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When it was adopted by the hipsteratti.
I personally don't mind it referred to as vinyl as such. It is what it is.
What winds me up is that it seems to have become a trendy thing that people get snobby about. I also hate the way people seem to fawn over it.
It's a tool to play music. I don't understand why people seem to make a big thing out of using it.
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
Surely someone can develop a plugin for itunes that adds the distortion and compression supplied by playing on vinyl, for those who prefer it?
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Mainly because I've got no way of playing them any more. And I've got no storage space. But also because I can't get over the fact that it's now a more expensive medium than CDs, which were three times the price of records when they first came in.
The term vinyl does rankle a little because it's a new name for something old which already had a name, but times change...
What i I couldn’t understand is why cds were more expensive than records when they were introduced. It was a massive con.
The more I think about this I’m actually reasonably comfortable to referring to vinyl. Vinyls still rankles though.
I don't mind the term vinyl. I still think of mine as records though.
Personally, I still listen to a fair bit of music on vinyl. I'd say at home, it's 80% of my listening, whereas on the move it, it's always digital (not CD, but Flac, MP3 or streaming). LPs work for me for a few reasons:
1) I had quite a lot of LPs that I've had since I was a teenager, and when I was skint in my 20s I tended to buy a mix of CDs (all ripped to disc now) or second hand LPs which were cheap, and it was often a good way to get cool/interesting stuff that wasn't always available on CD, or which was only available as expensive US imports or reissues.* So, I don't have thousands of LPs, but I have a few hundred, and those few hundred contain a pretty high chunk of my all time favourite music.
2) Playing an LP is actually quite convenient. It's about as quick for me to go to the shelf where the LPs are, pull one out and put it on a turntable as it is to open the app on my phone, browse through the albums I have on disc, and tell the streamer (in my case a Pi with a DAC) to play it.
3) Modern LPs often come with a download code for lossless audio, so if I buy an LP I get both formats, which is nice.
4) If I play records, I'm basically forced to listen to an entire side, rather than being tempted to skip around or play random tracks. I find that's better for me in terms of getting immersed in the music. I _could_ do that with digital stuff, but I tend not to.
In terms of sound quality, it's a bit mixed. I have a nice turntable and a good phono pre. Not crazy expensive, just decent mid to high end stuff that I bought second hand years ago, when it was cheap. So a good well looked after LP sounds excellent. A really good lossless digital version can sound better, but sometimes modern remasterings of recordings I like are not, to my ears, as good as the original version. So I have some things where I prefer the digital version (whether ripped from CD or bought as lossless audio) and some things where I prefer the LP version. I'm not dogmatic about it.
* I have oddities like Soviet era Russian pressings of 1930s and 1940s jazz, for example. And also lots of classical box sets which are really high quality, but which are massively more expensive to buy on CD than to pick up a second hand vinyl box set. Also, lots of basically crap 80s metal and hard rock which I have a soft spot for, but which, if I'm honest, I'd never want to buy again on CD or digital.
Although a lot of people think it's cool to have vinyl, and I guess in some ways it is, the whole resurgence is consumerism gone utterly mad. When I see people bring less than a handful of records to the till, classic ones that everyone has, it stuns me that they willing to pay in excess of £100. Over a £100 for four albums? Really, is that cool?
They would probably say the same about us spending loads on different overdrives and guitars! It's all part of the journey. You don't just get interested in it one day and have your entire hobby set up the next day
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But in all of the discussions we had, sound quality was always dismissed as irrelevant. She wasn't buying it to play old records, or to buy into the sound of vinyl -- we can argue whether or not that's something we should care about, but it's a reason that codgers like us buy records -- it was purely about being the kind of person that plays vinyl LPs. Even if it sounds like crap.
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I said maybe.....
Those Crosby decks annoy me too, my brother bought one then "upgraded" to an Ion thing. Sound shite yet he constantly posts on facebook about how gret it is to listen to his dozen vinyls.