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Who has the time to listen to music on [Vinyl] anymore?
Descendant X
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I figured since I've started to collect vinyl, I may as well share the misery with the rest of you and see if we can't start a little group of like-minded music nerds here on the forum.
For the uninitiated, this is a vinyl record:
They're pretty big. Your parents (if you're old enough) may have had a stack of them when you were a kid, and if your parents were anything like my parents most of the albums they had sucked because their collection was made up mostly of shitty Christian music.
Vinyl went away for a while because people disliked having to carry around massive turntables that skipped whenever you bumped them while they were walking around. Add an amplifier to the mix and it became obvious that vinyl is not meant for portability, as even the most advanced portable record players required a large backpack to carry around and weighed upwards of 75 pounds due to all of the anti-skip technology. This resulted in the general public moving to the convenience of cassette tapes, which could be enjoyed through a personal cassette player that clipped fashionably to your belt.
Survivalists looking for a way to listen to music that did not require electricity were the biggest drive for the revival of vinyl. The oldest turntables can be cranked by hand, meaning that even the most cultured survivalist will be able to listen to Beethoven on an old-fashioned hand-cranked Victrola. As usual, the mainstream trend followed that of the survivalists, although the rest of us have bought turntables that plug in to the wall because none of us have arms powerful enough to hand-crank a Victrola, especially through the long nights of a nuclear winter.
I've got a small collection right now. Here it is.
So what about it, SE++? Are you boring enough to join me on my quest to collect albums on a dead medium?
For the uninitiated, this is a vinyl record:
They're pretty big. Your parents (if you're old enough) may have had a stack of them when you were a kid, and if your parents were anything like my parents most of the albums they had sucked because their collection was made up mostly of shitty Christian music.
Vinyl went away for a while because people disliked having to carry around massive turntables that skipped whenever you bumped them while they were walking around. Add an amplifier to the mix and it became obvious that vinyl is not meant for portability, as even the most advanced portable record players required a large backpack to carry around and weighed upwards of 75 pounds due to all of the anti-skip technology. This resulted in the general public moving to the convenience of cassette tapes, which could be enjoyed through a personal cassette player that clipped fashionably to your belt.
Survivalists looking for a way to listen to music that did not require electricity were the biggest drive for the revival of vinyl. The oldest turntables can be cranked by hand, meaning that even the most cultured survivalist will be able to listen to Beethoven on an old-fashioned hand-cranked Victrola. As usual, the mainstream trend followed that of the survivalists, although the rest of us have bought turntables that plug in to the wall because none of us have arms powerful enough to hand-crank a Victrola, especially through the long nights of a nuclear winter.
I've got a small collection right now. Here it is.
So what about it, SE++? Are you boring enough to join me on my quest to collect albums on a dead medium?
Garry: I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!
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I’ve got a pretty good shop nearly that will order in anything they can find and often gets in music that you won’t find anywhere else without a special order. It’s a two minute walk from my office, which is pretty great.
I have a new turntable and some... okay speakers
I have to get used to playing music out loud, I'm always too worried about bothering my neighbors
Is my favorite bands first two eps on vinyl.
I'm going to take a controversial stance and say that there's no "best" way to listen to music. There's only a person's preferred format. Vinyl has a very distinct sound, cassettes have a distinct sound, digital files have a distinct sound, live music has a distinct sound, it's all about what you want. Vinyl has that great warm and "natural" sound with some fun little quirks and blemishes from being a super analog medium. Digital files can have a super clean sound, great vocal and instrument separation, and higher dynamic range than vinyl, and I can carry around tens of thousands of songs on an SD card in my phone, so that's a big factor as well.
I probably have around a hundred vinyl records right now? I should really catalog them. A big portion of my collection is Depeche Mode singles, studio albums, and a remixes box set. I've also got a decent amount of newer indie stuff, St. Vincent, Father John Misty, Modest Mouse, etc.
My favorite piece has to be the Batman TAS theme song on a bat-shaped record.
My girlfriend and I have a pretty small collection/have most of them hanging on a wall.
I love listening to vinyls but I love the aspect of collecting my favorite band's artwork almost as much
That wouldn't happen to be the Tell 'Em Steve-Dave vinyl cast, would it?
I managed to avoid listening to the new Daughters album before I bought it, but I did have a number of recommendations that made the purchase a good one.
Nuh uh, Hello Internet
I'm blessed to have 3 great stores less than 30 minutes from me
I'll put together some pics of my collection at some point. I made a nice record shelf that almost immediately became almost full. I love 80s punk vinyl and early 60s pop
Edit: real quick though
I kinda wanna take a stab at fixing mine myself (it's started running a little slow) but my girlfriend is deathly afraid of me breaking it.
We are big pink floyd fans!
y'all. y'all.
I've never needed an album more in my whole life
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
If you're on the budget-conscious side, see if there's a used record store in your area. My local shop always has an old turntable in good working condition for sale. And check Kijiji or Craigslist for an old amp with a Phono input. That's how I ended up with my setup, and it only cost me about $100.
On the collecting side, I've got records from Zeal & Ardor, Thou, and Anaal Nathrakh on order and nothing in my budget to pay for them.
Anyone need a second-hand kidney? It's 54 years old and has only had two owners. I'll entertain serious offers only. I'd sell you one of my other two but they're in extremely poor condition and I'd only consider parting them out for free.
After Xmas has been paid for I should really look at budgeting a setup. Thanks for the info!
You sure
100% sure
I love TMNT but there are no absolute jams like this
on the TMNT soundtrack
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Yes it is
These kids and their not knowing where epic sax guy came from firsthand...
I have no idea and I an NOT googling "epic sax guy".
Same here. Right after seeing the movie I went online to look and was disappointed it wasn't available that way as it seems tailor-made for it.
and it's always interesting to me that it's still the highest quality version of any track
Again, that's not always explicitly true.
Vinyl has quirks and digital has quirks.
https://www.vox.com/2014/4/19/5626058/vinyls-great-but-its-not-better-than-cds
Not even close. The signal/noise ratio of vinyl records isn't even CLOSE to what you get from a cassette tape, never mind a CD.
EDIT: Also, while we're here - https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml
Live music is nice and all but there's a lot to be said for mixing and post-processing effects.