OMG, People Buy Records? Vinyl In The News Thread

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nerve city's sleepwalker 12" -- def one of my favorite non-indie underground "punk" bands of the past few years

69, Monday, 6 December 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link

cool! can we read it somewhere?

nerve_pylon, Monday, 6 December 2010 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link

i looked on the 7x7 website and it wasn't up there yet

jaxon, Monday, 6 December 2010 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah, just in print so far -- i emailed the reporter to get some copies!

69, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link

I saw Alan Zweig's "Vinyl" last night - it starts out being kinda what you expect (LOL record nerds), but ends up being a lot more. Worth watching IMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW9NWHvv8fc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3uRA2Bxg0s&feature=related

Carl (admrl), Sunday, 19 December 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link

Vinyl has a "soul" cd just cant replace.

CoolDudeClem 2 months ago

orly? zzzzzzzzzz

Carl (admrl), Sunday, 19 December 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link

two months pass...

never even heard of this place. and it still has buried treasure in it? in brooklyn? seems hard to believe, but what do i know?

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/sked-for-sunday-feb-27-a-beloved-record-store-closes-among-last-in-a-dying-breed/

scott seward, Monday, 28 February 2011 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link

"This strikes me ambivalently, with three major valences (or vectors). It’s sad, that a long-established, well-liked, family business is closing down. That always strikes me as unfortunate, unlike when a Rite Aid or Starbucks closes.

However, (valence #2), I’m happy for Mr. Long in that he can retire honorably, years after most people do, and know that he accomplished something worthwhile with his business, providing vinyl excellence to a neighborhood for decades.

Lastly, (valence #3, stoic resignation) there’s a grim inevitability about this, as vinyl is an extremely outmoded recording form. First there was vinyl (thanks to Edison I think), then tape cassettes, then CD’s, and now MP3’s, fully interchangable digital recordings. Any teenager these days would figure buying records or tapes is lunacy, because they have nothing to play them on.

So I think we’re hitting the stage in between used record stores and vinyl being seen only in antique stores (which may hit in about a decade), and that’s simply the way it goes, like nobody owns a gramophone these days (that big horn thing over the record player). Mr. Long should feel proud to have done well, in a minor role in the end of an era.
— Dan Stackhouse"

so into comments like these

69, Monday, 28 February 2011 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah, echoing Scott, kinda hard to believe there would be some remaining outpost -- especially in BK -- where a vet collector could score 1000 45s for $600 of "stuff he'd never seen before".

also woah, from one of the last of those comments: "despite a resurgance, technics has discontinued the industry standard 1200 turntable for the DJ subsection of the vinyl collector market."

Is this actually true? Old news? I hadn't heard that before. but maybe I did and I forgot.

Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 06:02 (thirteen years ago) link

i'm thinking this might actually be of use? instead of me checking all the sites before i buy. and how does it know rarity?

http://www.cratekings.com/icrates-iphone-app-the-perfect-digging-companion

jaxon, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 06:07 (thirteen years ago) link

also, u can turn yourself or a loved one into a record when they die. might have to change my plan to either be shot into space or turned into a precious jewel

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-08/27/and-vinyly

jaxon, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 06:11 (thirteen years ago) link

turned into a record and the record is shot into space

dmr, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link

Is this actually true? Old news? I hadn't heard that before. but maybe I did and I forgot.

apparently true, wow. had not heard that.

http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/10/29/industry-standard-turntable-technics-sl-1200-discontinued-by-panasonic

dmr, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah im sure someone posted abt that on ilm? or maybe i saw it somewhere else. anyway, v sad news.

just sayin, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link

don't think this one got posted

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2011-02-25-vinyl25_ST_N.htm

Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link

it's the never ending story of the decade!

scott seward, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link

According to recent Nielsen SoundScan numbers, vinyl was the fastest-growing musical format in 2010, with 2.8 million units sold, the format's best year since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.

now this is actually newsworthy in my opinion. that whole article was just like every other one, but a little better researched.

sleeve, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link

it's an epidemic...

scott seward, Thursday, 3 March 2011 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

THEY HAVE OLD DUSTY CRACKLY SOULS!

scott seward, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link

that was the hardest article to read and not vom everywhere.

"Before I had the vinyls": sounds like he has the gout or something.

jaxon, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link

omg, why was it 2 pages?

jaxon, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link

http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2011/03/29/6369090-why-you-shouldnt-plan-on-working-at-a-record-store-or-newspaper

When was the last time you were in a record store? Yeah, we can’t remember either (maybe it was December, but that was to buy concert tickets).

Market research firm IBISWorld.com analyzed its database of 700 industries and came up with 10 that, if not dead, are circling the drain.

They are, in order of most revenue earned in 2010 to least:

1. Wired communications carriers
2. Mills
3. Newspaper publishing
4. Apparel manufacturing
5. DVD, game and video rents
6. Manufactured home dealers
7. Video postproduction services
8. Record stores
9. Photofinishing
10. Formal wear and costume rental

While some aren’t surprising (Hello Blockbuster! How are those late fees treating you?), it does give an interesting glance into where we may be as a country. Are we slobs that never dress up anymore? And given the housing market, you’d think a mobile home might be an attractive option due to its affordability.

Which one of these do you still patronize?

GLOWER METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 09:21 (thirteen years ago) link

So get out there and buy some records, rent a gorilla suit, take some barley down to the stone mill...

GLOWER METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 09:22 (thirteen years ago) link

Surely the power of water ans steam and the cuteness of old mills could be harnessed to press records?

I'm Street but I Know my Roots (sonofstan), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 09:48 (thirteen years ago) link

OMG think you're on to something. To hell with lathe cuts!

GLOWER METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 09:53 (thirteen years ago) link

So much wrong in here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/music/news/article.cfm?c_id=264&objectid=10717712 Music is dead btw

Bill E, Friday, 8 April 2011 01:51 (thirteen years ago) link

that made so little sense i'm not sure i even read it

foul bachelor frogbs (electricsound), Friday, 8 April 2011 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link

What a weird and unreadable style that's written in.

Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 8 April 2011 11:34 (thirteen years ago) link

Wow, NZ news is all about the 'vinyl is back' at the moment:http://www.rotoruadailypost.co.nz/have-your-say/news/nostalgia-trip-to-the-days-of-vinyl/3947756/

Bill E, Monday, 11 April 2011 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link

haha the comments on that NZ Herald article are merciless

sleeve, Monday, 11 April 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link

A Mamaku man says vinyl records are still worth buying - they have a better sound and bring back nostalgia.

Craig Roberts bought three records at the Rotorua Record Fair at Ngongotaha Hall yesterday.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgbj6dMOzl1qf8yek.gif

omar little, Monday, 11 April 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link

r.i.p.

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

scott seward, Monday, 11 April 2011 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link

except for tower and virgin kinda.

scott seward, Monday, 11 April 2011 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link

remember moving to philly in the late 80's and thinking how cool it was that there was the tower on south street and over the years slowly watching it turn into a dark pit to be avoided.

scott seward, Monday, 11 April 2011 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link

that's for sure! also, let's not forget the awesome 3rd Street Jazz.

nerve_pylon, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link

spent many an hour in 3rd street. my friend john who worked at 3rd street for years moved near me recently! hadn't seen him in a long time.

scott seward, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link

i wonder if it's the same John i remember...lived around the corner from me in Fitler Square.

A N Y H O O

http://www.icaboston.org/custom-html/index?item_id=19199001

not only is vinyl in the news, people make ART WITH IT!

nerve_pylon, Thursday, 14 April 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link

fuck a vinyl metaphor.

scott seward, Thursday, 14 April 2011 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link

or maybe not. i don't even know anymore.

scott seward, Thursday, 14 April 2011 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link

fuck a baby boomer though. kill their pony-tailed asses. fucking grill me about records they haven't listened to in 25 years. for hours. idiots. "oh i had all these oh i had as much as you've got in your store even more than that can you still find records who buys them blah blah blah" fuck you old man. yer either on the bus or off the bus. get out!

scott seward, Thursday, 14 April 2011 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link

AIN'T GOT TIME FOR YOUR SAD NOSTALGIA OLD MAN OR YOUR SMIRKY FUCKING INSINUATIONS THAT I'M AN IDIOT FOR SELLING RECORDS OR YOUR CONSTANT NATTERING ABOUT HOW I'M TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER ANYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED EVER I GET IT YOU WERE THERE WOULD YOU PLEASE GO THE FUCK BACK THERE.

government really fucking slipped up by not going after these assholes and shipping them to the big muddy.

scott seward, Thursday, 14 April 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link

hahahha. god skot, how do you think it is for me?? i get "you weren't even born when i saw this band!?!?!!" all the time.

one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 14 April 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link

i love it when ss turns into the lex.

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 April 2011 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link

ha! good thing i'll never be able to grow a pony tail. zeppelin in '72. tellin' you guys.

Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 14 April 2011 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link

http://www.amazon.com/Record-Collecting-Girls-Unleashing-Inner/dp/0547502230/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1303250156&sr=8-1

lolz. womyn'z be buying vinylz too

jaxon, Saturday, 23 April 2011 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link

"In Record Collecting for Girls Courtney Smith takes the mic and explores what music can tell women about men"

um, okay...

scott seward, Saturday, 23 April 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link

girl tip books probably still sell well. what do i know?

need some actual ilx girlz to weigh in here...

scott seward, Saturday, 23 April 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link


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