I have a couple of vinyls, no player too :-)
I buy them because I like to see the cover & lyrics while listing to it (mp3).
50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player
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#292Also just in:
Half of all buyers of scented candles actually burn them.
Half the buyers of those fancy soap bars in the shapes of fruit or whatever actually use them as soap .
Half of all shutters on houses can actually be closed to "shutter" the windows
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I'm curious - does the music content actually matter to you? Would you buy an album from an artist you've never heard just because the cover art was great?
Not who you're replying to (but I'm in the same camp). I use the album art as decoration, but the music is the first selection criteria. The music has to mean something to me first, and then the album art just needs to "pass". I have young kids also, so I try to stay away from violent or scary album art.
Why not just buy the cardboard cover?
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Is it consumerism to walk around the beach collecting pretty rocks to go home and put them on a shelf?
A rock is not a consumer good, so no. And a rock is unique, nice to look at, did not cost you anything and kind of an appreciation of nature. Enjoy your rock! (i'm sincere)
Naturally since people are buying things, technically they are consuming.
I mean that collecting a relatively small number of durable and visually pleasing objects isn't really the worst flavor of consumerism, even if it seems pointless to some people.
I agree we have a massive problem with over-consumption (most glaringly with things like fast fashion), but I'm not sure record collectors are a big problem.
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#295I oversee pressing for over 150k+ records a year. We eliminated download cards a while ago because the redemption rate was so low. I wouldn’t doubt if the number of buyers who don’t own a record player is even higher tha 50%, and that the percentage of people who actually play the records is actually 10-20%. I don’t have data on that, it’s just a hunch. Many of us in the indie music industry (hip hop sustained record…
>It’s a lot of plastic. A lot of waste. I don't know all the nitty-gritty, but the last Shellac record was "pressed" using an injection molding process that utilized recyclable PET (I can't find the interview with Albini[RIP] where this was discussed but if I find it I'll edit it into the comment).
Confused by this until I realized you meant "Shellac (band)" and not "Shellac - resin secreted by the female lac bug" which was used to press records in the 1920s.
The last shellac record was indeed made from shellac. And shellac is a natural (or at least non-manmade) material; does this make it more environmentally friendly than vinyl or PET?
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#296Re: 50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player
#297Also just in: Half of all buyers of scented candles actually burn them. Half the buyers of those fancy soap bars in the shapes of fruit or whatever actually use them as soap . Half of all shutters on houses can actually be closed to "shutter" the windows
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#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
A rock is not a consumer good, so no. And a rock is unique, nice to look at, did not cost you anything and kind of an appreciation of nature. Enjoy your rock! (i'm sincere)
Naturally since people are buying things, technically they are consuming. I mean that collecting a relatively small number of durable and visually pleasing objects isn't really the worst flavor of consumerism, even if it seems pointless to some people. I agree we have a massive problem with over-consumption (most glaringly with things like fast fashion), but I'm not sure record collectors are a big problem.
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> cassette cassette can get to fuck. They were and always are, a shit medium.
Hard disagree. Sure the sound quality isn't great, but cassettes have a great user experience. My kids listen to stories on CD and Cassette. With Cassettes you can just stop and continue later exactly where you were. On CD they have to remember the chapter and the number of minutes. Which they never do so they are less motivated to continue listening. The same is true for VHS. One of the great benefits of Netflix is…
They are fragile, they sound terrible. Unless you had a very expensive player, they also introduced a wobble in the sound that drives me fucking crazy.
Yes, there is cover art, I miss decent cover art and the thought that some people put into it.
VHS can also fuck right off. Sure I loved the stuff that was on them as a kid, but I fucking hated them as a medium. A nice Humax from the early 2000s obliterated VHSs.
Don't get me wrong, everything else about digital media suck arse, the shitty player and bollocks practices. But the experience of the media it's self is far far better.