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Anecdotally my teenage cousin asked for a vinyl album of her favorite artist last Christmas. She doesn't even own a record player and doesn't own a single CD. S
by throwaway742 4y ago
Anecdotally my teenage cousin asked for a vinyl album of her favorite artist last Christmas. She doesn't even own a record player and doesn't own a single CD. She said it was about supporting the artist and that she appreciated the art. It also came with a poster.
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- climb_stealth 4y agoI do that with CDs. I like having them in my cupboard but don't actually have a way of playing them. And yes, it is a good way of supporting smaller artists.
- devnullbrain 4y agoMaybe as an alternative you can send $20 to their paypal and buy a length of PVC piping.
- climb_stealth 4y agoHah, what's the PVC piping for?
- conductr 4y agoNow this I understand! I rarely believe the audiophile explanations I usually get when I ask why buy vinyl. I personally can't usually tell a difference with sound quality (at the CD WAV vs Vinyl record quality levels) and most people that claim to I'm suspicious they haven't invested in the hardware to really extract it if it's there so I just think there's some placebo effect going on. I've also read some stats that statistically only a small percentage of people can detect what audiophiles claim to. So again, it's in peoples mind more than anything is what it seems like to me. I liken it to a high school prank where we often told kids at parties a drink was alcoholic, they acted tipsy, and we thought it was funny because it had no alcohol. Hoarding collectible art is totally my speed though, this I get - I still buy the CDs from my favorite bands, I don't care about supporting them this way because I know they make very little off of it, I just like having "the collection". I also like the chronological album listening experience but Spotify does that, so now I get CDs and toss them in a box still wrapped in cellophane.
- mnd999 4y agoYeah, 50% of vinyl is bought by people without a turntable - it’s mad.
- lukaslalinsky 4y agoPeople collect much stranger things, like sports cards. Having a physical copy of a piece of art gives many people a nice feeling.
- ChatGTP 4y agoWell often people do this to support their favourite bands and artists. I think we’ll see a lot more of this in the future because of “generated music”
- bigbillheck 4y agoI support the artist by buying their (digital) albums on bandcamp.
- ChatGTP 4y agoSure that works too, lots of younger bands where I live have records pressed, they’re quite popular merchandise.
- mstade 4y agoI have three vinyls I think, that I've never played because I don't have a player. The first one I got as a gift, and the others I bought because I liked the artwork – they're like paintings to me. I keep meaning to get a player, but I can't find one that strikes the right balance of price and aesthetics. The Bang & Olufsen Beogram 4000c has the right aesthetics but probably way too expensive. I've been trying to find one but they're hard to come by in decent condition. Probably because B&O sourced them all to do their recreation project...
- JKCalhoun 4y agoI like my Pro-Ject Debut I picked up a decade or so ago. At the time it was at the low-end of the audiophile-grade stuff.