your vinyl collection

[Pants, the terrible]

depends when you purchased the vinyl. early editions of recordings have mono sound, bad pops that skip through some songs variably, and i generally listen to FLAC albums or albums that use digital compression to their advantage.

the only way you could really point out the difference in sound is by miing each specific point in the equalizer to its highest point, while being backed by a resonance-absorbing sub woofer. the change is so miniscule, that it really doesn't change the enjoyability of an album.

plus i'm not paying 23 fucking dollars for a 12 dollar album at FYE or whatever record store i can buy affordable shit at.

[trent bortknob]

thats good wasting money on novelties is always better when you only buy the most expensive ones

they're not novelties if you have a record player. it's a a great way of owning music: it sounds great (the older bands sound especially better on vinyl than on mp3/cd), it's cool because you get larger artwork, it's a physical product (not a blip on your hard drive) that you actually have to maintain and keep in good repair. it also just has a sort of charm to it

[trent bortknob]

CD's are more convenient and they dont come in shit cardboard casings (for the most part)

records are genuinely pretty gay as hell

CD's aren't really any more convenient, they're pretty pointless. what's the point of even having a CD or a CD player nowadays? media players can hold way more songs than a CD, and you can play those pretty much anywhere, as well as hook them up to speakers, play them in the car, or just listen to the files on your computer. if you're going to listen to digital music, i'm pretty sure you can put FLAC files on some players. no real reason to carry CDs around when you have a good portable media player

and anyway, a lot of times if you buy new vinyl it comes with a free download of the music. then you get the physical product: large artwork, the unique-to-its-format sound quality, as well the mp3. you get to see it, smell it; there is nothing to tell you where you are in the song (aka no timer). it's also more apparent that it is a collected work and not just a bunch of files in a folder. but, you get the convenient aspect of the mp3 shit because we can't take our records everywhere

basically: fuck you pants

[Pants, the terrible]

records: easily damaged. expensive. audio deterioration. you are basically forced to listen to the album in halves.

CD's: easily damaged/repaired. affordable. easily stored (not too bulky). able to be saved on a hard drive. track selection. no "sides" to worry about.

i personally love CD's. they are simple, they have quality that doesn't interfere with the enjoyability of the album. Vinyl just isn't my thing.

so anally penetrate yourself with a salad fork mister borty

[Philip K Dick]

they are novelties because the technology is dated, there is no practical use for them when digital formats can be obtained easily and for free, and they're expensive.

[Gerkinman]

Jeez, kids these days.

[Necronomitr0n]

time to put on your nostalgia goggles kids

[DrRumack]

there isn\\\'t anything wrong with novelty

without novelty we would all be buying cheap white t-shirts instead of ones with cool designs on them

plus half the internet would be useless

[trent bortknob]

this isn't an argument, this is a topic about people who like vinyl posting about what they have because it's interesting. if you want to talk about how much vinyl sucks then do it in some other topic or something

[Pants, the terrible]

vinyl is a novelty that i'm not willing to go back to. srry

[tmk]

then it's good thing no one's trying to sell you one

[Pants, the terrible]

that post is very confusing tmk. what?

[Flash]

hey tmk instead of answering that just remember that pants is a proto-troll and also dumb

btw i don't have a vinyl collection, i have a cd collection because that's the next best thing i guess, started it as a kid and over here there is no such thing as a vinyl that's not over eighty, sometimes even a hundred and fifty bucks

BUT they didn't cost that much back in THE DAY so i have this kickass uncle (10210x times cooler than my dad cuz that's just how it goes) who's got boxes and boxes of zappa, yes, pink floyd, king crimson, mahavishnu orchestra, herbie hancock, yeah basically just prog and jazz shit + some classic rock albums and stuff, it's really cool
he doesn't have a way to play em tho, lmao, only at granny's house, which is kind of a shame.

[rtil]

i collect vinyls for a few reasons: to find tracks from my favorite early 20th century artists that might otherwise be difficult to find on cd/digital format, to have them around because i like antiques, and to have and listen to my own personal recordings of them.

modern vinyls are a novelty, and while some of them are cool, they\\\'re ridiculously expensive.

[Abnormal]

records are especially cool because of the large artwork and their tangibility, but i'll still normally buy cds but that's just a money thing

[trent bortknob]

i have lots of vinyl i could seel your

i've got a lot of old albums that i want to get, so if you have "a night at the opera", "a day at the races", any pink floyd or king crimson or basically any other cool stuff, it'd be cool to check out. i'm probably not going to pay more than $3-$5 for an album though, unless it's really rare or in immaculate condition. you can buy a lot of the ones i want online brand new for $10-$20

[pocketpinecone]

i have the airplane over the sea and the mountain goats

[fatbadger]

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