Tristan_Geoff

I gotcha fam. I only buy used CDs (and maybe vinyl one day) from the used Books and Music store next to the college campus in Raleigh. I even have their shirt.

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Got a turntable as a gift but still can't be arsed to actually buy vinyls. I'd just rip them and listen to the mp3s anyway.

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Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

My player has that function but I've never been bothered to use it. Way easier to just download the FLAC or mp3 file.

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grindy

Exactly.
Which makes vinyls basically useless to me.

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Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

There's just something about playing vinyl that feels a lot nicer to me. Obviously convenience wise digital is the way to go, but once you get into vinyl it becomes an addicting hobby.

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grindy

I just dont care for owning some **** basically for the sake of it being pretty and stuff. I'm all about the practicality. Call me outerspaceboy.

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Paedantic Basterd

I own like a thousand CDs that have no value and no purpose. I've even tried to RE-purpose them but "coasters" is the only cool idea I found and who the **** needs a thousand coasters? So they sit in boxes on the floor of my room.

innerspaceboy

Vinyl isn't for everyone. And practicality has never been in its vocabulary. It requires an immense commitment in terms of storage space, equipment (f*ck you, Crosley), time, and money.

But that's part of its fetishism. You devote yourself to celebrating the format and form relationships with eccentric gurus of specialized knowledge, (and become one yourself in the end). You find community with fellow collectors and share stories of holy grails discovered in the wild - music never released digitally. You enjoy the participatory experience of tracking down a rare or elusive album, investing in it, organizing it into your collection, removing it from its dust jacket, placing it upon your TT, cueing a track, lowering the needle to the groove, and dedicating a sacred room of your home to the sole task of listening to your music.

It adds incredible significance to the musical experience which vinyl collectors contest that one can never parallel with FLAC. Despite digital's objective superiority in nearly every category, vinyl is simply more satisfying for some listeners specifically for the reasons I've described above. It is the imperfections of the medium which lend it its desirability, sometimes right down to the characteristic "warmth" (which is actually just harmonic distortion) and the pops and crackles of a disc passed down through generations.

But it isn't for everyone. And that's okay.

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Chula Vista

It was for the longest time though. Between the late 60s and early 90s all I listened to were LPs. And I only switched over to CDs because our cellar apartment flooded and my entire record collection was ruined.

The other reason was most of the early CD releases sounded terrible. Mainly because the music industry, in a rush to flood the market, weren't taking the time to remaster from the original master tapes used to cut the albums.

By the 90s they started doing it right. It was really common back then to toss out your original CD as soon as a remastered version would be released.

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Justthefacts

To add to some of your guys' points, I own over 200 CD's, and at some point I am transitioning to vinyl, but the integrity I get from my cd shelf is repulsive (considering how many thousands of dollars I've dropped on them) yet CD's are quickly dying out it seems and all of a sudden it's groovy to own vinyl again. I guess my question is how did that happen? Vinyls making this huge comeback and in fact becoming a bigger platform than streaming services believe it or not. Have hipsters invaded our lives so much they've made record players a thing again?

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