Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger (Post 505914)

There seems to be a new found love-fest for all things vinyl over the past couple of year.

Count me out please.

Frankly I was glad to see the back of it. When I first started working part time as a kid in the late 80s CD's cost double , sometimes almost triple what it cost to buy the same album on vinyl , so naturally with my minimal part time schoolboy wages buying CDs wasn't an option. I could have bought cassettes but they got lost & chewed up easily so vinyl I was forced with for a few years. They were big , bulky , impractical and sounded like shit after a few months of being exposed to a teenaged me.
As far as I was concerned getting my first CD player (In 1991) couldn't come quick enough and when I did all my vinyl was quickly shut away in my parents shed where it remained for the next 16 years untouched before being thrown away. That's just how much I missed it.
Music should be heard and quite honestly i'd take CDs or MP3s over vinyl anyday. I don't buy this argument that somehow buying a vinyl copy makes it more authentic. I want music in a format where I can listen to it with ease whenever I please , I don't buy it to make it look pretty sitting on a shelf.
It's been said that vinyl has a superior sound quality than a CD. Well , I've been having my eardrums assaulted by Motorhead since the age of 5 , it makes absolutley no difference to me whatsoever.
Vinyl - Nice to look at , but for me totally useless and outdated.

Originally Posted by Crowe (Post 506132)

I also love shopping for vinyl... crossing your fingers to find that rare album, that weird find that you love... bargaining - appraising the quality of the record. It's a hobby. Vinyl is beautiful.

Originally Posted by right-track (Post 506108)

I actually liked Tenacious D for a period of time...then it swiftly passed. Urban's right, he's an irritating twat.

Originally Posted by Crowe (Post 506132)

It's fun to collect, they don't JUST sit there and look pretty - and sitting down to listen to a record is an event... not like plugging in my iPod etc, etc.

Originally Posted by sweet_nothing (Post 506264)

I total agree on Tenacious D, these 2 are your typical fat creepy guys in theyre 30’s that are still waiting for their band to ‘take off’ the kind that hang out at your local record shop and Guitar Center, they have the sense of humor and lyrically skill of a 3rd grader and listen to "Target" Metal bands like AC/DC Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.............that's pretty much them.