YOW! Now THATS what i'm talking about...thats exactly what I mweant when I said, Jeezus whatever happened to just putting on a record...you guys are so smart. Im not into all the tech stuff, all I know is that I have an 80 gig hard drive stuffed with all these weired mp3,s wmv. ss bla h blah jesus i dont know what. yea I have the 150$ Creative sound card, the klipsh speakers on my computer and all that, and it is nice to be able to just "click" Led Zeppelin, sort by name and double click on "Rock and Roll" and hear john Bonham whacking those high hats...but honestly, It is just not the same.
I also have a gigantic box of about 300 LP's (vinal) disks in the closet that I havent listened to for yeras. (not 1 scratch in the whole collection) im very proud of that fact, NOT 1!. I long...LONG... for the good ol days of looking at the record collection on the shelf, finding the name of the album...yes ALBUM not "file" of what I want hmmmm.....L L L oh there it is, Led Zeppelin, pulling that big satisfying album off the shelf, running my hand over the cover art, opening it up and seing the big glorious lyrics to Stairway to Heaven on the inside with the hermit standing there, slowly sliding my audiofile plastic sleeve anti static cover (jesus I cant even remember the name of that company anymore, any 1? the company that used to make all those extra goodies for albums?) help me out...what was that name..?) that I paid extra for, carefully slipping out that beautiful vinal disk with all those grooves, zapping it with my antistatic peizo electric gun, laying it on my precious $500 Thorens turntable, clamping the disk down to my 9 pound platter, running the velvet record cleaner over the record, making sure its nice and clean...putting that 149$ needle onto that groove, cranking up my SAE pre-amplifyer, and hearing my handmade Vandersteen, floor standing speakers, POP when the needle settles into the groove, hearing those little sshhee sheee sheeee souds as the music suddenly burst into life. John Bonham whackin those high hats...dushhh dush dush dushhh dushhh dush dush dush dushhh dushhhh ba ba ba ba ba...then JP on guitar rippin out that rifff....and knowing that in 20 minutes you had to flip to side B, which was a whole different tone and vibe and listening experience then side A....
aaaaa listening to music was a ritual, there was a processs...the albums where quircky and fragile and beautiful and CHEAP $5.99 at the local TSS store...and the music, the songs, the tracks had a flow, a sequence, it was a journey...side 2, Misty Mountain Hop...not sorting titles by name, or double clicking Led Zeppelin to get a list in alphabetical order of A to Z...sigh...im so depressed...I wis I had my old stereo so I could put on a record of Tales from Topographic Oceans...oh wait, its in the windows player under 'Y' for Yes...let me turn my computer on...its not the same...
oh, and for those of you that dont know any better, vinal records SOUND BETTER than digital files, if you think i'm wrong, then you just dont know what your talking about...
now excuse me, but I have to go defrag my F drive...
sigh....
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mmmm your a real intellectual, huh?
Anonymous Coward, dude you really need to get a life...
Yea, Bush liberated 50 million people, other then watch MTV, what have YOU done today?
YOW! Now THATS what i'm talking about...thats exactly what I mweant when I said, Jeezus whatever happened to just putting on a record...you guys are so smart. Im not into all the tech stuff, all I know is that I have an 80 gig hard drive stuffed with all these weired mp3,s wmv. ss bla h blah jesus i dont know what. yea I have the 150$ Creative sound card, the klipsh speakers on my computer and all that, and it is nice to be able to just "click" Led Zeppelin, sort by name and double click on "Rock and Roll" and hear john Bonham whacking those high hats...but honestly, It is just not the same. I also have a gigantic box of about 300 LP's (vinal) disks in the closet that I havent listened to for yeras. (not 1 scratch in the whole collection) im very proud of that fact, NOT 1!. I long...LONG... for the good ol days of looking at the record collection on the shelf, finding the name of the album...yes ALBUM not "file" of what I want hmmmm.....L L L oh there it is, Led Zeppelin, pulling that big satisfying album off the shelf, running my hand over the cover art, opening it up and seing the big glorious lyrics to Stairway to Heaven on the inside with the hermit standing there, slowly sliding my audiofile plastic sleeve anti static cover (jesus I cant even remember the name of that company anymore, any 1? the company that used to make all those extra goodies for albums?) help me out...what was that name..?) that I paid extra for, carefully slipping out that beautiful vinal disk with all those grooves, zapping it with my antistatic peizo electric gun, laying it on my precious $500 Thorens turntable, clamping the disk down to my 9 pound platter, running the velvet record cleaner over the record, making sure its nice and clean...putting that 149$ needle onto that groove, cranking up my SAE pre-amplifyer, and hearing my handmade Vandersteen, floor standing speakers, POP when the needle settles into the groove, hearing those little sshhee sheee sheeee souds as the music suddenly burst into life. John Bonham whackin those high hats...dushhh dush dush dushhh dushhh dush dush dush dushhh dushhhh ba ba ba ba ba...then JP on guitar rippin out that rifff....and knowing that in 20 minutes you had to flip to side B, which was a whole different tone and vibe and listening experience then side A.... aaaaa listening to music was a ritual, there was a processs...the albums where quircky and fragile and beautiful and CHEAP $5.99 at the local TSS store...and the music, the songs, the tracks had a flow, a sequence, it was a journey...side 2, Misty Mountain Hop...not sorting titles by name, or double clicking Led Zeppelin to get a list in alphabetical order of A to Z...sigh...im so depressed...I wis I had my old stereo so I could put on a record of Tales from Topographic Oceans...oh wait, its in the windows player under 'Y' for Yes...let me turn my computer on...its not the same... oh, and for those of you that dont know any better, vinal records SOUND BETTER than digital files, if you think i'm wrong, then you just dont know what your talking about... now excuse me, but I have to go defrag my F drive... sigh....
Very eloquently put, you guys are all so smart...
Yea, you christians are sooooo compassionate...
jeezus, man, whatever happened to just putting on a godam record.
That's quite witty, pretty funny...good for you.