One of the great things about Vinyl


Is I find myself listening to recordings all the way through.

Rarely do that with CD's and/or streaming.

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Showing 2 responses by tylermunns

Everything about vinyl is fun.

Browsing them, buying them, looking at them, playing them, it's all fun.  

I know some will say the inconveniences outweigh the positives (or at least cancel them out) which I can appreciate.  Of course there will then be technical criticisms of the medium. I can appreciate those as well.

I think all would agree that handling/playing CDs, and scrolling through endless, homogenized letters on a screen has nothing on handling a beautiful sleeve, hearing the sound of the stylus hit the lead-in groove, and watching that handsome turntable, with it's shiny black disc, put a show on for you in your living room. The romance is rich with the latter; non-existent with the former. 

"Fun of use" is no contest.

In regards to those endless, homogenized letters on a screen I scroll through, I find the homogenization of music this way robs the individual works of their individuality.  Miles Davis may sit between Minutemen and Mickey Newbury...scroll, scroll, ho-hum..it's all the same..."files"...

Obviously they are not remotely the same. Furthermore, each individual album in an artist's catalog has its own identity.  These things are diminished in a digital format, and maximized in the vinyl format.

I want to appreciate the uniqueness of artists and their individual works from their catalog.

Music is very special, meaningful and important to me, not just another utilitarian application, appliance, another "app," another bunch of "files." 

 

     

@mijostyn 
“There are bad albums that might have one good song. I will download the one good song and put it in one of my background play lists.”

This👆
A totally sensible way to procure and enjoy music with both formats.