vinyl records

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 Zappa88 wrote:

 BroSpence wrote:

I have a slight preference to vinyl, but I do love my Cds.  

 I prefer my LPs because they are so beautfiul. haha...well they're big and the art work is so nice to look at usually.  The sound of a record has a personal characteristic that all the digital forms are missing.  The sound captures me, it is warm and cozy, I love the cracks and pops that may effect some vinyls more than others, and there's nothing like the anticipation of waiting to get home to listen to a specific album or record that is a favorite or just hasn't quite hit the ears yet.   There's also the wonderful  time that can be spent staring at all the albums in a record store.  I don't want to spend hours online looking at albums on Itunes, I want to spend a whole day at a record store.  I don't really care about carrying my collection with me because I have my car which plays Cds quite nicely, computers and stereos seem to be near by everywhere, or I'm working or in class and shouldn't be worrying about those things. 

With CDs they cleaned everything up.  Everything became crystal clear which is good in some cases, but in others (especially with a bad producer and bad engieer) the sound becomes flat and dull.  The album doesn't come to life.  However, with the good recordings on CD it allows for a very full sound that could easily knock one's ears off.  I'm thinking specifically with drums and bass tracks that are mixed so well they could be in the room or car with you (as could the other instruments, but I tend to listen closely to bass and drums first).   This quality can  be had on  LPs too, but there is still a differenece.  The liner notes became slightly more extensive with CDs than with LPs which I like a lot because I want to know who did what on an album.  I also like to hear stories behind the album (which is why the Rhino releases of the Elvis Costello recording are so awesome.  Costello wrote the notes and they are about 5-6 pages in length).

This Ipod/Itunes age sucks.  

The case with Itunes is that I feel like everything that was so interesting and wonderful about the previous recording medias is gone.  I could pay 5-9 bucks for an album on itunes, where I will have whatever number of recordings on my computer (which I could later burn onto a cheap CD-R) and some .jpeg images, or I could pay between $3-$20 for a new or used  vinyl or CD.  I'll take the vinyl/Cd.    Itunes also bothers me because it tends to promote the downloading of individual songs instead of entire albums, and with this kind of promotion I feel the art of making an album will die (or at least suffer greatly).  The record companies are worried about their business failing because people are illegally downloading albums, but I believe they could help fix the problem by putting out and scouting for artists that are actually good at what they do, instead of putting out another clone of a previous terrible pop star, or new or used. 

I was furious to find that Itunes offers the Starsailor album by Tim Buckley.  Not only is it "out of print", the only copies around cost over $150.  If it is available on Itunes why not rerelease it on CD!

They have that on Itunes?
Holy hell!

Yeah friggin Itunes has that and Rag a Ryggen.

Poll Question: what is your thoughts about vinyl records ?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
I prefer owning vinyl records to CD`s	20	[22.73%]
I like Cd's & vinyl records about the same	40	[45.45%]
vinyl records are in the past and obsolete	28	[31.82%]
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