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Really really really missing the point! Firstly I'd object to your statement that you have to buy a lot of stuff to get into it. Record players aren't expensi
by rwmj 1y ago
Really really really missing the point! Firstly I'd object to your statement that you have to buy a lot of stuff to get into it. Record players aren't expensive, and vinyl is also cheap (and don't look on ebay, go to your local thrift stores / charity shops -- or even better, your parents' house). Secondly the physicality isn't somehow the friction of associating music with a physical object, but the actual experience and sound of a record playing. You won't get this unless you do it, often, with wonderful music, so it's hard to describe.
You're right, that it is a lot of stuff. I'm looking now at 6 shelves filled with records. That definitely doesn't work for people in small apartments.
- ttoinou 1y agoIm only criticising the use of the term asceticism here… of course I know the experience and sound is different
- simpaticoder 1y agoAsceticism is a term, like "large" or "small", that only has meaning relative to some standard. Relative to "hear whatever I want from the entire history of recorded music right now using a single cheap device", the act of playing a physical format on a complex assortment of devices you integrated is relatively ascetic. Hence the softening of the term with "middle path".