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07/14/09
We did have a sweet little "portable" 8 track player with speakers that popped out of the side. I was crushed a few years back to discover that my parents had stored all of their 8-tracks in the garage, where the Oklahoma summers had melted them into faded plastic cases filled with cooled brown ooze.
The complete collections of Earth, Wind, and Fire and Jim Croce...gone! Gone!
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Please tell me someone else got that reference.
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Pete Townshend: "The whole conception of Quadrophenia was geared to quadraphonic, but in a creative sort of way. I mean I wanted themes to sort of emerge from corners. So you start to get the sense of the fourness being literally speaker for speaker. And also in the rock parts the musical thing would sort of jell together up to the thunder clap, then everything would turn slowly from quad into mono and you'd have this solid sort of rock mono ... then a thunder clap and back out again. We spent months mixing it and then found out that MCA was using the CBS quad system and ... you might as well forget it. So our engineer remixed it in the same manner that it was mixed in stereo, the same sort of creative approach."
From here: http://www.quadrophenia.net/album/album.html
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RIAA: Hey Best Buy - push vinyl - it's too hard for people to rip their tracks.
BB: But why would anyone want vinyl today?
RIAA: Tell them it's for audiophiles - the consumers eat that crap up.
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does anyone have any recommendations or tips on how to get started? i know next to nothing about record players, but do have a decent receiver and speakers.
04/27/09
Step 2: Book ticket to NY and go to Bleeker Bob's.
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Dancing On The Ceiling by Lionel Ritchie;
Aqualung by Jethro Tull;
Between The Lines by Janis Ian;
Diamond Dogs by David Bowie.
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04/27/09
They're going to destroy what they're capitalizing on. They'll get 2 maybe 3 years out of it.
When the cult niche sees big business catering to them they're just going to go after something else.
I actually read a saying like that once. I don't remember it exactly but the gist was once the NYT covers your scene its already on its deathbed.
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Eh, I'd say that even if the growing trend collapses, the market for LP's will remain, however small in the end. But it seems that the DJ scene is largely digital now, and that was one of the few big arenas for LP's up until recently.
04/27/09
If I'm buying zeroes and ones, why bother going to the store. Vinyl is something that iTMS can't really replicate for various reasons.
You've got to get people into the stores somehow.
(and I don't buy music anymore because subscription is more cost-effective for me)
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It is extremely memory-laden for me.
04/27/09
You don't believe that Nixon can rise from his grave? I hope one day to find bliss in such naivety.
04/27/09
I'm rather impartial to either. But vinyl is harder to maintain and store.
04/27/09
If it was produced digitally I doubt that it will sound better just because you pressed it onto a vinyl.
04/27/09
But we're largely talking about audiophiles here. Please leave your logic behind as you enter the Land of Mumbo Jumbo. The native Placeboids don't like rational thought.
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