Since buying a new turntable, I have been having a hard time NOT spending money on records. With the economy the way it is, who can afford spending 15+ dollars on a new CD, or risk spending 10 dollars on an album on iTunes, only to accidentally have your files deleted by a virus or some other digital catastrophy. My cure for these economic ailments, is vinyl, plain an simple. Shall we count down the reasons?
Greenliness is next to Godliness: Buying used vinyl saves it from the landfill! Vinyl and other petro made plastics don’t decompose very quickly (if at all), and with all the great music out there, it’s terrible for the environment to just throw it out and buy it new on CD.
Phonographic Phun: Flipping through records on a grey Monday is so much funner than a gluttony fest over at The Pirate Bay dot Org. It’s like cooking your own meal vs. sitting down for an all you can eat Chinese Buffet. Hell, I’ve done both, and both have their up and downsides, but for me, Flip Flip Flip beats Click Click Click any day of the week.
Cheap Inexpensive: Used vinyl can be found for pennies. While some vintage shops, and record stores can charge an arm and a leg for some hard to find stuff, your favourite golden oldies should be reasonably priced (as long as the disc is still in print, and not printed in some remote country). Sadly, a brand new copy of a new release might set you back MORE than the CD version, especially if it’s at a small shop that is competeing with HMV and the like. Luckily, it tends to balance it’s self out, if you can get some classics for loonies, then you won’t feel like such a chump spending a few bucks more on a new release.
Do I really need to say more? Well if you need some more convincing, please check out the website of my new favourite place to get LPs. http://www.aux33tours.com/ Just down the street from my apartment, it’s a refuge that’s still open on my way home from work. SCORE! If you want some more insight check out these blogs:
SevenTenTwelve – Paul Lawton of Lethbridge Alberta reviews Seven, Ten and Twelve inch records. It’s not much more complicated than that.
Vinyl Nerd – Again, pretty self explanatory
Collecting Vinyl Records – A little insight on the actual collecting of vinyl. It’s actually quite lucrative considering the diminishing nature of certain albums in their original form.
Thanks for stopping by, I will get to the actual reviews of some of the stuff I have been buying when I get a chance.
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