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It always amuses me, first, when I tell people vinyl is my primary choice, and their subsequent confusion. Which of course, we all go through in here.But then when they ask "Where do you still find vinyl?", and I tell them of the used market. This seems inconceivable to them.
It must be lodged in most of a generation's heads, that vinyl was ALWAYS horrible. Has everyone been brainwashed by the time-life commercials or something? Why is noise the first thing that is always mentioned? They really can't seem to understand used can be MINT, or nearly. And they seem to have no recall of the, likely, great percentage of very clean records they once owned. It seems to be only those few noisy ones they remember.
The ratio from my high-school era records, now 30+ years old if bought new, is about 90% in great shape, 98% playable, 2% taking up space. Was it so much worse for all the digital converts?
I get very few opportunities to play a clean record for any of these forgetful people. I don't necessarily want to convert anyone, I just want some of them to REMEMBER what it was like, and what it was NOT like.
Well, let them have their cd's. More records for us.
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Topic - About used records - people's reactions - kjd03842 13:39:04 09/08/06 (55)
- For most ppl. CDs sound better. - kuma 00:04:33 09/09/06 (0)
- Re: Be honest with yourself: buying used ANYTHING is a crapshoot * - .Guy 22:06:41 09/08/06 (21)
- Hey troll, why do you start each of your innocuous subject - HenryH 07:02:34 09/09/06 (0)
- Being a Jerk complicates everything. - Fred J 01:35:20 09/09/06 (19)
- Fred, come away from there - OMalley 05:21:48 09/09/06 (18)
- You mean the Tull where the picture looks like it was taken last week? ;) (nt) - Bry 12:31:31 09/09/06 (1)
- yeah! [snicker] [nt] - OMalley 15:30:16 09/09/06 (0)
- Re: Fred, come away from there - Fred J 06:05:33 09/09/06 (15)
- yes and no Obi-wan - OMalley 06:30:40 09/09/06 (14)
- Clumping... - tketcham 08:03:26 09/09/06 (13)
- Re: Clumping... - blake 17:46:24 09/09/06 (2)
- Re: Clumping... - tketcham 22:24:19 09/09/06 (1)
- Re: Clumping... - blake 23:08:18 09/09/06 (0)
- AQ brush wet clumping: my solution - ParloFax 09:08:09 09/09/06 (0)
- sounds like that might work - OMalley 08:18:09 09/09/06 (8)
- RCM's suck... - tketcham 08:35:34 09/09/06 (7)
- Re: RCM's suck... - blake 17:34:53 09/09/06 (1)
- Good points. That Electrolux of mine is going on 23 years old and still runs like a champ. nm - tketcham 22:27:29 09/09/06 (0)
- i am so cheap - OMalley 09:28:59 09/09/06 (4)
- So was I until I wasted $75 on Orbitrac stuff. Went from cheap to chump... - tketcham 10:55:27 09/09/06 (3)
- it is a rip off - OMalley 11:14:08 09/09/06 (2)
- Now I feel better. A $75 plastic brush case. '-) nm - tketcham 11:33:18 09/09/06 (1)
- very trendy - OMalley 15:29:08 09/09/06 (0)
- the quality issue - raphsdad 21:26:28 09/08/06 (2)
- More on the quality issue - raphsdad 21:37:23 09/08/06 (1)
- THAT is cool! They are the ones who are mad. nm - tketcham 22:04:23 09/08/06 (0)
- If vinyl was still a major player in music "software" this discussion... - tketcham 18:09:48 09/08/06 (7)
- Re: If vinyl was still a major player in music "software" this discussion... - blackdog 21:43:06 09/08/06 (1)
- It would be an interesting "back to the future"... - tketcham 21:50:51 09/08/06 (0)
- speaking for us, you say you do not - OMalley 20:18:53 09/08/06 (4)
- Speaking for myself, and I am unanimous in this... - tketcham 22:02:11 09/08/06 (3)
- Same here. - hcman 15:10:10 09/09/06 (0)
- With you 100% - Dogface1956 12:32:32 09/09/06 (0)
- agreed - blackdog 05:56:27 09/09/06 (0)
- "Brainwashed" is a good word for this - beto 17:23:56 09/08/06 (0)
- Re: About used records - people's reactions - Craiger56@aol.com 17:20:12 09/08/06 (0)
- Re: About used records - people's reactions - Michael N 15:36:54 09/08/06 (1)
- Re: About used records - people's reactions - Dogface1956 12:20:07 09/09/06 (0)
- Re: About used records - people's reactions - pass the peas 15:34:22 09/08/06 (5)
- "Your records sound fine, mine are full of ticks and pops". - hcman 16:39:03 09/08/06 (4)
- Re: "Your records sound fine, mine are full of ticks and pops". - JimL 19:17:34 09/08/06 (1)
- You made my point before I did... - powermatic 21:14:32 09/08/06 (0)
- "Mine are full of ticks and pops"..... therefore ...... - J.D. 17:07:37 09/08/06 (1)
- Hey now... - mrr 17:18:56 09/08/06 (0)
- think you're in the minority ... rant - J.D. 15:33:27 09/08/06 (8)
- "Give any one species too much rope... - KellyG 22:01:33 09/08/06 (0)
- well, yeah - Bruce from DC 17:41:03 09/08/06 (0)
- 90% estimate may be a little high, and I'm sure if - kjd03842 17:29:18 09/08/06 (0)
- and that mindset - OMalley 16:31:22 09/08/06 (0)
- I'm afraid the future's going to be... - Biff 15:52:44 09/08/06 (0)
- I'm hip... - pass the peas 15:39:28 09/08/06 (2)
- Re: I'm hip... - J.D. 16:41:54 09/08/06 (1)
- "Whaaaat's loooove gotta do, gotta do with it?" - Fretless 18:54:36 09/08/06 (0)
- Re: About used records - people's reactions - MattC 14:50:39 09/08/06 (0)
- Don't worry about it - mishmashmusic 14:44:25 09/08/06 (0)