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Reasons I buy vinyl: 1. It's a different listening experience than the "song shuffle on Spotify" that dominates now. It's more a more active and focused listen

Reasons I buy vinyl: 1. It's a different listening experience than the "song shuffle on Spotify" that dominates now. It's more a more active and focused listening experience. You put an album on to listen to that album from start to finish. 2. I want to support musicians by buying their albums. However I dont like buying digital music because it doesnt have the permanence a physical object has. I dont like spending money on what's basically ctrl-c ctrl-v files onto my hard drive. CD's are too flimsy. Vinyl has heft. 3. I'm not into the album art that much but a lot of my guests are and like to thumb through my records and look at the art. 4. I'm a hipster contrarian. When vinyl started to get too popular I started buying cassettes too

grujicd 4y ago
Records for sure beat longevity of most media. I got a 1979 record from a friend. One side was full of dust. I guess it was parked that way on record player for few decades. After simple gentle wash and dry it was as good as new! Of course, if it's scrached it's not good. And if you listen it hundred times it will degrade, but it will still work.
midoridensha 4y ago
Reasons I buy CDs and not vinyl: 2. I want to support musicians by buying their albums. However, I don't like buying vinyl because it's horribly inconvenient, and the sound quality isn't great (clicks and pops), and requires special equipment that needs too much space for my apartment. On top of that, every time you play it, it degrades the sound quality, and even handling the sleeve wears it out since it has no plastic protective layer: well-used vinyl albums are dog-eared. CDs aren't flimsy like vinyl, and will last indefinitely if you take care of them, and their album art, while about 1/4 the size of a vinyl album, has the same aspect ratio and looks like new since it's kept in a "jewel case" (except for some newer albums). On top of all this, ripping a CD into a FLAC file is easy if you still have an optical drive (you can buy a USB-connected portable one for $20). 1. It's a different listening experience than the "song shuffle on Spotify" that dominates now. I just select the album I want to hear in my music player (which has my whole library on my laptop's HD), click "play", and let it play the whole album. Skipping songs is easy if I want to do that, but nothing is forcing me to, so I usually don't, and just listen to the album start-to-finish. For some odd reason, a lot of people seem to not have the discipline to do that.

grujicd 4y ago

Records for sure beat longevity of most media. I got a 1979 record from a friend. One side was full of dust. I guess it was parked that way on record player for few decades. After simple gentle wash and dry it was as good as new! Of course, if it's scrached it's not good. And if you listen it hundred times it will degrade, but it will still work.

midoridensha 4y ago

Reasons I buy CDs and not vinyl: 2. I want to support musicians by buying their albums. However, I don't like buying vinyl because it's horribly inconvenient, and the sound quality isn't great (clicks and pops), and requires special equipment that needs too much space for my apartment. On top of that, every time you play it, it degrades the sound quality, and even handling the sleeve wears it out since it has no plastic protective layer: well-used vinyl albums are dog-eared. CDs aren't flimsy like vinyl, and will last indefinitely if you take care of them, and their album art, while about 1/4 the size of a vinyl album, has the same aspect ratio and looks like new since it's kept in a "jewel case" (except for some newer albums). On top of all this, ripping a CD into a FLAC file is easy if you still have an optical drive (you can buy a USB-connected portable one for $20). 1. It's a different listening experience than the "song shuffle on Spotify" that dominates now. I just select the album I want to hear in my music player (which has my whole library on my laptop's HD), click "play", and let it play the whole album. Skipping songs is easy if I want to do that, but nothing is forcing me to, so I usually don't, and just listen to the album start-to-finish. For some odd reason, a lot of people seem to not have the discipline to do that.