Would you give up digital and go back to vinyl music?

[JimmyByrne09]

I will do that as well, there's a lot of stuff I got.

 

[Džedaj]

I would maybe give up digital. I have iPod and I listen to it quite often, but the only thing with music that I'm investing my money in are vinyls. To me, it sounds better and there's nothing like make nice atmosphere in my bedroom, fire up some incense sticks, put on some good vinyl and draw/paint. I just love vinyls. I don't give a damn about bands scoring more money when every concert is above 50 dollars, I don't see them living a hard life. Digital era gave a chance to those underground bands to get more famous through internet, but however there's inflation (?) in bands and nowadays everyone can make their own myspace channel and get heared, back in the day you should really be good to get heared.

 

[LG]

^^There is both good and bad as you say DZ. The internet provides possibilities none of the bands from the old days could have dreamed of, but at the expense of giving away their music instead of selling vinyl like I grew up with.

Many established bands have made the transition, accepting the reality that concert tours are the biggest revenue generating part of their business, and their albums secondary. It was the opposite when I grew up, tickets to concerts were cheap and the bands toured constantly to sell albums.

Incense, vinyl and your art supplies, all that's missing would be a blacklight and you'd fit right in the '60's...

 

[Nololob]

If I only was 40 years back and go to a record shop looking for tons, tons of LPs to buy... with interest on music like I do have now my collection would be huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge...

 

[LG]

^^You'd need a closet the size of your bedroom to hold them all Nolo...

That was the biggest thing with vinyl, it required tons of space to store, and moving them around was a pain in the butt as well. But I miss my old records, so many you can't buy now even on e-bay I gave up on that years ago.

 

[Nololob]

I wouldn't care about space, having satisfaction from having something that can be impossible (literally) to get in few decades is priceless. Unfortunately I have that difficulty.

 

[LG]

An old friend of mine had over 10,000 vinyl albums. He had rows of massive steel shelves set up to hold them all. His wife hated the space they took up, but his stereo and music collection were not negotiable, so she could do whatever she wanted with the living room as long as his basement music room was left for his treasures.

 

[Nololob]

That's nothing comparing to this guy...


I want his collection soooo badly....

 

[LG]

^^That is overkill, you get to the point you can't even Play them all. Actually you are in the most satisfying time as far as collecting goes, it's always the most fun early on. You can play all your treasures and revisit them whenever you want, as your library grows you simply can't listen to them all. As a result many just take up space, and I for one Play my albums, that is what they are for.

I will add that even some mediocre albums with great cover art are worth keeping for that reason alone.

 

[Nololob]

^^ That's what collection is, it's like collecting stamps. You get to the point when collection is quite big, someone says "I can't find this album anywhere" and then you come up with CD/LP and watch a big on a face.

I'm still too young though to be a proper collector, I would need to get house and job first, depending maybe transport as well to visit various big cities like Birmingham or Liverpool. I will be buying both formats, I won't be able to play vinyls in a car or at work.