:D
― ian, Friday, 6 September 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
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
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 29 September 2013 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
(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.
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
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 30 September 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
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
― barranca jagger (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 10:14 (ten years ago) link
better than the usual article, some interesting stats in there
― sleeve, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
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.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 21 April 2014 22:04 (ten years ago) link
and soon by ponos.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 21 April 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
Val's halla Records in Oak Park
― mattresslessness, Monday, 21 April 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
in Oak Park
Oak Park
https://pulseradio.net/articles/2014/05/north-america-s-biggest-vinyl-manufacturer-plans-expansion
― just sayin, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 10:05 (ten years ago) link
that's pretty interesting - I wonder if those are really "new" presses, or just refurbished ones cobbled together from old ones?
― RSD-rolled (sleeve), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
http://westerndigs.org/vinyl-records-excavated-at-famous-60s-commune-challenge-hippie-stereotype-study-says/
― Snop Snitchin, Thursday, 5 June 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link
lol of course the only contemporary records were Super Session and a Vanilla Fudge LP
― polyamanita (sleeve), Thursday, 5 June 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
better than usual article:
http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9467-wax-and-wane-the-tough-realities-behind-vinyls-comeback/
― sleeve, Friday, 1 August 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
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.
― mizzell, Friday, 1 August 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
apparently the perfect pussy album actually did, maybe it was a different plant to that quoted
― doodle cock-up (electricsound), Saturday, 2 August 2014 02:43 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/the-brazilian-bus-magnate-whos-buying-up-all-the-worlds-vinyl-records.html
― city worker, Sunday, 10 August 2014 01:38 (ten years ago) link
that story is completely insane.
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 August 2014 03:16 (ten years ago) link
it really is
― sleeve, Monday, 11 August 2014 14:48 (ten years ago) link
haha yeah it was wild. I liked it.
― dmr, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 01:46 (ten years ago) link
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
― sleeve, Monday, 24 November 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
local newspaper reporter came in and told me he wants to do a store on vinyl is back. full circle. like a record.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
“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.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Saturday, 20 December 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
You look disappointed with the article surrounding you.
― Pooja Bhatt's erotic thriller Jism 2 (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 20 December 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
"Lovers of vinyl have their reasons"
― nerve_pylon, Saturday, 20 December 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
aw, congrats on that story scott!
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Saturday, 20 December 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
What the heck is an album and why would I want one?
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 20 December 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
I think it's part of an egg
― Pooja Bhatt's erotic thriller Jism 2 (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 21 December 2014 01:05 (nine years ago) link
This is good news: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/03/03/quality-record-pressing-vinyl-demand/24289315/
― schwantz, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
its the HOT STAMPER dude - http://www.wired.com/2015/03/hot-stampers/
― just sayin, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link
fuckin' audio oenophiles
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130209140042/house-of-cards/images/6/6a/Doug_page.png
― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
here come the hot stamper
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
I've seen two medicine commercials with record shoppin' scenes.
― Flow-through nonresident pass-through entity (los blue jeans), Saturday, 7 March 2015 04:23 (nine years ago) link
http://jesseengland.net/index.php?/project/universal-record/
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 April 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
That's rad. Feel like I could make a better one. Would anyone buy it?
― schwantz, Monday, 13 April 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
Stereo would be tough.
― schwantz, Monday, 13 April 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/we-get-that-fcking-vinyl-is-back-says-everyone-2015041597356
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
record libraries are newsworthy now? this is a strange place in as much as it's a beautiful building containing not really all that many records:
http://www.factmag.com/2015/05/28/seoul-music-library-understage-vinyl-library/
― mortal boomkat (NickB), Thursday, 28 May 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
aaaaaagh kill me now
"the warm and wonderful crackle of vinyl was finally fighting back against cold, compressed MP3s"
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/dec/09/vinyl-record-sales-up-but-indie-labels-dont-see-benefit
(article is actually OK imo)
― sleeve, Saturday, 10 December 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
In April 2015, when Sonic Cathedral joined forces with Bristol agent provocateurs Howling Owl to begin our Record Store Day Is Dying campaign, we flippantly suggested that every day should be a record store day.
hmm, where have I heard this before?
― Lee626, Saturday, 10 December 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
it's over, y'all
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-vinyls-boom-is-over-1500721202
― sleeve, Sunday, 23 July 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link
When is the "hiding your dumb vinyl story behind a paywall" boom gonna end tho
― Puke and Other Poems (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 24 July 2017 02:16 (seven years ago) link
Repost here (scroll down a bit):
http://www.reddit.com/r/vinyl/comments/6oxff7/why_vinyls_boom_is_over_gillian_welch_david/?st=j5gv5hhr
― Lee626, Monday, 24 July 2017 11:16 (seven years ago) link
https://www.channelnews.com.au/vinyl-sales-slump-quality-blamed/
In the first half of 2015, sales of vinyl records jumped 38% compared to the same period the prior year, to 5.6 million units, Nielsen Music data show.
A year later, growth slowed to 12%. This year, sales rose a modest 2%. “It’s flattening out,” says Steve Sheldon, president of Los Angeles pressing plant Rainbo Records. While he doesn’t see a bubble bursting—plants are busy—he believes vinyl is “getting close to plateauing.”
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:17 (seven years ago) link
Old LPs were cut from analog tapes—that’s why they sound so high quality. But the majority of today’s new and re-issued vinyl albums—around 80% or more, several experts estimate—start from digital files, even lower-quality CDs. These digital files are often loud and harsh-sounding, optimized for ear-buds, not living rooms. So the new vinyl LP is sometimes inferior to what a consumer hears on a CD.“They’re re-issuing [old albums] and not using the original tapes” to save time and money, says Michael Fremer, editor of AnalogPlanet.com and one of America’s leading audio authorities. “They have the tapes. They could take them out and have it done right—by a good engineer. They don’t.”As more consumers discover this disconnect, vinyl sales are starting to slow. In the first half of 2015, sales of vinyl records jumped 38% compared to the same period the prior year, to 5.6 million units, Nielsen Music data show. A year later, growth slowed to 12%. This year, sales rose a modest 2%. “It’s flattening out,” says Steve Sheldon, president of Los Angeles pressing plant Rainbo Records. While he doesn’t see a bubble bursting—plants are busy—he believes vinyl is “getting close to plateauing.”
“They’re re-issuing [old albums] and not using the original tapes” to save time and money, says Michael Fremer, editor of AnalogPlanet.com and one of America’s leading audio authorities. “They have the tapes. They could take them out and have it done right—by a good engineer. They don’t.”
As more consumers discover this disconnect, vinyl sales are starting to slow. In the first half of 2015, sales of vinyl records jumped 38% compared to the same period the prior year, to 5.6 million units, Nielsen Music data show. A year later, growth slowed to 12%. This year, sales rose a modest 2%. “It’s flattening out,” says Steve Sheldon, president of Los Angeles pressing plant Rainbo Records. While he doesn’t see a bubble bursting—plants are busy—he believes vinyl is “getting close to plateauing.”
is this really the reason vinyl sales are slowing, that newer vinyl consumers are realizing the source is digital, not analog? i doubt it. later on it says another reason is the high cost of vinyl and that maybe seems more likely to me. people maybe getting tired of paying $30-$40 for an album
― marcos, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link