OMG, People Buy Records? Vinyl In The News Thread

What a risk. I'd be worried about making the money back, unless I didn't have to.

what is the freight cost of moving 20k lps halfway across the country?

what kind of people go to wilcofest anyhow? are they record buyers?? figured they'd be the ipod type

I'm sure you've got some dadrockers with a turntable and disposable income going to wilcofest

maybe not enough to buy 20,000 records though

more crackle talk...

http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/09/the-broken-record-vinyl-matter-memory-and-meaning/

SO BAD.

wait, this is from last year. maybe i already got mad at this guy on here. i'm not gonna check...

The broken record: vinyl, matter, memory and meaning

...and then, sometimes, I'm glad I didn't go to college.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N5XW5GW8Vo&feature=youtu.be

my mom just sent me one of these articles from the tulsa world. it was written by this guy
http://www.tulsaworld.com//articleimages/2013/stancavage-john.jpg
he starts out by defending the monkees

"stanky"

Jean Taylor - Tulsa posted 4 days ago
I've been collecting classical vinyl records the last three years. Have now a huge collection, and still no turntable! LOL I'm holding out for one where I can put a stack of records on, so the music will play a long, long time. All the new turntables I've seen for sale in the stores today only play one record at a time. That's no good! LOL 
I've had good luck finding vinyls at estate sales. They usually cost about $2 a piece, but sometimes I get lucky, and find some left when the prices are dropped 75%! But the vinyls themselves are priceless. The sound quality, to me, is superior to any digital recording I have ever heard. I say that, but maybe I haven't had the best digital players.... :) 

http://i39.tinypic.com/ifd5li.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151766780324214&set=a.78155749213.74698.70867474213&type=1

Things just got real: http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2013/08/whole_foods_record_store.php

yeah, noted in the post right before your post.

Duh. Whoops...

to be fair you would have no idea if you didn't click that facebook link. it makes sense though. cheese, quinoa, yogurt, black keys record. its stylish, man.

ilxor quotes ilxor in tape comeback shocker!

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/06/opinion/coleman-cassette-day/?hpt=hp_bn7

:D

I didn't know where else to put this so I put it here

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/tech/innovation/death-stereo-system/index.html?c=tech

(CNN) - For many years, it was a rite of fall.

You moved into your dorm room or new apartment. You started unpacking the car. And the first thing you set up in your new place was the stereo system: receiver, turntable or CD player, tape deck and speakers.

The wires could get tangled, and sometimes you had to make shelving out of a stack of milk crates. But only when the music was playing on those handpicked CDs, mix tapes or (geezer alert!) vinyl records did you move in the rest of your stuff.

geezer alert!
lolol

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/01/06/vinyl_lp_sales_hit_22_year_record_in_2013_digital_music_sales_down_chart.html

better than the usual article, some interesting stats in there

http://oakpark.suntimes.com/news/rsd-FPH-04192014:article

A line of people stood waiting at the register of Val’s halla Records in Oak Park the morning of April 19, most with records in their hands.

That’s right, records; those black, round objects about the size of a dinner plate. First supplanted by the 8-tracks, cassette tapes, then smaller compact disks and later by the invisible digital downloads.

and soon by ponos.

Val's halla Records in Oak Park

in Oak Park

Oak Park

https://pulseradio.net/articles/2014/05/north-america-s-biggest-vinyl-manufacturer-plans-expansion

that's pretty interesting - I wonder if those are really "new" presses, or just refurbished ones cobbled together from old ones?

http://westerndigs.org/vinyl-records-excavated-at-famous-60s-commune-challenge-hippie-stereotype-study-says/

lol of course the only contemporary records were Super Session and a Vanilla Fudge LP

better than usual article:

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9467-wax-and-wane-the-tough-realities-behind-vinyls-comeback/

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/longform/88/P4K_Features_072314_WaxAndWane-BarGraph02%20copy.png

i laughed at the anecdote about how many bands want to put blood in their records.

apparently the perfect pussy album actually did, maybe it was a different plant to that quoted

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/the-brazilian-bus-magnate-whos-buying-up-all-the-worlds-vinyl-records.html

that story is completely insane.

it really is

haha yeah it was wild. I liked it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/style/international/music-technology-comes-full-circle.html?mabReward=RI%3A12&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0

local newspaper reporter came in and told me he wants to do a store on vinyl is back. full circle. like a record.

“There is a cultural slowing-down where people can sit in the same room at the same time and have something playing that they all can listen to.”

b/c there's no way to do that with any other music format!

these articles almost make me want to burn all my vinyl records.

the circle...she is complete...

https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/553300_10153553484027137_1924275975726362520_n.jpg?oh=121c6ef863ebe82eba721c7f51fd8b6c&oe=54FB4FC5

https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10857932_10153553484322137_7702228515221090533_n.jpg?oh=f8636de364b8bbe9fc731282d3ec185f&oe=54FB33EE

You look disappointed with the article surrounding you.

"Lovers of vinyl have their reasons"

aw, congrats on that story scott!

What the heck is an album and why would I want one?