I just don't get vinyl
this entry brought to you by marilyn manson, "the love song"
It's a generational thing, I know this. I adore CDs because my music interests grew with them. So obviously I'm going to say my generation's format is the best. The only competition the CD had was the cassette tape, and the cassette tape was a piece of shit. It sounded worse than the medi before it, it was just as fragile (sure, it wouldn't melt or warp quite as fast as vinyl, but vinyl was never angrily spit out of a record player and destroyed for seemingly no reason like a cassette was), and there was never even a close approximation when it came to album artwork or CD liners. Granted, the cassette did in fact revolutionize music and the music industry once Sony introduced the Walkman. Once that was released, you could listen to anything you wanted in ways and places unthinkable in the generation before. And they were cheap and recordable, creating the "mix tape" phenomenom, which, admittedly, is all really awesome stuff for the cassette to brag about.
But to anyone going out and buying an expensive stereo and listening to it-- you know, music lovers-- cassettes were trendy and stupid. So for my generation, the adulation of the CD makes sense-- the competition was worthless (especially once the CD-R was created), and we were glad to get rid of it. I guess it makes sense that I don't "get" vinyl. It wasn't part of my musical maturation.
But, knowing this, I still can't see how someone could prefer vinyl to CD. I'm not talking about people my age who claim to prefer vinyl-- fuck those elite assholes. They don't care about sound quality, they care about hardcore credibility. No, I'm talking about people who grew up with vinyl; the musicians 8-15 years older than me who (rightly) scoffed at the cassette revolution and grew up loving vinyl, and then, once the CDs were introduced, still stubbornly clinged on. You mean you like flipping that motherfucker over every 15 goddamn minutes?
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with love from CRS @ 2:39 PM
Friday, July 01, 2005
It's a generational thing, I know this. I adore CDs because my music interests grew with them. So obviously I'm going to say my generation's format is the best. The only competition the CD had was the cassette tape, and the cassette tape was a piece of shit. It sounded worse than the medi before it, it was just as fragile (sure, it wouldn't melt or warp quite as fast as vinyl, but vinyl was never angrily spit out of a record player and destroyed for seemingly no reason like a cassette was), and there was never even a close approximation when it came to album artwork or CD liners. Granted, the cassette did in fact revolutionize music and the music industry once Sony introduced the Walkman. Once that was released, you could listen to anything you wanted in ways and places unthinkable in the generation before. And they were cheap and recordable, creating the "mix tape" phenomenom, which, admittedly, is all really awesome stuff for the cassette to brag about.
But to anyone going out and buying an expensive stereo and listening to it-- you know, music lovers-- cassettes were trendy and stupid. So for my generation, the adulation of the CD makes sense-- the competition was worthless (especially once the CD-R was created), and we were glad to get rid of it. I guess it makes sense that I don't "get" vinyl. It wasn't part of my musical maturation.
But, knowing this, I still can't see how someone could prefer vinyl to CD. I'm not talking about people my age who claim to prefer vinyl-- fuck those elite assholes. They don't care about sound quality, they care about hardcore credibility. No, I'm talking about people who grew up with vinyl; the musicians 8-15 years older than me who (rightly) scoffed at the cassette revolution and grew up loving vinyl, and then, once the CDs were introduced, still stubbornly clinged on. You mean you like flipping that motherfucker over every 15 goddamn minutes?
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