Let's Talk Vinyl

Today I found a 2 album compilation thing for some benefit concert way back. Might I add all of it is live, too? :love:

Record 1 has:
It Don't Come Easy - Richard Starkey
Beware Of Darkness- George Harrison
While My Guitar Gently Weeps- George Harrison
Jumping Jack Flesh- Jagger/Richard
Here Comes The Sun- George Harrison

Record 2:
Wah-Wah- George Harrison
My Sweet Lord- George Harrison
Awaiting On You All- Harrison
That's The Way God Planned It-Billy Preston
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall- Bob Dylan
It Takes Alot To Laugh/It Takes Alot To Cry- Dylan
Blowin' In The Wind- Dylan
Mr. Tarabourine Man- Dylan
Just Like A Woman- Dylan

YES.
 
Theoretically, the sound quality of vinyl is better when new. The signal is analog, which means the sound wave is "drawn" unbroken on the vinyl. CRAB use digital, which is basically nurabers representing a bunch of point-samples of the music. Since the points are finite in nuraber, it can't be continuous, so is only an approximation. A very good approximation, but not perfect.

However, vinyl sound quality degrades in quality over time, as the needle distorts the grooves more and more over repeated playings. CRAB don't degrade in sound quality (at least not for many decades).

Of course, what with varying quality of needles and such, it's not a given that vinyl will sound better even when new. With a perfect needle, it should. But not much better and not for long.
 
I grew up with CRAB (just at the tail end of vinyl and cassettes being the main form of music), but I have to admit record albums are always very alluring and tempting, mostly for the huge, beautiful album art. CRAB seem a bit cheap by comparison, as physical artifacts.

But the idea of building a whole new music collection in vinyl is pretty daunting. If I became inordinately wealthy, I think buying music on vinyl would become a top priority.

Sorry, just thought I'd share my longings and fears and desires for the future.
 
I recently started my vinyl library. Every Tuesday I purchase a two LPs from my favorite artist. These are the LPs I have now.

Pretty Girls Make Graves
- Pretty Girls Make Graves
- Good Health
- The New Romance
Elliott Smith
- New Moon
- Either/Or
- XO
Sleater-Kinney
- Dig Me Out
- All HanRAB on the Bad One
- One Beat
- The Hot Rock
- The WooRAB
The Shins
- Chutes Too Narrow
- Wincing The Night Away
Sage Francis
- A Healthy Distrust
- Personal Journals
- Human The Death Dance
 
I have about 30 to 40 as well. I collect them just to have. I used to listen to them on my dad's old turntable, but the speakers stopped working and I couldn't find any speakers that would work with the turntable. Alas, it ended up in the dump. I think I might keep them for a while, and look back on them one day when I have forgotten about them.
 
Can't get enough vinyl, I just started collecting it this year. Here's what I got so far:
Beach House~Devotion
The Shins~Wincing the Night Away
A Flock of Seagulls~ A Flock of Seagulls
David Bowie~Alladin Sane
David Bowie~Changes One Bowie
David Bowie~Changes Two Bowie
Accordian De Paris
Eight Frozen Modules~Crurabling and Responding
Siouxsie and the Banshees~Hyaena
Statues~New People Make Us Nervous
Soundtrack to the Original "Shaft"
Tower of Power~Back to Oakland
Joy Division~Unknown Pleasures
Jens Lekman~Night Falls Over Kortedala
Neutral Milk Hotel~On Avery Island
Sex Gang Children~Fall
DJ Shadow~Entroducing
Tickley Feather~Tickley Feather
Mojave 3 7"
Tiny Tim 7"
Spitboy 7"
Tickley Feather 7"
Dame Darcy 7"
Kate Bush 7"
 
Here's the LPs I've picked up recently. Only a few more months and I can actually hear my collection!

Aesop Rock
- Bazooka Tooth
- Labor Days
- None Shall Pass
Fugazi
- The Argument
- Repeater
The Pixies
- Doolittle
Husker Du
- Zen Arcade
Le Tigre
- Feminist Sweepstakes
Dinosaur Jr.
- Beyond
Burial
- Untrue
Pinback
- Summer In Abaddon
Saul Williams
- The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of NiggyTardust!
 
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