[kj] Vinyl

[Brendan]

I find CDs quite annoying, they are so flimsy and easy to damage. And it's
so hard to find a CD case that actually works, you usually have to bend
and scratch the bloody things to get them out of their cases...I
immediately archive my CDs and only play from copies I've made...which
tend to last even shorter...

Suppose life's not too bad if that's all I have to bitch about at the
moment though :)

But downloading has its own issues, for example mp3 is a lossy format,
meaning it doesn't have the full sound data available...hence a 5 MB mp3
is more like 50+ MB on CD. There are some non lossy formats but they
aren't that popular yet are they...? Archiving all of my mp3s took a
bloody age, at the time I was looking for a better, non lossy format, I
think they are there but decided on high quality mp3s because that's the
dominant format. I don't have good enough speakers to notice much
difference...

I Tried iTunes for a while too but ditched it, I spent long enough
changing the file names of all my music as per below:

Artist - Year - Album - Track No - Title.mp3

Took me bloody weeks, then iTunes by default wanted to replicate my entire
collection! Easy enough to turn that setting off, but once you've invested
so much time changing the file names you feel stupidly compelled to
protect your investment :)


> Vinyl had a renaissance during rave...the late 80s thru the mid-90s was a

> boomtime. However, many labels no longer release it, and there isn't

> really

> much audiophile [virgin] vinyl around today. I still release on it myself,

> but am seriously considering releasing CD only from now on, the sale of

> which is dying out itself due to downloading.

> Back to Greenpeace: With the setting up of the Stockholm Convention and

> with

> the UN banning dioxins will inevitably make vinyl production very

> difficult.

>

>

>>From: "B. Oliver Sheppard" <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>

>>Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the

>>band!)"<gathering at misera.net>

>>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"

>><gathering at misera.net>

>>Subject: Re: [kj] Vinyl

>>Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:13:20 -0500

>>

>>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.

>>>>

>>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>

>>_______________________________________________

>>Gathering mailing list

>>Gathering at misera.net

>>http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/gathering

>

> _________________________________________________________________

> http://newlivehotmail.com

>

> _______________________________________________

> Gathering mailing list

> Gathering at misera.net

> http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/gathering

>