Would you go back to buying vinyl .

Vinyl lp sales are booming.

Anyone still have a record player, when was the last time you bought a vinyl record, what was it?




Vinyl LP sales have reached their highest level in a decade, according to the British music industry's trade body.

The BPI said more than half a million LPs had already been sold this year - the first time that threshold has been reached since 2003.

http://news.sky.com/story/1155822/vinyl-lp-sales-highest-in-a-decade-says-bpi

 

Vinyl is the best sound you can get for pop/rock music.

Plus you get the added bonus of the great artwork on the covers and the inner sleeves.

Nothing felt better coming back from town replete with a proper sized poly bag and an album inside.

 

Not since I put ceramic tiles in the kitchen

 

Yeah and you could skin up on them too

I actually still have most of my old vinyl. I had a really good turntable, but it died after fifteen years so I got a new one a couple of years ago. The new one is just not the same.

I occasionally bought the odd record second hand over the past ten years or so, mainly old stuff I had as a kid.. I bought Closer by Joy Division new about seven months ago from Amazon it sounds much better on vinyl. I meant to buy more, but it's really expensive now. When CD's came out the price of vinyl plummeted didn't it.

 

I went into Our Price this morning to buy 'All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Shirt', by Half Man, Half Biscuit.

It's rubbish.

 

For people over a certain age there's an emotional investment in their record collection; there's that touchy feely thing about the size, shape and for the older records, the weight too. Then there's the care to replace it in it's sleeve and the memories that go with it, such as saving up for 45's, Top of the Pops, the charts Top 10/Top 20, plus the excitement of buying your first LP's and taking them home ...blah, blah

Now **** off you sentimental old ****.

 

*****.

 

I found that when I downloaded music that I didn't have to pay for I hardly listened to it. In some cases I still haven't.

Music isn't really the be all and end all of youth culture nowadays in the same way it was in the 60's till say the mid 90's games have taken over.

 

I d/l to my I-Pod and listen on 'shuffle' and delete or upload them to I-Tunes.

When I can be arsed, I occasionally put them into folders, I've now got music for every occasion (party, gym, car, easy etc) and it's hassle free. Nothing can ever get scratched or broken.

 

yeah I do that I have a couple of thousand songs on my phone. What I was meaning was that when I was downloading about 20 albums at a time I just wasn't listening to them. I went back to buying CD's and started ripping them instead. I refuse to get involved with I-Tunes though

 

I subscribe to the All The Madman Records Singles Club so I get sent a ltd coloured vinyl of each 7" single they release, one arrived this morning by The Mob. I only subscribed because it was the only way to get the recent Astronauts 7" on coloured vinyl, I'm a bit of a collector/twat.

 

I read these posts and thot it was the ***** thread.

 

Cheers

 

Welcum

 

I can still remember my older brother sending me into a record shop to buy Some Girls by Racey for my old man, must have been about 1979. My brother (heavily into The Clash at the time) clearly considered the record uncool and thus sent me (aged 12) in to get it. What a ****.

 

I bought me ma a John Denver LP which had been heavily advertised on telly thinking she'd like it. She didn't and took it back to the shop and swapped it for an LP by John Lennon who'd just been shot.

 

My mammy used to send me over to the shop to buy Dr Whites before I was old enough to know what they were. (last year)

 

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Didn't think you would be into that kind of stuff Gamby. You should check out MD's music thread.