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Does anyone buy vinyl any more?

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  • ^ Do you have any links to good music being made at home? Would be interested to expand my listening ear horizons!

    Also agree with comment about background noise in shops, except in supermarkets it's sometime louder than just background noise and actually intrusive, to the point where you can't think and forgot what you went in for... oh wait :think:!
  • cdam
    cdam Posts: 358 Forumite
    ^ Do you have any links to good music being made at home? Would be interested to expand my listening ear horizons!

    Try clash music, loads of free download compilations always some good stuff (and a few you won't want to hear again in a hurry!!!) really worth it.

    http://www.clashmusic.com/
  • Ben84
    Ben84 Posts: 3,069 Forumite
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    Idiophreak wrote: »
    Just buy a turntable and re-live your youth :)

    What people see as the weakness of vinyl, I see as it's biggest strength - it's not portable. When I was younger, I'd put a few records on and listen to them. Not wander around the house doing jobs, not listen to it on the way for work, not listen to it while I'm running...just sit and listen. It was only a few minutes until the thing would need turning over, anyway - so no point doing anything else...I find it sad that listening to music as an activity in its own right has pretty much ceased to exist.

    I still listen to music without doing anything else, except sometimes drinking coffee. Headphones are great for blocking out the background noises of the house and just enjoying the music.

    Eating is another similar thing. I had visitors this weekend who were surprised we were just going to sit at the table and eat without music or turning the TV on.
  • Yolina
    Yolina Posts: 2,262 Forumite
    You can add me to the list of people who still buy vinyl :D
    I did digitise the lot (Pro-Ject turntable with usb ;) ) a few years ago so that I could have it all in portable format too. Was pleasantly surprised when I got the new Peter Murphy album earlier this year that not only there was a vinyl version, but when I received it, inside there was also a voucher for a free download of the album in mp3.
    Now free from the incompetence of vodafail
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