How many of you have ever heard a vinyl LP played?
Any of you own a LP and/or a record player?
How many of you can use a record player?
I know many assume that LPs are outdated and CDs are the way of the future but that is wrong. Its two very different sounds, two different ways of forms of presenting the music. CDs are silent, making the music distant and altering it. Placing the sounds under a magnifying glass and cranking the magnification.
LPs tell you something is about to happen when you put them on and have a warmer sound. The have the "live" sound. They have crackles and pops that are unique to each record. Records for tracks to be heard in the order and the way an artist wants. You can't skip or change the order and what songs are there exactly as the artist intended. Records split themselves between two sides offering the artist to present works as two halves to a whole, this is often put to great effect. The way a record plays also allows the artist infinite possible manipulations of tracks by playing with the grooves on the disk.
In 2008 LPs were re-released for the first time in years and sales rocked while CD sales dropped. Modern artists are also releasing new albums on vinyl.
If you've never listened to a record you need to. I promise every time you hear a new record you will remember it but you seldom recall downloading a song.
Places to find a player:
musicdirect.com for high end stuff
Target and Walmart will sell you the large fake wood box ones that have radios and play cd for $100
Goodwill, Salvation Army, and Garage Sales will get vintage models
Places to find records:
GEMM.com bid on records in great condition
Amazon, Best Buy, and Borders.com will sell you new records
Thrift Stores and yard sales which tend to be cheapest but also have no quality control
Used-Record Store some times expensive but its always an experience to go into one
