Bushbr89

I personally prefer vinyl for a number of reasons.

for one, it turns simply listening to music into more of an experience. anyone can pop in a CD or download an album and then simply forget it's playing and go on doing something else. With a Vinyl there is a bit more of a ceremony or procedure (for lack of better terms)
You choose the album you want to listen to. carefully slide it out of the case. gingerly place it on the turn table. press play and drop the needle. then after a while you flip the album and restart the process.

I may be romanticizing the process, but such is my way.

Also i like the fact that if you have a first pressing, or at least a very old album, it's almost as if you are holding a piece of history. that record has lived and survived through time and remains unchanged, a good metaphor for the music itself.

And a vinyl is the recording that the artist originally wanted for that piece. All this digitization and remastering of classic albums i feel is tainting the true art of the music. music isn't pure and clean and exact. Music is raw and dirty and more natural then all this over production allows nowadays.

but maybe it's just me

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Cuthbert

I've got a load of vinyls.

David Bowie - Everything up until Black Tie White Noise, except for his debut which was crap.
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Saturday Night Fever
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Kate Bush - Never For Ever
The Strangers (several)

Got more but those are the only ones I like.

porkchop

I have those, they sound great on vinyl.

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Norg

I don't see how that's any different then a CD

u carefully take it out of its case u put it in your CD player and press play ....

I could walk off with my vinyl player playing just has easy has a cd player .......

plus the most important thing u can also take that cd and put it on your Ipod and take the music with U in the car esp nothing beats Jammig to music in your car while driving

Burning Down

What? LOL. You don't press play with vinyls - you just set the needle in the groove to start it. And turntables are not terribly portable, so you can't take them jogging or whatever like with an iPod. Or a discman.

You know what vinyl records look like, right?

peace_sells

I don't think you have the right to compare since you've never experienced both the sides..right? A lot depends on the turntable that you choose..if you buy some turntable meant mainly for scratching (ones that DJs use) then the listening experience is nothing great..It only when you get hold of some really good audiophile (technics, rega, etc) that you truly understand what it feels like..every music format has its + and -..obviously one should listen to vinyl in a relaxed state..not when you're in office or something!

peace_sells

I've just started my vinyl collection..started about 7-8 months ago..the ones that i got hold of recently :

Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing
Om - Advaitic Songs
Agalloch - The Mantle
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow
Cryptopsy - None so Vile

ladyislingering

a few of my valuable favorites..

Sparks - "Beat the Clock" 12" extended (yellow vinyl); "Tryouts for the Human Race" 12" extended (orange vinyl); "Introducing Sparks" LP (red vinyl - I also have one in black); "Hello Young Lovers" LP (pink vinyl); "Two Hands/One Mouth" 12" (picture disc) - thanks (Ki), sweetie!

Jefferson Airplane - "Surrealistic Pillow" - fairly common but the copy I have has its original inserts and it's basically in NM/NM- condition

Vanilla Fudge - S/T - same condition as above; terrific vinyl - it was such a steal.

Justin Hawkins/British Whale - "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us" 7" single (clear/transparent vinyl)

I'll probably be back later with more but I'm a sucker for Mint/NM/NM- quality vinyl, colors, and picture discs.

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Charlemagne

I don't have a lot of vinyl yet, but here are some of my favorites that I do have.

Andrew Jackson Jihad - Can't Maintain (Clear/Gray Marble Vinyl)
The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten (Blue Vinyl)
Into It. Over It. - Twelve Towns (Red Vinyl)
Destroyer - Rubies (Deluxe Edition, two disk White Vinyl)
Elliott Smith - Either/Or Alternate Versions (7inch)
Defiance, Ohio - The Great Depression
Paul Baribeau - Unbearable
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.

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TLP

Bought my first few records the other day.

The Velvet Underground — The Velvet Underground & Nico
Weezer — Pinkerton
Weather Report — Heavy Weather
The New York Dolls — Too Much Too Soon
Miles Davis — Kind of Blue
Kanye West — My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy