Post by Puck on Nov 28, 2013 13:43:24 GMT -5
Hey, all! Puck here...a friend of Bill's from the college days and fellow lover of good music!
I grew up listening to music on vinyl and cassette tapes. I would go to local neighborhood yard sales as a kid and buy records I liked for 25 cents (in hindsight, I should've just bought everything on the blanket!). It wasn't until the mid to late 90's that I went kicking and screaming into the digital age and bought my first CD. A few years went by before I even purchased a stereo that would play them (I did by a discman, though, to play the CD's I had in my car via the tape adapter, lol, and still listened to cassettes more often).
Now we're almost in 2014, and everything is digital and available for download in practically the same minute you think of the album you want. That's not to say that I don't own digital now....hell, I LOVE having my entire music collection at the ready on one device! But it's still an intangible. I like to physically hold music that I enjoy thoroughly, and a CD just doesn't cut it for me (old habits and feelings die hard haha). Cassettes just aren't durable enough, or even that fun to collect anymore, so vinyl still reigns victorious! There's just something about the warm, raw, analog sound coming from a record that a CD or download just can't reproduce...
I'm nowhere near having the huge collection that many of you own, but the stuff I do have I love immensely. And if it's limited edition, hard-to-find, out of print, etc., you're just daring me to go hunting for it.
I grew up listening to music on vinyl and cassette tapes. I would go to local neighborhood yard sales as a kid and buy records I liked for 25 cents (in hindsight, I should've just bought everything on the blanket!). It wasn't until the mid to late 90's that I went kicking and screaming into the digital age and bought my first CD. A few years went by before I even purchased a stereo that would play them (I did by a discman, though, to play the CD's I had in my car via the tape adapter, lol, and still listened to cassettes more often).
Now we're almost in 2014, and everything is digital and available for download in practically the same minute you think of the album you want. That's not to say that I don't own digital now....hell, I LOVE having my entire music collection at the ready on one device! But it's still an intangible. I like to physically hold music that I enjoy thoroughly, and a CD just doesn't cut it for me (old habits and feelings die hard haha). Cassettes just aren't durable enough, or even that fun to collect anymore, so vinyl still reigns victorious! There's just something about the warm, raw, analog sound coming from a record that a CD or download just can't reproduce...
I'm nowhere near having the huge collection that many of you own, but the stuff I do have I love immensely. And if it's limited edition, hard-to-find, out of print, etc., you're just daring me to go hunting for it.
