Vinyl records.

[crizack]

Started buying them last month (im 27 so have grown up mainly listening to cassettes and cd's) my god vinyl sounds so much better. Got stiff little fingers 'inflammable material' for £5 from afflecks today. A smart little record shop on the top floor next to the cafe has just opened. Anyway, has anyone got any lp's or singles they no longer need? Anything from punk, rock, metal, 60's and indie..even reggae. If you have, can i take them off your hands for cheap? I'll pick them up, want to get listening to some new music. Whenever i go to charity shops its either Beethoven or bombalarina.

thanks!!

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

It was the biggest rock 'n' roll swindle introducing CD's.
Always been a vinyl man myself. I would get colleagues at work in the late 80's going on with themselves about buying Dire Straights latest CD and wanking over how much better the quality of the product it was over vinyl.
I was never convinced then and still not now. CD's were a shed load cheaper to produce than vinyl but the price to buy them kept increasing.
Finally succumbed to buying a CD player because my daughters were buying CD's and had nowhere to play them and record companies stopped producing vinyl!
Now you get bands (or labels) releasing vinyl and the sad twat fans buy them knowing they are unable to play them!

It's a swindle!

 

[Bill Walker]

For me its a no brainer

I dont want to go back to dusty, scratchy, snap crackle pop LP's thanks

Ive got some remastered CD's (like the Beatles & Yes) and I can hear things I never heard on my old vinyl.

Like George Harrisons 'Long Long Long' finally I can hear it with no crackles

Some of the early (1980's) CD's were rush jobs and were pretty crappy quality though

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

For me its a no brainer

I dont want to go back to dusty, scratchy, snap crackle pop LP's thanks

Ive got some remastered CD's (like the Beatles & Yes) and I can hear things I never heard on my old vinyl.

Like George Harrisons 'Long Long Long' finally I can hear it with no crackles

Some of the early (1980's) CD's were rush jobs and were pretty crappy quality though

They were only dusty because you allowed dust to gather on them. Like I said...... the music industry ''told'' everyone that CD's were great, (and then gave the public no option by refusing to produce vinyl) and the industry claimed that CD's were the future, the real McCoy etc cliché etc.
And the gullible public bought it.

 

[NPBlue]

I really think Vinyl records are crap these days.

Just a minute squi.....Just a minute squi........just a minute squi....

Dust them off, get your needle on, and listen to the dust clouding out the music, then get up again 15 minutes later and repeat.

It's old technology. It had it's day when you had the choice of sterio or mono, when the spot on your record sleeve was red or blue, but music today is so much clearer.

I don't buy the 'warmer' feel for a second.

If you like the crackle and pop of Vinyl, then go ahead, buy it and enjoy the sound, but to me these days it's a bit like saying black and white TV had more 'feel' about it in the the days of 425 lines, before HD.

It's just my take on things, but I'm not sorry to see the demise of cheap plastic records that lasted seconds before they deterioted into a crackly mess.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

The other advantage for vinyl over CD is you can read the lyric sheet!

 

[Bill Walker]

For me its a no brainer

I dont want to go back to dusty, scratchy, snap crackle pop LP's thanks

Ive got some remastered CD's (like the Beatles & Yes) and I can hear things I never heard on my old vinyl.

Like George Harrisons 'Long Long Long' finally I can hear it with no crackles

Some of the early (1980's) CD's were rush jobs and were pretty crappy quality though

They were only dusty because you allowed dust to gather on them. Like I said...... the music industry ''told'' everyone that CD's were great, (and then gave the public no option by refusing to produce vinyl) and the industry claimed that CD's were the future, the real McCoy etc cliché etc.
And the gullible public bought it.

Im not gullible, I know what I prefer

I still have my vinyl, most of its in great condition, I keep it for nostalgia reasons but when I play it it sounds like crap....sorry you vinyl lovers, I guess we don't agree, give me a CD any day of the week.

 

[unicorn]

Got around 4,000 LPs, and sound great if you've got a decent record player and look after them, but I tend to buy new releases on CD as LPs cost nearly double.

Can't believe how many youngsters still buying new LPs in Piccadilly Records.

 

[BlueBearBoots]

I could literally cry - When I moved house about 8 years ago I put my vinyl collection in the skip. I had American imports on 12", picture discs mostly from my punk days, singles, albums.

what an idiot!

 

[Chancy Termites]

Really coming back into fashion at the moment. I got my 17 year old daughter a turntable for Christmas and brought all my old vinyl down from the loft. Since then she's bought several new releases, most recent of which were Jake Bugg and The 1975.

Looking back at my old stuff, vinyl is just too big but that did allow for some excellent artwork.