Posted on 10/24/2021 5:01:40 PM PDT by DoodleBob
I have a two inch quad videotape in a storage unit.
A bit different in format I know.
Makes sense. CD really is just digital. Vinyl is analog. If people are willing to go with digital they’ll go with online sources. If they want analog, it is going to be Vinyl. I believe cassette and 8 track are dead and gone.
Yeah, I figured that was how you did it.
I found vinyl LPs and their covers and sleeves to be sufficiently forgiving when it came to the low grade neglect to which I subjected them.
CDs punished me for the same level of neglect.
I’m joking.
That said, for my youth nothing beat these guys...
I used to buy these by the metric ton, and my first album play was to make a tape of the album, and put the album away...until the tape deck ate the tape.
I also have hours of radio recordings - some Dr. Demento, especially the Funny Five - that is chiefly a reflection of my poor/cheap youth; I'd call WMMR or WYSP in Philadelphia, request a song I couldn't afford to buy, and keep the boom box on record until I snagged my song.
As I wrote recently, in the interest of promoting commerce AND good music, I'd recommend you skip on over to Bandcamp. It is a very innovative and DIY platform whereby musicians and labels can release content directly to the world. It has a search and listen function where you can decide ahead of time if you like it, and purchasing is very simple.
It's digital, but many of the artists have vinyl. I have no ownership interest in this platform nor to I derive any money from promoting it...other than I want music to grow and thrive, and not die under the weight of vapid new pop and lethargic old people. Good luck.
“Rainy Day, Dream Away.”
Sounds like we were in the same era. I recall the good vinyl...then came the Columbia Record Club, twelve records for a dollar and the much lower quality presses.
Who you callin’ “lethargic old people”?
:-)
If you cant tell the difference by feel or one look, then stick to paying for cd's. Because you'll get ripped off buying " vinyl" thats the cheaper poly sooner or later, and polystyrene doesn't sound as good as vinyl or last as long.
I’ve got lots of vinyl records. Now I need a record player that I can stack 5 or 6 records on to play them as used to be made.
I have to stop what I am doing every 15-20 minutes to change records.
I have some vinyl.
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Direct to Disc
Can get it for a song,and man oh man ....
I routinely go out to hear live music. It's my thing. I hear about three to five unsigned acts each night. Most of them are meh...one of them will be worth a CD purchase.
But then...you get that one band that renews your faith in youth and hope in new music. I buy a shirt and CD. It's capitalism, not Spotify, erm, socialism, erm..whatever.
I was exposed to a few really cool bands I'd never had known about as a kid, because I had friends who turned me on to the Dead Kennedys etc. That spirit, is largely dead.
I don't want to die with it.
My wife’s grandfather was an Edison salesman in Ada Oklahoma back in the early 1900s.
My wife’s niece has the player and many of the flat thick records from that time, including many politically incorrect Vaudville act recordings.
I wish I could find the words to one of the records “CAN WE CARRY OUR RAZORS IN THIS WAR?” along with some hillbilly comic recordings.
I tried playing some of those on a modern 78 rpm record player but the needle sizes were very different, so they would not play.
One of the first 8 tracks I bought back in 1970! Now got it on CD. I still play it.
They changed to polystyrene instead of vinyl.
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Some 45s were polystyrene but you’d probably have a hard time finding a polystyrene LP.
It would be nice if shellac came back. I have over 1,000 78 rpm discs and about as many 45’s.
I bought lots of vinyl back in the 1960s, mostly movie themes, some Marty Robbins. I still have lots of classical and Bob Wills records. I take very good care of them!
A friend of mine invited me to go back into the hills of the Ozarks where a friend of his lived.
When we got there I noticed a pile of 33 1/3 RPM records on his coffee table, all scratched up and covered with dust. No jackets.
He says to my friend..’I just bought a new record! here! Let me play it for you!”
He took the record on the player off and threw it across the others. I wanted to scream when I saw it skip across the dirty scratched records he had on his pile.
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