Not All iPods — Vinyl and Turntables Gain Sales 405
Says the New York Times: "With the curious resurgence of vinyl, a parallel revival has emerged: The turntable, once thought to have taken up obsolescence with eight-track tape players, has been reborn."
Betamax (Score:5, Funny)
Time to get that Betamax player out of the attic!
Pfft... (Score:5, Funny)
Kids these days and their newfangled "vinyl" cheap rubbish. Give me my Bach on a wax cylinder, and then get off my long-dead lawn.
HA! (Score:3, Funny)
and now try put disk copy protection on that!
oh wait...
Wait a second.... (Score:5, Funny)
What did you expect would happen, people would start buying vinyl records, but just look at them instead of playing them? Is there some iPhone vinyl add-on I'm not aware of?
Tomorrow on Slashdot: A sudden increase in the sale of left shoes curiously correlates to a parallel increase in the sale of right shoes.
Vinyl... (Score:5, Funny)
for people who think it's not high-quality unless you can hear the artifacts of how low-quality the recording is.
Re:Vinyl... (Score:4, Funny)
back when I was young (early 2k's) I used to listen to a lot of dance music and go to the occasional rave. When I first started going to these gigs, I asked one of my friends why the DJ's used vinyl instead of CD's. She told me that, because the records are analog, you get much better quality sound. I asked a few other people and they all seemed to agree.
I was always a bit skeptical. How can you create electronic music, digitally, on computers etc and then claim that putting them on vinyl somehow magically improves the quality?
I've always thought that people buy vinyl because it's just a bit more romantic. Or they're fucking idiots.
Re:Wait a second.... (Score:2, Funny)
What did you expect would happen, people would start buying vinyl records, but just look at them instead of playing them?
Considering the pretentiousness of the people who buy vinyl, that is a possibility.
Re:Wait a second.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Vinyl... (Score:3, Funny)
rave + sound quality concerns.. several things seem wrong with that
Re:Wait a second.... (Score:5, Funny)
Correlation does not imply causation....
Re:My Reason - Loudness War (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Wait a second.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wait a second.... (Score:4, Funny)
Thank you, you left out the minorities...
People with only a left foot
People with only a right foot
People with 2 left feet
People named Jake with three legs
Re:Cue the... (Score:5, Funny)
Not until we have Vinyl ROMs.
You'll be able to get Linux distributions on them, of course. Side 1: Kernel. Side 2: Root file system. The system takes 45 minutes to boot, but the quality of the operating system and associated tools is much, much better than what you get on CD or via download. Don't ask me for evidence, because the improved quality is imperceptible unless your computer is connected up with gold Ethernet cables and your PSU is a vacuum-tube model.
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Re:Wait a second.... (Score:5, Funny)
What did you expect would happen, people would start buying vinyl records, but just look at them instead of playing them?
But if you play them you might scratch them, or get dust on them !
Any serious audiophile knows you must never get a disc out of its sleeve. It must remain in timeless perfection to be admired by like minded individuals (wearing gloves), possibly drooling a bit, while extolling the virtues of gold plated power cables.
Re:Betamax (Score:3, Funny)
Ah you young'uns. I'm going upstairs to get my imagination out of the attic!
(Yes, that's the best I could do)
Re:Betamax (Score:5, Funny)
Ah you young'uns. I'm going upstairs to get my imagination out of the attic!
(Yes, that's the best I could do)
Ha. We crowd-source our imaginations. Why think for ourselves, when we can share our brilliance in real time, peer to peer, in under 140 cha
Re:When your market is so small (Score:3, Funny)
What do you mean? RIAA of real-world numbers?
Re:Wait a second.... (Score:3, Funny)
You must be a fucking blast at parties.
...says NoPantsJim... :-D
This just in... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:When your market is so small (Score:5, Funny)
The market is really hipster douchebags. They're competing with thick-framed square glasses and retro 1980s video game t-shirts. The music industry doesn't really figure into it.
Re:When your market is so small (Score:3, Funny)
Re:When your market is so small (Score:2, Funny)
The entire domestic recorded music market is worth less than 14 billion (that's revenue btw, not profit).
So that means the thousands of artists got to split about twenty bucks, right?