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ecib · 4759 days ago · link · · parent · post: Neil Young Angered By 'Sound Of Music Today'

I completely agree with him.

It's the reason I hated the first wave of digital content. The quality was so low, you couldn't miss it.

After a hiatus of a few years, I've started purchasing vinyl again. Not a lot, as (let's be frank) it's one of the least practical ways imaginable to deliver content. But the sound is breathtaking after you're used to mp3s burned at 128kb, or even 256.

Basically, my girlfriend or I will pop into the record store every once in a while now and pick out a nice piece of vinyl to surprise the other one with in the evening. Toss it on while we're unwinding or cooking dinner. It's nice. The music sounds good, and the entire way the experience unfolds is special.

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thenewgreen · 4758 days ago · link ·

A few years ago I started collecting Vinyl too. It's a lot of fun and it's a great thing to do when you travel too. Whenever I'm in a new town (for work) I'll check out their local record shops. It's also fun when you have friends that collect too (or a girlfriend) so you can swap records etc. It is the listening experience at it's apex imo and not as much for the sound quality as for the entire experience; Album art, the tactile experience etc.

My favorite record that I own is Yesterday and Today by the Beatles. It's the famous "Butcher Cover" that was pasted over with the suitcase cover: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday_and_Today I have a pasted over version that is near mint condition. I love the history behind it. That, along with superior sound quality, is something MP3's just don't have to offer.

ecib, bgood79, cgod I know all of you collect, I'm wondering if you have a favorite(s) record for nostalgia's sake?

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ecib · 4758 days ago · link ·

My favorite vinyl is some of the obscure Detroit/Windsor techno and house that I own. Some of it is extremely rare now. Combine that with the nostolgia and quality of the tracks themselves and it pretty much amounts to a collection of work that I will never part with.

Many of my favorites don't even have labels or artist names on the vinyl.

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thenewgreen · 4758 days ago · link ·

Thats cool, it's personal. A friend of mine is a jeweler and she just got married. You would expect that she might have some brand new, big, ornate ring but she didn't. She had an antique, beautiful but simple ring. She likes that it has a history behind it, someone lived a life in that ring. I feel like old vinyl is like that too. Someone got a copy of that beatles record and probably really enjoyed it, it was played while he and his girlfriend made dinner over 40 years ago. That's cool imo.