vinyl (not for the young uns)

[NorthernBoy]

As Daft As It Sounds, I Prefer Listening To Vinyl Because Of The Effort I Have To Put In To Produce The Sound.
Double Clicking The Mouse To A track On The Pc Is Too Easy, Its All About Putting The Record On, Setting The Speed, Dropping The Needle Correctly And Listening To That Sweet Crackle Before The Beat Comes In.
Nout Better.

 

[BimboBob]

Bought one of them USB decks last year,dug out my old records and...


You forget that you remember all the scratches,imperfections etc in your collection and then listen for it when it's played on the radio.Love vinyl.

 

[True_Blue69]

Got shit loads of house vinyl from between 99 and 2007. Remember when I was djing in the early days they didn't even have cd decks, most places don't even have turntables these days. Saying that haven't played a full vinyl set now for about 4 years, reckon my mixing would be all over the place!

 

[buzzer1]

Top thread mate, got some boss albums, Early Talkin'Heads, B52s Singles and Dead Kennedys picture discs, someother good punk as well. When we move house in about 6-8 week i'm gonna get a record player, as you say, you can't wack putting the needle down and that pause before the tune comes on.

My mate got his albums out about 10 years ago when we were having a beer and his kid asked"what are they Dad"? made feel old but good.

 

[kronkonite]

Ive got some awesome stuff

Whicker man sound track for example

 

[chocovla]

Dusted of my old record collection last week after buying an ancient Technics direct drive turntable.Really enjoyed listening to my vintage Buddy Holly records and even managed to get my old AC/DC albums back of an uncle who I borrowed them to years ago.

Even the smell of those old vinyl records brings back the memories. Dust cover jackets, lyrics sheets paah who needs those fancy flac/mp3's :-)

 

[BTH]

As Daft As It Sounds, I Prefer Listening To Vinyl Because Of The Effort I Have To Put In To Produce The Sound.
Double Clicking The Mouse To A track On The Pc Is Too Easy, Its All About Putting The Record On, Setting The Speed, Dropping The Needle Correctly And Listening To That Sweet Crackle Before The Beat Comes In.
Nout Better.

Never got rid off my old turntable: B&O Beogram 3300; if it's good enough for New York's Museum of Modern Art then it's good enough for me! Don't quite agree with the above though in terms of the effort involved.

What I will say though is this: collecting music (and records in particular) is just that: collecting. Not being sexist here, but it does seem to be a male thing: it's part of our hunting-gathering DNA. Not only that but certain records (whether it was buying them or listening to them) are evocative: they take you back to other times and places.

Downloading a load of files onto your computer overnight - an artist's whole back catalogue if you want - just doesn't have the same appeal. Great, you've got the music and great, you can hear the lot on something smaller than a cig packet, but who wants that? it's too easy as far as us martyrs are concerned, never mind the fact that you don't even end up with anything tangible: just a pile of of zeroes and ones in computer files!

 

[goat boy]

Analogue > digital

That's a fact. You don't hear or see 0s and 1s, and all of this digital nonsense that we all spend out lives listening to doesn;t cut the mustard. For all the cleverness of a digital box of tricks, you have to spend WEDGE on something which isn't horribly let down by the little device that turns 0s and 1s into an analogue wave again. Oh an MP3 compression... is evil, it really is. No dynamics. No top end. Not the real thing.

 

[Joycee Banercheck]

Analogue > digital

That's a fact. You don't hear or see 0s and 1s, and all of this digital nonsense that we all spend out lives listening to doesn;t cut the mustard. For all the cleverness of a digital box of tricks, you have to spend WEDGE on something which isn't horribly let down by the little device that turns 0s and 1s into an analogue wave again. Oh an MP3 compression... is evil, it really is. No dynamics. No top end. Not the real thing.

Nowt wrong with digital compression.

 

[jamiegrimble]

Yep got quite a few still,especially from the Punk era.But not got a decent record Player these days,that was put in the attic with the discs.I still got Spiral scratch EP,Capital Radio EP, and a red vinyl Skids "Into the valley".All the packaging was important to us in those days.CD's and Flimsy CD cases were a dreadful marketing move IMO that left the collectable process sterile.It was brilliant to meet up on Friday nights with the guys, with all your vinyl gear and spread it all out for a good perusal,when the CD's came in,the packaging fell apart in your hands.