vinel or cds?

people take music wayy too seriously.

 

Music is more than what meets the eye and ear. It has the power to do anything....

 

Vinyl is alright. There are alot of unforseen problems though, that few know about. Sound distorts when cutting a record, and again when making the master print for the factory. Also, the master gets fucked up after a while, from so many printing runs. Making wax is a bitch, because it takes so much time in the studio to fix everything so it does'nt sound like shit on your record player. Really though, if you can get one of the first thousand prints in mint condition, the sound is spectactular, far surpassing the compact disc.
I'm really surprised though, that more people are'nt buying the other records. Not the neil diamonds and barry manilows(which imho are'nt too shabby) but stuff before that. Here in florida, there are tons of old people dying. Well, they have all these records from the 30's-50's that people throw out(after they die), that so many people ignore. Tons of exotic lounge music, space age pop, swing, bebop, percussion, erotic organ, and classical. It's really ashame, because most of this stuff is'nt even on tapes or cd's. It's like you're taking a whole generation of amazing music and flushing it down the drain. But hey, w/e. I still, like so many others, prefer vinyl.

 

Speaking of vinels,..... I went to Santa Barbara the other day where they have a lot of cool/used music stores.

We went in like 4 stores and I asked the management each time if they had the box set (cds) to the orignally Woodstock in '69. Everyone told me no it was out of print.

One store had the used records, but it was $200! And if you don't have very uch income at all,... you tend to not fork out 200 bucks, because then you won't have any money for meals!

I finally when to a chain music store and they had the cd box set, but the one they had didn't seem like it had everyone who I knew for sure performed there! SO,...long story short I went without it. Just wanted to share that.

 

Don't forget the dozens of bizarre choir and exercise albums! (I see Smelly Hairy Hippie has covered the Barbra Streisand. I bought Neil Diamond's The Jazz Singer for 99c, I'm not a particular fan, but it was in mint condition and decided I could always trade it.

Freed by Peace, If you have a record player I recommend running a search on google or Yahoo like "Woodstock Box Set Vinyl" or "Woodstock Records" or things to that effect. A lot of record stores have websites that list their entire stock on text files online. That's how I found the Candy soundtrack, at lastvestige.com. I've actually seen the records in some places.

TortheViking, I really agree with you. When music means everything to you (and it sure as hell means everything to me) you begin to care about vinyl and CDs. I think Vinyl sounds more like music. Well that doesn't sound right but it is to say it's more of an experience. Everything from the drop of the needle to watching the record spin. It sounds amazing, better than CDs (and that's a fact, I'll find you the info if you want it) Not to mention extrordinarily cheaper, if you don't collect first print autographed copies of Rubber Soul, you could get any album for a pretty good price. I never paid over 20 dollars for a record. I've paid over 40 dollars for a CD. I spent 12 dollars on the vinyl white album and 38 for the CD. Oi! I shoulda waited a few months.
Anyway, records rock.

 

how much are record players usually nowadays?

 

new ones usually go for $100-200 unfortunatly, i recomend looking in resale shops and garage sales especially, at my neighborhoods last garage sale, i bought 2 old time stereos for free. i had also seen 2 more record players in pretty good condition as well as an 8 track player which i picked up for $2 cause they sell 8 tracks at my record place Record Breakers