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To vinyl or not to vinyl?

brandonbowlingbrandonbowling Morehead, KY Posts: 28
edited September 2009 in The Porch
Im a 22 year old college student, recently joined the 10 club and I am interested in seeing what vinyl is all about. Since the cd is dying anyway, and I kind of have a love/hate feeling with buying music digitally. Any recommendations on an affordable, quality record player? Thanks in advance!
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  • Electric FeelElectric Feel Posts: 198
    Denon.
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    Craigslist. Vinyl is fun.
  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    Finding a decent record player is the easy part. It's getting the vinyl together that can be a bitch.
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  • asktheaxisasktheaxis Posts: 28
    Vinyl is nice. I feel the same way about paying to download - I like something physical and vinyl is about the ultimate physical product. It's not as convenient but is more of an experience if that makes sense. I wanted to preorder the Backspacer vinyl but to me $45 is way too much for a 36 minute album - I paid that for Live at the Gorge!
  • ZodZod Posts: 10,760
    I also refused to pay for digital downloads.

    At a minimum digital downloads are no cheaper than buying a cd. I'd rather get a physical product and make my own digital copy off it, that has no DRM and works in a regular mp3 player.

    As for vinyl. I currently use a cheap sony record player. I'd like to upgrade it one day but I don't use it often enough to warrant a 500 dollar player. Records sound awesome, and the packaging is awesome, but you can't listen to them when walking to work or driving in the car :(

    I do own all the PJ albums and some others on vinyl. I do like putting on a vinyl from time to time.
  • mixedcartonmixedcarton Posts: 64
    if you do go vinyl, you can normally find most albums on ebay. Some of the early ones you won't have to pay too much....good luck to you and your bank account on finding anything recent (minus the backspacer pre-order) for anywhere reasonable
  • Architect and BuilderArchitect and Builder Posts: 237
    Analog4life
  • OkOk Posts: 2,144
    Vinyl.
  • Evacuation RulesEvacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    Vinyl is great but it's also a major pain in the ass. I wouldn't bother. Besides, Pearl Jam vinyl sounds very similar to the CD. There is not a huge difference there. If you transfer the vinyl to digital and look at the waveform, it looks like a solid brickwall exactly like the CD. The "cheap" way of mastering vinyl is to just dupe it from the CD, and that's how Pearl Jam does it. It's really a waste of time unless you're already a vinyl collector.
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    Get a Technics 1200mk2 any you are in heaven.
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  • jammerfalljammerfall Posts: 908
    I come from the era of vinyl. I've looked forward to, and have warmly embraced every format upgrade since then. I'm not an avid collector (PJ, R.E.M., Garbage and Bob Mould are my main 12" obsessions) but vinyl is a good time.
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