#collecting vinyl

[audio-luddite]

Busy Weekend.

Only listened to Ms Swift's new album for the Granddaughter. She is a 7 year old swifty. I gotta say that woman gets a lot of mileage out of failing relationships. T.S. is exactly the same age as my older daughter who is the mother of our mini-swifty. I wonder how T.S. would do with having kids? Lots of material there I assure you.

It was a family duty weekend. It is a bit of a strain, but love makes you do hard things sometimes. Her little team won their soccer game too. Busy weekend for us to free her parents some time to breathe.

Why the F am I talking about this....

Hey its my story.

The only other audio thing I did was looking around for good jazz albums. First looked at one of those list things for best or most important. Turns out there are a couple of those buried in our vinyl archives I just have to find them. Downstairs they are packed pretty tight in the old IKEA shelf. I know I have that Keith Jarret Koln concert, and a couple Herbie Hancocks.

And of course there are one or two that I was shopping for. I did a lap through a record store (a real one with racks) and yes online. Looking for Dave Brubeck's "Time Out". Lots of old Columbias listed in Discogs, but I am hoping for an Analogue Productions copy. Not cheap, but out there to be had. I have listened to it on Apple Music and every tune is familiar. I get in "collecting" mode. You know where you need to complete the set or die. I really have to watch myself.

I go through this process and try to remind myself about the good music versus good sound dichotomy. The best experience is when you get both. Get only one and you feel there is a hole to be filled. Do I like the music enough? I really enjoy the Getz / Gilberto LPs as most of the music is not familiar to me so has a freshness to it. Interestingly in the record store I ran into two Stan Getz "Samba" records. I did not buy them.

Vinyl is cool. I am constantly aware of how really primitive the concept behind it is. I mean squiggles mushed into plastic making sound, come on! I am intimately aware of the difficulty in extracting the information, and amazed it works so damn well.

I have old Video tapes of my kids growing up that the machines needed to play them are no longer made. My father made 16mm home movies of me and my siblings growing up. They are now lost. I have LPs recorded before I was born (or very soon thereafter) and I can play them with ease. Technological progress leads to loss more often than not.

Those space probes Voyager 1 & 2 have a "Golden Record" on it that if found by clever enough beings can be played with a needle.

V 1 will approach a star system in about 40,000 years.

So even if we destroy ourselves the last remnant will be a record with grooves in it.

Talk about free association!

[queeresthellhound]

Because polls get the most engagement I’m making a poll lol

(For the sake of this poll: a collector is anyone who *currently has* a collection of things either physically or digitally that they intentionally acquired which can be grouped together)

Please please please please pleeeeeeeaaaaaaase tell me what you collect and optionally why!!!! (This is doubly true if your collection is related to a regulatory/“special” interest!!!!!!! That’s honestly the only reason I’m making this poll, I am begging youuuuuuuuuuu

Neurodivergent related tags are for reach as I know a lot of neurodiverse people are collectors. I do try my best not to clutter those tags, if anyone has an issue with it please tell me and I’ll remove them

[killieweegie]

Love this ❤️

[eightiesfan]

Still browsing...

[its-where-the-wild-things-are]

[konigsblog]

Loser/Nerd!König mood board. You can't tell me his apartment wouldn't be a literal mess. This is why he needs you, Mauschen! You can't leave him, he needs you for his own mental sake (and for you to jerk him off while he's distracted playing video games, determined to win another match. Oh, and to bring him something to eat...)

He has posters of his favourite bands, plenty of comics and various magazines laying around with the pages practically glued together in his thick, creamy, and pearly semen. What? What do you expect him to use when you reject him?!

He has books laying around all over the place, the covers scuffed and damaged from being left out only for him to kick underneath his bed and forget about. Oh, and don't forget the countless Dr. Pepper, Monster and Fanta cans laying around!

[ladelnet]

[coolthingsguyslike]

[fancypantsrecords]

Alkemie - Pentiment Original Soundtrack | Obsidian Entertainment | 2023 | Gold

[daddysmusicblog]

[berengenita]

Cathory.

[killieweegie]

This 👆

[elizabugz]

[eightiesfan]

Browsing...

[its-where-the-wild-things-are]

[amy-lerma]

Part of my collection

June 2022