Vinyl records make a return

blood hell.
thats a lot of words.

I'm looking forward to reading that post

Speaking Of Old Vinyl Records, Here's My Father's Day Playlist For Tomorrow

Right on, Scott. My theory about why I can't listen to the Magic Transistor site for more than an hour at a time: it's all direct from vinyl. Yes, I'm a vinyl wuss. Such rich, aromatic, twilight tides So far I'm hooked on the far left channel: early 60s-to-early 70s, European and American r&b and related (incl Northern Soul and garageness) with some rock (Love's or Arthur Lee's "Everybody's Gotta Live"["because everybody's gotta die"]). Anyway that's the orientation when I've approached. Elsewhere on there, we get Krautrock, UK L.Cohen rivals, lots more from them days.

i'm not saying you can't go too far though...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/942564_10151663506842165_922860171_n.jpg

i don't have a link to the article, but a friend mentioned that the queens album that hit #1 last week had something like 20% of its sales through vinyl, which seems like a large portion.

Yeah, but these days you only need to sell like 75 records to hit #1.

i was working at their label for two weeks when the queens of the stone age record shipped and can verify shipping TONS of vinyl. also note, however, that there are THREE DIFFERENT VINYL FORMATS, and many people bought at least two of them. i don't have any numbers in front of me. but if there had been only one format and no reason to buy two or three copies, i imagine the percentage would be, i dunno, more like 15%?

(ballpark estimate there.)

yeah, was gonna say, they went some lengths to make the vinyl for that desirable.

lol
Is It Ok to Buy Records at Urban Outfitters?

an Instagram contest where users submitted pictures of Sub Pop-themed temporary tattoos.

local t.v. news guy came in and said he wanted to do a story in my store about turntables and vinyl. i told him to go away.

Did you explain to him why at all?

not really. i did say that i wasn't ready. but that was just off the top of my head. but not far from the truth. i'm tired and i look like crap and my store - in my eyes anyway - looks terrible. probably looks fine to other people. he really didn't want to leave. he kept saying i'd be doing him a big favor. what i wanted to say and didn't say was that he would have done me a big favor by calling a day or two beforehand and letting me get ready and then maybe i would have. but i'm just cranky really. and i hate t.v. news.

plus he was just a doofus with one of those haircuts. i wanted him out.

"One local proprietor refused to speak with us, and angrily told us to leave his store."

he asked if he could film the OUTSIDE of the store and i said he could do whatever he wanted on the street. haha! i'm easing into my old crank role quite nicely on main street in greenfield.

don't tell maria about this though. she'd kill me. but she's out of town. otherwise i would have let her do it. she's a camera hog.

ppl with cameras who think they can do whatever they want whenever they want = pet peeve

was he just on the street for another story that fell through and looking for a replacement bit? so weird they didn't call first.

having dealt with obnoxious tv news anchors in the past, I feel yr pain scott

i told him to go to northampton or amherst and he said it had to be in this county for some reason. a real locavore. that's why i need maria here. she's my buffer. she talks to the people who don't want to buy records. and sometimes they outnumber the people who want to buy records in a day.

she talks to all the incredulous baby boomers. i put my FAQ up by the door so that i don't have to talk to them, but they never read it.

New Protomartyr and Heliotropes albums both seem to be available only digitally and on vinyl.

I love that FAQ!

Did he say what the angle of the story was? Was it the usual "Remember these? Kids're buyin' 'em!" thing?

thanks. i tried to be clear and concise and kinda funny but not rude or anything with the FAQ. i wasn't rude to the t.v. guy either. i said no thank you like 50 times.

no, no angle. just mentioned turntables and vinyl. i think someone just sent him out to get a story on it. he was young.

Darn, I'd love to see the FAQ!

pretty sure that FAQ has been posted here before - seem to recall having several chuckles about it.

http://skotrok.blogspot.com/2012/05/john-doe-jr-used-records-books-faq.html

"New Protomartyr and Heliotropes albums both seem to be available only digitally and on vinyl."

I wanted to do this with my album but was talked into doing CDs by the label. But I have a feeling that own't be the case for the next one. We are doing 250 vinyl copies though. It was expensive but it was worth it judging by the test pressings.

"New Protomartyr and Heliotropes albums both seem to be available only digitally and on vinyl."

dance music to thread

http://www.reddit.com/r/Vinyl

How does this place make you feel?

Some thread titles:

- Picked up a new record [Youth Lagoon] this past weekend. What do you guys think?

- every day i wake up and ask myself why isn't the mario 64 soundtrack pressed onto vinyl

- Vinyl Is a Music Choice: The Right One (http://www.thestreet.com/story/12543788/1/vinyl-is-a-music-choice-the-right-one.html)

- Anyone else pumped for record store day?

what's the vegas over/under on how many more years we'll keep reading this same story over and over: 4? 5?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, August 18, 2008 8:27 AM (5 years ago)

Responding to that article?

tbf, vinyl is making an extraordinarily incremental and prolonged comeback

nah just though it was appropriate xp

like it's not just like vinyl is "back" again every few years, it's a little bit more "back" every few years.

agreed.

when I was buying records at a newer all-vinyl store in VA last week the owner told me that somebody comes in at least once a day asking where they can buy turntables. Two people did exactly that in the 30 minutes I was browsing.

I heard Bed Bath Beyond has a pretty rad one for like 40 bucks.

Picked up the Lorde album on vinyl at a vvv suburban megamall this week, admittedly only other vinyl they had ws that superdeluxe new Blue Lines, but still

reading about DACs and "computer audio" last weekend almost made me want to chuck it all and go 100% vinyl/cassette

it's all comes down to personal preference, of course, but to me this digital brittle brutalism is like buffing metal with metal

2 new vinyl only record stores opened in St. Paul last week

i bought a used john renbourne record recently. but i'm no hero, just a guy doing my bit.

oh no ..
this links up to my current dilemma re a laptop based output vs laptop + dac
too many variables.
never going back to cassette though .. those fuckers were evil.
and as for vinyl ?
well for all the hipster love, those buggers are nasty to look after and you need to flip'em every 20 mins.
sod that.

Oh and tapes're making a comeback, that's been going a while so I guess it's been discussed, I guess I didn't expect THAT

sh@kedown dudes like you are the true heroes etc etc

yeah, i know re new found cassette love ..

does this mean my boxes full of the lo-fi bastards in the attic have now become £££ ?