Same as I do now, vinyl. If you’re listening to CDs, which are digital, you may as well buy your music digitally from Bandcamp or wherever and you have no need for physical media.
CDs also suffer from bit rot so they won’t last forever, best way to keep them forever is to rip them, but at that point, again, just buy the music digitally.
Vinyl doesn’t give you the best sound quality, it can be annoying to have to flip the record over or change records, but there’s something about it being tangible, it’s a real thing, you can see the grooves, you don’t even need power to play a record. And with care, they’ll last a lot longer than a CD.
Vinyl isn’t a perfect medium, but that’s kinda what makes it so fun and special
This is exactly how I feel too. When I want to listen to a record, it’s because I want to interact with the music. I have a whole process with my record equipment, stuff to mess with etc. Turntable, preamp, EQ, amp, speakers. Each is something I can play with. Records are very physical, I can see them and feel them to understand them. It’s a very interactive medium. I actually enjoy flipping the record. And I don’t care if it doesn’t sound as good, I usually buy cheap used records anyway that have a bit of surface noise. It actually feels warm and nostalgic, I enjoy that. It’s like listening to a live recording from the 30s or something. If I want amazing audio quality I’ll just get it digitally. When I listen to records that’s not what I’m going for, I’m going for the experience. It feels more human, where a CD feels clinical and sterile. That’s not how I want to describe an album, personally.
Your point is true until you find a lot of music that is mostly accessible via CD only. I’m with you, getting stuff at bandcamp is great. But I have so much music that does not exist any other way that I got a CD player for the PC to rip the cds and find CDs at second hand market (and also, the CDs are so bloody cheap for a lot of good old music)
Same as I do now, vinyl. If you’re listening to CDs, which are digital, you may as well buy your music digitally from Bandcamp or wherever and you have no need for physical media.
CDs also suffer from bit rot so they won’t last forever, best way to keep them forever is to rip them, but at that point, again, just buy the music digitally.
Vinyl doesn’t give you the best sound quality, it can be annoying to have to flip the record over or change records, but there’s something about it being tangible, it’s a real thing, you can see the grooves, you don’t even need power to play a record. And with care, they’ll last a lot longer than a CD.
Vinyl isn’t a perfect medium, but that’s kinda what makes it so fun and special
This is exactly how I feel too. When I want to listen to a record, it’s because I want to interact with the music. I have a whole process with my record equipment, stuff to mess with etc. Turntable, preamp, EQ, amp, speakers. Each is something I can play with. Records are very physical, I can see them and feel them to understand them. It’s a very interactive medium. I actually enjoy flipping the record. And I don’t care if it doesn’t sound as good, I usually buy cheap used records anyway that have a bit of surface noise. It actually feels warm and nostalgic, I enjoy that. It’s like listening to a live recording from the 30s or something. If I want amazing audio quality I’ll just get it digitally. When I listen to records that’s not what I’m going for, I’m going for the experience. It feels more human, where a CD feels clinical and sterile. That’s not how I want to describe an album, personally.
Your point is true until you find a lot of music that is mostly accessible via CD only. I’m with you, getting stuff at bandcamp is great. But I have so much music that does not exist any other way that I got a CD player for the PC to rip the cds and find CDs at second hand market (and also, the CDs are so bloody cheap for a lot of good old music)