[kj] Vinyl

[Michael Halsted]

Surprised they didn't use the old standby - 8 Track Tape!

There is a good deal of audiophile vinyl that's being created
these days.  Some great Prestige-era Miles Davis as two 180-gram
45 RPM sets that sound just incredible.  I know Matador is rereleasing
some of their catalog as 180-gram vinyl.  Stereolab goes out of their
way to put special things on vinyl (longer versions of songs compared
to CD, extra B-sides not on CD, etc) which is fun.  I have a good deal
of vinyl at work.  It gives me a chance to give my hands a break every
20 or so minutes to flip the record.

And the most recent vinyl I got (and a definite guilty pleasure) is the
Bee Gees "The Studio Albums 1967-1968" 6 LP box set from Rhino.  The first
three UK LP's each with an extra disc of B sides.  Psychedelic pop guilt...

and before that "Ali and His Gang Vs. Mr. Tooth Decay"...beautiful.

http://franklarosa.com/vinyl/Exhibit.jsp?AlbumID=82

If you want to look at the most absurdly expensive turntables, take a
look at:

http://store.acousticsounds.com/category.cfm?id=111

Change "Sort By" to "Highest Price"...

especially:

http://store.acousticsounds.com/browse_detail.cfm?Title_ID=31917

Screw having a car!  Just buy that instead!  Screw sending my child to
college!  I shit twenties like a cash machine!


michael


B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:

> It's been "making a comeback" since the mid 1990s, in the media. 

> Austin has now and has always had a ton of vinyl shops. When I get 

> something new I rarely get it on CD. I get remastered stuff, like the 

> KJ re-releases on CD, but I can think of 3 places nearby that have, 

> for ex., the new Bad Brains LP on vinyl.

>

> A related anecdote: There is an episode of the Simpsons from its sixth 

> or seventh season where Homer goes into a music store. The original 

> joke was to have Homer show his age by asking for a new release on 

> vinyl. Then the Simpsons writers realized that that didn't actually 

> show one's age, because "the kids" were actually into vinyl again (and 

> this was, like, 1995/6). So they decided to make Homer show his age by 

> instead making a comment about Apple Computer, which at the time was 

> considered on its way to extinction. Obviously, neither joke has aged 

> well, where Apple is in the news everyday and vinyl can be found in 

> tons 'o places.

>

> -Oliver

>

>

> Change wrote:

>> Sounds better.

>>

>> --- nicholas fitzpatrick <gasw30 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>>

>>  

>>> I heard a radio programme the other day saying that

>>> vinyl is making a comeback. I can't remember the reasons why it is,

>>> though.

>>>

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