Vinyl Records are Back!

I understand why record collectors seek out old vinyl I have DJ friends that are into that. But what is this new gimmick of putting new music of records.

I saw Hot Topic selling records! LOL! And people were buying them! I find this both amusing and disheartening. Because it shows the ignorance of your average consumer. New vinyl now is produced at the same crappy quality as MP3s not great warmth of vinyl sound you find on old records so if you are buying for "sound quality" what a laugh. I guess it is another fad or gimmick set up by record companies and I would think artists would not lower themselves to such things but even artists I admire like Loreena McKennit and Brian Setzer and Sharon Jones have done this! Though I can’t say that their records have bad post-production work like most popular music as they have more control over their product.

Oi… I guess it’s just the times and I’m old except I’m not old… but trapped in these times. Does nobody care about sound quality any more?

I saw an ad from Best Buy recently that said they would give you a free turntable if you bought ten records for twenty bucks a pop! It was one of those usb turntables and I’m sure they were the new records. I didn’t go for it…..

I am writing a short essay on the pros of listening to both old and new records on vinyl. Why do YOU enjoy it, regardless of whether or not the quality is "superior"? (This question is not for people who don’t like vinyl.)

Vinyl is history, memories, time gone by and found again. My father listened to records, his father listened to records. It’s an experience – a way of discovering something just as it was. Vinyl is also new; you can listen to recent bands on vinyl for a different sound. Just the physical act of playing it, collecting it, moving the needle’s wand, watching that disc spin around and around…is an art.

Not by posting your question in the Genealogy section of Arts & Humanities you can’t.

The study of Genealogy includes records — death records, birth records, family history records — not vinyl records of music.

I suggest you re-post your question in the Other-Music section of Music in the Entertainment & Music category to obtain a better answer.

I saw that you can get quite modern record players over the internet. I was wanting to buy a record player that can convert to CD’s and things like that but from an actual shop, near Stockport England.

Just buy the CDs.

Record do sound better, but only through a turntable.

once you convert it to digital it is broken into sample bits and is compressed. Then if you apply click removal it takes away some of the sound…

In the end, it won’t be worth going through the trouble, the CDs will sound better

I can’t find any. FutureGroove is mentioned on a few sites but not on the website of the shopping centre it’s supposed to be in…

Vinyl records are an obsolete medium and so very few music stores stock any at all. As drum and bass is a relatively modern phenomenon, CD’s would be your best bet as only the oldest drum and bass recordings would be on vinyl

there are are literally 0 record or cd stores in my city, or near my city.
do you know any department or book stores that sell vinyl records NEW, not used. i want new ones so i can support bands i like, half price books only sells used ones.

i dont buy anything online, so it cant be a website, only actual stores.
i live more than 2,000 miles from so cal.

the nearest fye to where i live is over 100 miles away.

Some FYEs sell used and new records. I’ve found new records at places like Barnes and Noble and Borders before, but they only have a few.

i have really old Mozart CD’s and im wondering how much they’re worth and i’ll be selling them on ebay or/and craigslist.if u say too low amount just to get it i know your name!and i know it’s should be over $150 or over $200. remember im watching u!!!!!!!!!

Well, first of all, are they vinyl records or CDs?

For vinyl, expect about a dollar, depending on condition. Vinyl LPs are not really worth anything unless they are still in the original shrinkwrap and have never been played.