OMG, People Buy Records? Vinyl In The News Thread

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2011/04/new_app_vinyllove_makes_your_i.php

So dorky. And people of the world: no one really listens to vinyl because they like the clicks and pops. That shit's annoying.

the click and pop thing is one of my real hates about these articles. but i HAVE heard people say that they like this about vinyl. even on ilm. drives me up a wall.

number of times someone has said to me "i hear vinyl is coming back" in my store: 43939334484 times.

your surly record store guy stock answer should be: "i hear my fist in your face is coming back, too!"

it's kind of amazing that in 2011 vinyl is still HANDS DOWN better at letting you choose where in the song to begin listening than any music player, be it CD or iTunes or your iPod or what have you. (i believe this is sometimes called "random access".)

my wife had a modest collection of 200 records when i first met her (now it's grown to 210 imo!) and she sort of made me realize or at least notice that there are probably at least as many women as men in my circle who own a decent number of records but they tend to not talk about it, they just have them. it's the whole dude collector mentality and the drive to discuss our libraries.

the tags on that courtney smith book:

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^^here comes the poll!

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^^pretty cold

that was my vote!

i can dig the nostalgic feeling of clicks and pops, it's like a warm blanket in front of a crackling fire.

but yeah, seriously, i've been on a cleaning binge lately after getting a bunch of free moldy records and have found that unless the records is truly scratched, most of the noise is dirt and grime and can be cleaned right away. since then, i've been turning shit into gold and rediscovering old cool records that were almost unlistenable but I kept around cuz they were so awesome. the bass & drums immediately pop out, even scratched records sound better in between the clicks. i use worn t-shirt rags, water & iso alcohol mix, wipe, dry

guys! Mavericks are defying the digital age!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/apr/24/mavericks-defying-digital-age

Here's an app that lets you have the magic of 'vinyls' without all that annoying fuss and dirt!

http://gizmodo.com/#!5792791/vinyllove-for-ipad-re+creates-that-warm-vinyl-record-sound-for-your-mp3s

okay i admit i'm laughing that the woman artist in that guardian article has exactly 200 records!

and i will also admit that as soon as i see that picture of her with records scattered all over the floor and not in sleeves it reinforces my paranoid sexist fear that maria will not handle my records properly when she's at home and i'm not there. i'm horrible...

ugh i know! that picture is a promo-shot tragedy

but then i don't have plastic sleeves for most of my records (i do not have 200 records or anything tho) so i guess i am a heathen too

no i just meant paper sleeves. i hate seeing naked records on the floor in pictures.

oh i just mean the ones that go over the cardboard part! (i was being lolsarcastic on the internet)

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hahaa

My performance, Wind-Up, involves gramophone turntables and 78rpm records. I place electrical tape on the records to create an additional tactile layer. This creates unexpected percussive discordances, harmonies and locked grooves.

I'm always bewildered by the extraordinary sounds within these 80-year-old records.

she's like a li'l Christian Marclay

savagery.

I DON'T SEE HOW ANY OF THAT IS UNEXPECTED CUZ HEY LOOK YER PUTTING TAPE ON THE PLAYING SURFACE OF THE FUCKING RECORD.

it's like fish with chocolate-cheese sauce

mmmmmm "unexpected"

sometimes i like to melt up a couple of records and spread the resultant mess onto an intact record to create percussive discordances.

^^can i make this the new borad description

What about all the flooring fans?

byron c. famous owner of yodspace came in the store today and told me that he really liked my record paper that i wrote for the conference in la. that made me feel good. i thought he might dig it. he's my kinda guy. then he bought records. he's reading poetry tonight at the book mill with will oldham and being backed by ben chasney. how hip is that?

(kinda could pick his brain about records forever. how does he do it? its nuts. he remembers EVERYTHING. i can barely remember my phone number.)

that is v hip

that's an underworld triple threat right there.

people not buying records

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-sad-portraits-of-closed-record-stores

i've spent plenty of time in at least 4 or 5 of those stores

i posted that on here two weeks ago but i still love you.

ha. that's cool. i posted the same link about the ipad app that makes your mp3s sound like vinyl that sonofstan posted a day before him. no biggie. i've only got enough room in my brain to remember records and nothing else

what is your wife's birthday???!

i posted the same link about the ipad app that makes your mp3s sound like vinyl that sonofstan posted a day before him. no biggie.

So you did. oops. Can I plead the same excuse?

all is forgiven

http://i775.photobucket.com/albums/yy38/harveycanal/JudyBlume.jpg

wld read

Judy blume is on the second raincoats record right?

my pal mike!

http://mvgazette.com/article.php?30490

http://mvgazette.com/zoom.php?10624

aw! cuetest!

i spent so much time in that store. i had nowhere else to go on that island! good thing me and him hit it off so well. other than beth parker and her lovely husband and some of maria's family upisland, mike is one of the only people i miss on that rock.

he just seems to have that good-guy vibe to him!
and that sign is rulin

http://whoknew.news.yahoo.com/?nc&vid=26245521