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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
I love browsing.
plus the smell. I love the smell of records and books.
I could live in a tiny place as long as my books and records were there.
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This is after my own heart too
I tend to buy more CDs than vinyl (due to availability of stuff - ie. many releases I buy are CD-only, alas), but I do loves me still a decent vinyl release. If nothing else, the artwork on vinyl kills that of CDs everytime, I think.
On the vinyl fidelity point, I've bought some vinyl whose pressing quality is staggeringly crap (I'm thinking here in particular of some of those ESP-Disk vinyls bootlegged by Base Records), and vinyl which sounds so fucking good it's incredible...mind you, I've never been insane/dedicated enough to buy a lathe-cut records. This will piss off some people, I know, but I do contend that the CD format is actually pretty spot on for some musics (classical, power electronics, "drone" being some examples that come to mind). What do others think on this point?