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“We don’t want to move [the record archive] to some museum, we want it to be accessible,” Curran told me. If not in a museum, what does it mean for records to
by dfxm12 7y ago
“We don’t want to move [the record archive] to some museum, we want it to be accessible,” Curran told me.
If not in a museum, what does it mean for records to be accessible? If you keep it physical, only a select relative few will ever access it.
Start digitizing it, then, if needed, auction off the interesting records to fund the rest of the effort.
- 0x445442 7y agoYep, reach out to this guy... jason@textfiles.com.
- mtnGoat 7y agowho is this guy?
- lubujackson 7y agoJason Scott, he works for Internet Archive now but previously did (and still does) a ton of work preserving old tech garbage, from weird-format disks, shareware CDs, manuals, old magazines, flyers, ads and everything else.
- bmj 7y agoYou are assuming that the music is the most important thing. It very well may be, but part of the culture around vinyl is, I think, the actual physical product, particularly the art that accompanies the vinyl. Add to that the DIY ethos that drives the punk scene, and those physical artifacts become even more important.
- dfxm12 7y agoYou are assuming that the music is the most important thing. I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. ...obviously, you can digitize album covers and liner notes. I thought that was clear. You're right, there's culture around that, but it's not important to physically touch it to experience it. Saying "you just had to be there", "you have to listen to this pressing of the record", "you must hold this in your hand", etc. is playing gatekeeper, which is antithetical to punk and DIY.
- barbecue_sauce 7y ago> it's not important to physically touch it to experience it Why not?