Vinyl is what records are made from, they are LP's, records, albums etc. Do you also collect clear polycarbonate plastic substrate, with a reflective metallic layer, and a clear protective coating of acrylic plastic ie cd's?
Get a scratch on a record, you can fix it, but when your cc’d skips on your favorite song, it becomes useless trash- vinyl is superior by far- it is hardy and stands the test of time.
I view my CDs as a safety copy of my LPs. A go to to listen to the music. CD cases, for the most part, are cheap, highly breakable and have minimized art work. I can’t see them as being collectible any time soon. If they didn’t hold the CD I could see them as “throw away”.
2022 and it's only got larger. Just about every major current artist releases new material on vinyl now. Adele's latest album released at the end of 2021 has sold over 500 thousand copies on vinyl alone already.
Vinyl sucks....sick& tired of vinyl haul show offs..............& audio system obsessives.spending absurd sums of money for minuscule improvements in sound....just enjoy whatever works for you...cassette...cd...download...streaming....etc
I got this for fuck all back in the 80’s and sold it for the price of a house! It’s because i’m better than you!! That’s the vinyl community now full of lucky show off’s!!!!
I collect music media, LPs and CDs mostly but even now its a dying industry. In the peak CDs sold 800 million units in a year. Both don't sell a fraction of what they used to. There still is money to be made selling LPs and CDs but its just a novelty at this point. I just wish all LPs sold with MP3 downloads then I would never buy CDs, thats the only reason I primacy buy them because I can't listen to an LP while going for a walk lol.
7:29 Anyone Who owns and plays their Precious Expensive Vinyl on this Monstrosity, Walk away from No! better still Run, for they know Nothing about Records. These things are the New Amstrad and We all know how bad they were. People are now wising up to just how Bad CD's really are. 16bit Compressed crap just like Wav, Flac and worst of all MP3's. Where Tape and Vinyl DVD's and better still Blu-Ray sail way above In the Quality Stakes. The worst thing Is "Greedy Dealers" Overpricing Records, It hurts even worse when You realize that they got them for Pennies.
I think today is the best time to enjoy music unlike any time in the past. If I’m at home I can play a record, or an open reel tape. On the road I have a cassette, CD, or streaming. As good as vinyl records and open reel tape is as a medium it’s impracticable when driving. I also like using digital as a way to see what physical music I would like to buy.
Sorry, for 'maniac' collectors of music from the 1910s to 1940s who want to have it all, they have no choice but to go for CDs as the reissue companies for these eras of music put almost all of their releases in the CD format, which can store much more music. It would be physically and financially impossible for the collector (unless perhaps if they were multi-millionaires/billionaires) to track down and buy the original records and discs of such music. Most (80% and up) of the music have not been reissued on vinyl in the past half century or even been reissued at all since their original pressings.
Vinyl just engages all of your senses more so than any other format (unless you include attending a live concert as a format lol). Vinyl offers more physical interaction, more visual interaction, frankly more smells, etc. than any other format. Somewhere along the line the industry tricked people into giving up using some of their sense to take in music. Really is no different than someone making you believe that it will be better for your relationship if you touched, smelled, and physically interacted with you partner LESS!!! Most of us know when you LOVE your partner your love and connection goes deeper when you touch, smell, see, and physically interact with the MORE! ....Well music and I have been in a deep Love for DECADES now!!
The coolest part of all this is that you can fit all those wonderful records on a single hard drive. And you can access them instantly and they never wear out. You can even back them all up in case of a fire, theft, or other disaster. Anyway, I'm off to my bloodletting appointment to treat my sore throat. I can't get into to those fancy new therapies. I like the way they did it in the old days.
Abigail Sockeye - That's a casual music fan's take. For all the convenience, no commercially available digital format has the resolution or sound quality of good vinyl played back on a good turntable. I can tell the difference from upstairs in my house if my son puts on some digital version of music I have on vinyl, the difference isn't subtle. That's ignoring, as well, just how negatively the trend towards slamming the levels/compression on digital-format-Mastered formats affects the final product for digital format music (partly due to the hard-limited resolution of db-"stepping" inherent in 16, as well as 24, bit encoding formats). Often, even the same album is mastered with better dynamics for Vinyl than CD, MP3, and even SACD. Once you hear the difference, it's hard to tolerate the pumping/ducking dynamic of Brickwall Limiting/Compression on CD's and other digital formats. I listen to digital formats on the go, but when I'm at home, it's Vinyl all the way, sounds SOOOO much better.
There's a lot more to it than that. Vinyl has a superior frequency range (twice that of 16 Bit Redbook Audio, which is hard-limited through frequency filters - which induce distortion even before signal conversion - and digital encoding), far superior transient response, as well as bigger, better cover art, and that's before we get to the issue of digital licensing, etc..
That and for me it's also the little bit of extra personal effort and care that goes into listening to music on a record. From making your selection and carefully sliding the vinyl record out of it's sleeve and placing it on the platter to gently easing down the tone arm onto the first track. It just makes you feel more personally involved with the process of listening to music to a much more satisfying degree than say picking out a CD or even a tape and hitting play. Certainly A LOT more involved than just clicking on a digital track. I also love the encouragement the environment provides to actually sit down or lay back and really take the time to simply take in and enjoy the music as it plays from track to track, savoring each individual song, enjoying the journey of an album from the first track to the last, with no concern for skipping songs or looping a track because it's your absolute favorite track of an album.
I feel like a lot of people who buy records nowadays (including myself) listen to alternative/Pop-Punk/hardcore music. A lot of pop artists don't release Vinyl. pop/punk and the alternative scene every album has a vinyl and multiple versions at that. Also though I advocate for music streaming cause I can find new bands that I wouldn't listen to, and then go buy that album on vinyl.
For me: Records for pressings that were done prior to digital. So rewarding. Digital for pretty much anything after. Shoot, I actually just coverted my own bands 1994 profesional demo 2 channel mix down from DAT (digital tape) to FLAC. The original 8-track reel to real mixes are gone. At least the original mix was from tape!!
I have a Love\Hate...mostly hate relationship with CDs|DVDs! The sound is good, the size is fantastic and you can load them up with material. THE major problem is they scratch too easily! "Skips" or pixilated images drive me up the wall! Flipping the record to listen to the other side? No problem.
David Castle thanks David! Glad you enjoyed the film. It was a so fun to make it and learn about the wonderful world of record collecting! I've accumulated around 50+ records since the project!
FierceKoolAid didn't have a choice. This was a uni project and that was the only thing we had with a day to go. If you're willing to pay for some stock footage I'll be more than happy to re-edit the opening scene for you and everyone. 👍
