Prog collectors......

.....,specifically those posting here or at PE,are generally not interested in vinyl.

Please, the focus in this thread is not about the extolling of one media over the other.

(Also, yes, naturally it is an excuse for my putting up a used lp trade list here.)



So then, how many here collect used lps?

Prove me wrong.

Edited by JD - March 31 2024 at 08:01

Not everybody here who collects vinyl posts on the Vinyl thread.

Vinyl - Progressive Rock Music Forum - Page 1 (progarchives.com)

In the booklet that comes with Wendy Carlos’s Switched On Box collection, she makes a compelling argument that, from a physical perspective, it is impossible for vinyl (needle in groove) to produce a better sound than a CD. I absolutely concur.

I buy used (and occasionally new) LP's every month. Probably 7/8ths of my wages (less rent/bills) goes on records.
I would hazard a guess I'm younger than a good percentage of this sites userbase (24 this year) but I've loved vinyl records since I was probably 5 or 6. I remember my dad making a manual record-player with me around then, using a gameboard and a wall plug, and a sewing needle and cone made from folding a piece of A4. How that copy of Tubular Bells still plays after that needle damage I'm not sure.

I bought a lot of house singles as a teen (that I'd now like rid of for the most part), and that cemented my preference of not just playing/collecting records, but the physical 'hunt' for music, as it were, so when I discovered prog as a whole (and not just Oldfield who had been my favourite artist since the womb) it was an immediate switch to buying anything a seller put in the "prog" box - I do vet it more now, since one Boomtown Rat's album ended up in there, and therefore my player (once).
There's thousands upon thousands of fantastic progressive albums, and if I were to listen to music digitally I would end up listening to a new album everytime, rarely re-listening to any which would stop me really understanding the music. Forcing myself into this "box" of what I own means I get a much deeper appreciation for each album, and they all get regular plays. I do still listen to music digitally (usually to/from work) and discover more recent music that way (I don't shop in HMV so new works infrequently appear to me) and occasionally purchase some of the albums from which I have listened to the odd track so I can really enjoy it in the way my brain likes to listen. If I see some prog artist(s) live and they have records on the merch stall I certainly pick that up too.

I guess I don't like CD's and the ilk because they're digital, and it feels sort of pointless to buy a CD when I could burn it, or use a FLAC player, or just have the files on my PC. I don't know, because of course I would get the same ability to physically search for music if it were CD's but when I listened to house, singles were 50p/£1 and the variety of artists that probably never saw a CD release kept me in vinyl (I did have a few albums on CD because Daft Punk LP's were too expensive for me). Now with prog, I suppose it helps that the format is of the right age where the percentage of prog albums out of all LP's I see is much higher than the same for CD's. Vinyl he just been a constant in my life, and to pick up and play the same Tubular Bells LP I've had that whole time, and my dad listened to before I was even born, does just feel special.

Criswell wrote: In the booklet that comes with Wendy Carlos’s Switched On Box collection, she makes a compelling argument that, from a physical perspective, it is impossible for vinyl (needle in groove) to produce a better sound than a CD. I absolutely concur.

Onslow wrote: .....,specifically those posting here or at PE,are generally not interested in vinyl. Please, the focus in this thread is not about the extolling of one media over the other. (Also, yes, naturally it is an excuse for my putting up a used lp trade list here.) So then, how many here collect used lps? Prove me wrong.

I'm not collecting any vinyls, these days I'm mostly only collecting tagless 128/44 mp3's. I've in fact 51 DVD-R's full of them.