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

(gets off soap box)

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

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

hip hop bunny hop

Vinyl:

The Ventures - Ventures in Space
Ancestors - III
Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Bolt Thrower - In Battle There is No Law
Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner
Conqueror - War.Cult.Supremacy
Chuck Mangione - Fun & Games
Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody
Ancestors - III
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather

...but I've tapes I value more than any of these. Proclamation's "Messiah of Darkness & Impurity", especially.

Good call on the Pestilence, Om & Cryptopsy.

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