I need someone to explain what's so great about PJ vinyl

Cosmo · August 2008

wolfbear wrote:

I'm from the same era. There really is no comparison to listening to a lp on headphones. I gave away all of our old lps and I'm sorry now. You just can't get the depth, is the only way to describe it. A cd is clearer but you don't get the feeling, if that makes any sense at all.

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You don't know how many years of my youth were wasted listening to records on headphones. The Beatles (the Acid Years), Pink Floyd, Emerson, Lake and Palmer...
I still have a lot of my old LPs... but, they are in terrible shape. A teenager in 1972 couldn't afford much of a stereo system from his $1.65 minimum wage job at the 'Pup and Taco'. All those hours on that shitty record player were not kind to my records.

supa_scoopa · August 2008

You're so warm...oh, the ritual...when I lay down your crooked arm...

SENROCK · August 2008

mitchmoore2 wrote:

So I really want to understand the vinyl craze. I have have a vinyl record player (although its a very cheap one with not the best speakers) and i have some vinyls records that I play on it from time to time just for fun. But I don't understand what's so great about it. Maybe its my speakers or the player but I don't think it sounds that great. Someone help.

theres this certain scent when you remove an album from the paper sleeve. Its nice and refreshing and even MORE SO when its a PEARL JAM album! And the SOUND is just spectacular. You hear little things on vinyl that you dont hear from a cd or anything else. True freakin story!

zenith · August 2008

besides that authentic sound, my best memories of really growing up with vinyl ... hit the store, find the album on the latest display, pick it up with a smile, pay & rush home, take it out of the sleeve and pop it on, settle down to listen and pour over all the art, words, & lyrics inside. I used to get a huge kick out of the art, and at the time it wasnt so much the sound that drew me - id always buy albums instead of cassettes really because of the artwork. Its only now after so long listening to crystal clear cd that i appreciate that crackle of a vinyl.

i still have a lot of my old albums - no pj except for 10c xmas singles :( i started buying cd's around the time of ten - but a lot of old metallica, and i even inherited a lot of my older brother's collection (yellow brick road, um? some other shit, will have to look in the box)