Posted on 10/24/2021 5:01:40 PM PDT by DoodleBob
People download. Either legit and pay for it, or they torrent.
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Vinyl Is Selling So Well That It’s Getting Hard to Sell Vinyl
10/21/2021 7:55:15 PM PDT · by algore · 30 replies
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Oh nuts...search still works.
My bad.
I had albums i bought on vinyl...then 8trac...then cassette...then CD. Digital is all for me now.
I was being tested for learning difficulties back in the 60’s in Stanley Kaplan’s home office, and he had one of those. He showed it proudly, but me as a nerfy 14 yo could not be impressed. That was before he created nationwide franchises.
I would get some vinyl LPs, but they would require a good pair of speakers to get the most from, while I live in an apartment complex. I can hear the neighbor’s puppy leg bopping on the floor when he scratches his ear. At least I think that’s what it is.
I got rid of tons of vinyl, but I kept my “sacred” albums (first KISS album, rare punk/new wave, etc.) I’m not that much of an audiophile that I claim to be able to tell the difference between cd and record, but I do have a nostalgia for vinyl.
Downloading an mp3 just doesn’t have the same nostalgia factor that buying your first record did (which was David Bowie’s Scary Monsters lp, 1980.)
I went laserdisk and never looked back.
The problem is there is good old vinyl was good. Especially in the sixties. The late seventies had light flimsy discs that often warped and ruined the songs especially the first few outer tracks.
I had that same model when I was much younger. Use to use the “simul-sync” to create guitar tracks. You use to have to set the switches near the tape heads depending on what you were doing. The bottom opened up and the circuit cards were hinged so you can perform calibration if you dare. Forty years later I now have unlimited capabilities and effects on my laptop
I have a very large collection of vinyl LPs of the Beatles, most of which have been on a turntable only one time.
—> Digital is all for me now.
What?????
You’re not upgrading to holographic, then quantum, then 4th dimensional formats??
What kind of consumer are you anyway?
...and to think I tossed my Garrard Linear Tracking turntable.
I adore that machine.
Have 8-tracks come back yet?
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