It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
Agreed. I'm not dissing people who buy vinyl now, but the reason I keep a cheap player is back in the 90s I bought a load of old cheap used vinyl, and it still sounds fine.
I don't claim one is better than the other, for new stuff I buy CDs because they're convenient but the existing old vinyl is playable enough.
Over time, prices have gone up in a lot of charity shops while taking very little account of the condition or collector value of the record, or the quality of what's on it. At the same time, the quality of what's available seems to have gone down. You occasionally find shops where it's still "50p for the big ones, 25p for the little ones", but they're few and far between.
There's nothing more depressing than wading through a couple of hundred records in a charity shop to find that they're all Mantovani, James Last and Harry Secombe, with not so much as a Carpenters LP to make it edgy and shit.
CD is where the bargains are now.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
To to be fair, all the others in the vicinity are awful as described. And seemingly frequented by someone in particular who was a) generous, and b) really quite dangerously obsessed with Shirley Bassey.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
So even though I do most of my listening on a smartphone I still tend to listen to whole albums from start to finish. Sure, I carry several hundred albums around on an SD card the size of my thumbnail now instead of having one album on a CD walkman all day, but I always thought the shuffle thing was a bad idea for so much of the music I like that I always avoided it.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
I spend a lot of time scouring Discogs etc for older vinyl that I "missed" first time around but for new material, it's streaming all the way, for me.