Vinyl records make a return

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 £££ ?

Are they limited edition things? Maybe, anyway. The vast majority of mine're mixtapes so worth nothing, nothing but bittersweet memories

some of my tapes are limited edition (ztt cassingles etc), but on the whole nah .. just your normal chart loving crap of the 80s.

All of the music subreddits I've visited are very dire places.

I would be into tapes but unfortunately the last half dozen tape players I have owned have all stopped working or (gasp) eaten tapes, and after one too many good tapes lost, I packed them all into a trunk and put it away for now. When you play a record on a turntable you are never in danger of it destroying your record. When you play a CD in a CD player, there's not a significant chance it will accidentally slice through your disc with a laser. Eff tapes imo.

yet one tape is more useful than your entire ilx corpus

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

― Little Nicky Pizza loved that rascal Rust (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

Have you been to either of them? I moved here last autumn and I'm already impressed with the amount of record shops there are here. I go to Cheapo as much as I can and Hymies every so often too. It's ridiculous how much vinyl I've bought here in the last six months.

Yeah I live in Auckland NZ and a specialist vinyl store opened here abt I dunno, two years ago? Haven't actually been in bc no money bt a friend's working their extended (Sun/Mon) days, so I'll see what it's like sometime

I traveled around Australia and New Zealand last year. Ended spending a lot of my time in Auckland. Real Groovy was the only place I was aware of to vinyl. It has a decent selection but can be a bit on the pricey side.

Yeah, v much so. Thing is I used to work in the vinyl dept and they know fuckall abt anything that isn't p much straight rock/country/jazz type stuff, so you can find lots of v rare/great postpunk/electronic etc stuff for supercheap

I did find the odd bargain there but can't remember much of what I ended up coming back with now. Last Exit by Junior Boys and the first Hidden Cameras album were a couple I got quite cheap on vinyl. I'd spend a lot of time going through those vinyl bargain sections as there were often some gems in there. When did you work there?

Abt five years ago. Did Last Exit have anything written on the inner cover? It might've been mine

I was actually in New Zealand six/five years ago too. This might make me sound a little crazy (revealing I now live in Minnesota in a previous post) but a lot of my records are back home in the UK at my parents house so I can't check that out, really want to know if it is your copy now. I bought it almost exactly a year ago if that narrows it down.

Might be right, could be a bit too late. Sorry if this is going to bug you! It'll have "ART" on the inner cover if it ws mine

Don't worry about it. I can ask a family member to check and let me know. Would be kind of cool if it was. I was really surprised to find a copy there.

i mention this on every vinyl thread but vinyl is getting to be a fucking ripoff, especially new vinyl, don't know why all these people are getting duped into spending $25, $30, $45 on a single album, fuck that shit. and tapes are a complete joke

there are still obviously places where you can find cheap used vinyl, but i feel like they are getting rarer

the "vinyl is back!" thing has definitely pushed up prices in the past year - and every clown with a yard sale checks ebay now and puts $20 on his fucking Captain Fantastic record. You have to really dig deep to find old 45's for under $5 or even $10 at stores these days - stuff that was a 25 cents to a dollar for years and years