of times and don't have a scratch on them.
People who scratch their CDs are just lazy or stupid with them.
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Jewel cases are not always very nice. There's one disc I have that's scratched because the case malfunctioned. Incidentally, it's my favorite.
Also, why has the fact that vinyl degrades over time not been mentioned? Or were so many old vinyl records from 1960-1980 just made with subpar materials and equipment in the first place?
At home there are many vinyl records. And I greatly prefer digital remasters of most of them.
Jeneration X:
i would like to my 2 pence worth in on this but i think this article from Fact says it all for me!
--- Quote --- F*ck Yes! Vinyl Matters
One of the first things i did when i stopped living in London a few months ago was buy a record player again. I had given up records largely because of practicability: storage and retrievability, real problems when living in cramped conditions, ceased to be an issue when music was consumed as digital objects accessed via a searchable database.
But this user-friendliness was not without its drawbacks. Everyone knows that the compression of sound upon the mp3 format depends makes for a thinner sound. Yet listening to music via an iPod involves compression in another sense. With an iPod, it is the space in which one experiences music, as well as the space 'in' the sound itself, that is radically attenuated. The term 'i' and 'pod' here are all to accurate: with the iPod, music functions as a means of keeping the world at bay. It is part of an urban defence kit, a means of transforming all territory into 'my' space. Instead of circulating in public space in which social interaction is possible, iPod users move in a solipsistic bubble that rebuffs contacy. The mp3 player cannot be held solely responsible for this trend of course - it began with Walkman - but the iPod has certainly exacerbated it.
Charlie Bertsch has argued that the timing of the introduction of the ipod , in the immediate wake of 2001, was crucial. Its appeal, he argues, was in large part that it transformed, "music into shelter". Economic, as well as political, changes means this has a special attraction in the 00's: with increasing numbers of people commuting, the iPod allowed time spent travelling to and from work to become leisure time.
Yet the easy availability of music anywhere, anytime has inevitably meant that music has become less valued. Researches from Leicester, Surrey and York universities announced last year that listening to music typically involves less emotional commitment than it used to. "In the 19th century" they announced, "music was seen as a highly valued treasure with fundamental and near-mystical powers of human communication. It was experienced within clearly defined contexts, and its value was intrinsically bound up with those contexts"
Returning to vinyl is a way of restoring this sense of context and occasion to music. the sheer fact of having to turn a record over means that it cannot be relegated to background listening in the way that a potentially endless iTunes stream can. The LP becomes a discrete experience again, with a sense of drama dictated by the two sides of the record. Records demand both space and time. Vinyl decompresses the listening experience, making the music a tactile presence in a room rather than just a background noise in your head.
Words: K-punk
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Valrus:
If someone is not invested in the music they listen to, it seems to me that it's a problem with the person, not the medium.
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