I'm really becoming addicted to vinyl. In the past 3 days i've probably spent upwards of $30 bucks on vinvyl records. I'm really comforted by the fact that vinyl is such an artifact. CD's are so souless, they are generic, and nearly ubitquitous. The only difference between my blank CDR and your New Radiohead is that I can't easily press the cool album art onto my CDR and have it look as good. Outside of that the two are basically identical. Sure, my CDR doesn't have radiohead songs on it right now, but it could in a few short minutes. CDs do nothing for me because their is no mystery in their production. An eight year old could make a cd that could sit on a rack at the Virgin Mega-store and look not out of place.
A vinyl LP is another matter all together. I have no idea how vinyl is pressed. I don't know anyone that could press vinyl for me either. Obviously not the same can be said of the cd. Every vinyl album is different. They're not identical because they're not digital, each has their own imperfections.
On Tuesday I bought Marvin Gaye's double LP "Live at the Palladium" I'll listen to it at least twice tomorrow. I almost bought the UK version of Elvis Costello's debut album but it was a bit to much. I love "Alison" enough that I'm sure it will find it's way into my collection before too long. I'm also on a quest to get all the ELO studio albums from the beginning to the early 80s. After that their sound loses relevance to me. Well I've just spent a lot of time writing about vinyl, but the funny thing is that I want to write more. I just love it that much!
Hey Rob, you should start a record store.
Anyways, that's why I don't buy cd's anymore, nor do I get vinyl which is pase'. I'm all about the mp3's baby.
Posted by: JosiahQ at June 20, 2003 12:39 AMOur economy seeks to become completely information driven. MP3's are the harbringer of this change. I yearn for product. Vinyl fulfills this need.
Posted by: matt at June 20, 2003 10:43 AMI yearn for more bloggers, and I yearn for my own restaurant.
I also yearn for the lunch april is making.
Posted by: JosiahQ at June 20, 2003 2:07 PMAlison is an ethereal number. Watching the Detectives is one of the funnest songs ever recorded by a soulful pop nerd. I gander you learned today that bringing up the subject of RH during a phone conversation often results in a broken social scene. You lost me in the gloaming. Our egocentric friends at pfork talked pretty high of the album, mentioning knotwist (was it?) swell. I'll pick it up next time I clean out the couch cushions. Meanwhile, grab me a blooming onion my alabamanian hermano.
Posted by: vincenT at June 20, 2003 11:18 PMIf it wasn't for vinyl, I wouldn't have a copy of "The Name of This Band is Talking Heads," which, for some reason, Sire records has never put out on CD. I plan a vinyl to cd transfer soon...
Posted by: Bill Colrus at June 26, 2003 11:22 AMWTF - Vinyl vs. CD vs MP3s. Is this really a topic of conversation? Look, if a band wanted static from lint dust and the hum of the needle on the vinyl, they'd have a guy in the band with a turn table making that very sound. If your album sounds "souless," I think you need to look a little bit deeper than the medium. I for one don't need to run my music through a distortion box to achieve the listening characteristics that I desire.
The analogy to digital music verse analog debate is a discussion on pre printing press era books verse post printing press era books. Do you think that the hand written version of the bible was a better book b/c some of the words were smudged or mispelled or missing? I'm sure it had more soul.
Listen, do us all a favor and jump back into your 1979 El Camino, pop Fleetwood Mac's Rumors album into the 8-track, drive cross country using only dirt roads, and be sure to keep out of the way of progress.
Posted by: ones and zeros at October 3, 2003 6:39 PMwow, such vehemence over something so subjective hardly seems warranted. you know, just the other day I was thinking how much I love it when people I don't know show up at my (or a friend's) front door, refuse to identify themself, and then start being pejorative at me (or my friend). What makes it perfect is when this person has no actual reason behind his (or her) assertion except a debatable assumption (progress = good.).
Posted by: gosey at October 7, 2003 12:17 PMRebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Posted by: Gartner Elana at December 11, 2003 2:39 AMOf all the words of mice and men, the saddest are `It might have been.
Posted by: Welch Tom at December 21, 2003 3:43 AMi am
Posted by: lars lort at August 14, 2004 6:18 PM this is a sad forum. And that im the first writer in 2004 (its Augustī) confirms. there are so many aspects concerning analog versus digital audio, and the problems about legal rights in distributing free digital audio ( and video ) that arent being adressed in on this site. I would like to share some of my thoughts on some of them.
1# only the rich mucisians, whith recorddeals, loose money by illegal digital distributing.
2# Few computers are designed to reproduce high end audio satisfactory.
3# this site is an example of how uninteresting longrange digital communication can be. to by an album, especialy vinyl, is a treat. Few of the sorry computer freaks have the sound, that some crave to listen to great music.
4 acces is great. high end is king.