LP sales overtake CDs

[Bill Walker]

 

[BimboBob]

Unfortnately, vinyl and CD are now both irrelevent formats in terms of measuring chart success.

Quantities of vinyl being pressed are so limited the price of a new album is pushing £20+ which means it's a no from me.

Shame but that's the way it is...

Who the fuck cares about chart success? Good for bands and exposure but not my first port of call for new music. In fact I can't remember the last time I did look at the chart. probably in the 80's.

All forms of music are good, I like it now. I can listen to something I've never heard of at the touch of a button and then either buy it from Amazon, Discogs, record shop wherever on vinyl. The Amazon route gives you the download code, though I've noticed a lot of bands are veering away from this now, so you can have digital and physical for the same price.

As @twosips has said, there's nothing finer than slapping on a record and actually listening to it in it's entirety. Most of the time with the radio/ streaming it's background music.

 

[malkie]

As @twosips has said, there's nothing finer than slapping on a record and actually listening to it in it's entirety. Most of the time with the radio/ streaming it's background music.


Agree with this 100%. Too many people hear music rather than listen to it.
For me, it's vinyl despite have some serious headphones and a high end DAC player.
I love the warmth of the sound from vinyl, sometimes digital music can be too clinical for me.

 

[twosips]

As @twosips has said, there's nothing finer than slapping on a record and actually listening to it in it's entirety. Most of the time with the radio/ streaming it's background music.


Agree with this 100%. Too many people hear music rather than listen to it.
For me, it's vinyl despite have some serious headphones and a high end DAC player.
I love the warmth of the sound from vinyl, sometimes digital music can be too clinical for me.

Great line. One of my favourite bands released a new album recently, and i've waited to listen until I could literally sit down in front of my record player. Could have played it over my laptop, or on my phone while walking, but I really, really wanted to wait. Glad I did. So much better absorbing it than putting it on in the background.

 

[baggy]

Who the fuck cares about chart success? Good for bands and exposure but not my first port of call for new music. In fact I can't remember the last time I did look at the chart. probably in the 80's.

All forms of music are good, I like it now. I can listen to something I've never heard of at the touch of a button and then either buy it from Amazon, Discogs, record shop wherever on vinyl. The Amazon route gives you the download code, though I've noticed a lot of bands are veering away from this now, so you can have digital and physical for the same price.

As @twosips has said, there's nothing finer than slapping on a record and actually listening to it in it's entirety. Most of the time with the radio/ streaming it's background music.

Bands/artists who want to be popular maybe?

I'm not dissagreeing with you btw it's just as a format, vinyl is now a very niche and overall unadopted concept. The majority of modern music has been produced and recorded in such a way that it wouldnt neccessarily sound better just because it's been pressed on vinyl... As to your reference of checking the charts, the 80's was indeed the pinnacle of the vinyl format.

For contrast, this is from someone who has in excess of well over 15k records in his collection...

 

[bennyboy]

Spotify will do for me.
Just think of the money saved and if the music is shite you haven't got a dud taking up space.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I'm looking into building a Raspberry Pi media server for my living room, possibly with ceiling mounted speakers (USB sound card and wired through an amp), controlled over WiFi from a phone app or laptop. I've already got some suitable HDD's which I've nabbed from a TIVO box. Just need a NAS chassis and a Pi/sound card. I've already got a suitable amp and speakers, so I recon I could knock something up for around £200.

Trevor, I need this translating into fifties-speak! I only want summat with the footprint of a matchday programme, a wire to plug in, a slot to shove the cd's, a button to rip 'em and then another button to play 'em!

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I agree with Mr Albini on this ..

Hmm, notice that they didn't actually say that CDs aren't better quality, just that that's not why they became popular. Which is true. Also playing him a no doubt badly ripped mp3 on an iPod with the standard Apple earphones and he's surprised it sounds shit? That's not the format's fault, it's the hardware. Plug those headphones into a £10k hifi playing vinyl and it'll still sound shite.

It would actually be a more valid criticism of the quality of modern streaming sites. People nowadays usually stream heavily compressed songs and quite often listen over Bluetooth, which isn't really designed for music. But most people value convenience over quality. It always makes me laugh when Youtubers make videos in 4K or even 8K for people to watch on their tiny phone screen.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

All new cars have to have tyre pressure dodahs by law.

I bet that's some fuckin' apparatchik in Brussels - or is it that Mercs, Porsches, BMWs, Audis and VWs have 'em so the rest of us have to have 'em!

 

[BimboBob]

Bands/artists who want to be popular maybe?

I'm not dissagreeing with you btw it's just as a format, vinyl is now a very niche and overall unadopted concept. The majority of modern music has been produced and recorded in such a way that it wouldnt neccessarily sound better just because it's been pressed on vinyl... As to your reference of checking the charts, the 80's was indeed the pinnacle of the vinyl format.

For contrast, this is from someone who has in excess of well over 15k records in his collection...

Want to sell any? :)