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Who the fuck is buying vinyl records?
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same kind of people who buy funko pops
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The vinyl release is usually the one with the best mastering.
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>>115912274
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>>115912277
wouldn't FLAC be better than vinyl for quality
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people who want to enjoy a superior sound quality on a physical medium
tim apple can't remove your ability to listen to your music
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>>115912274
This. There is no point in buying books, music, videogames or movies in 2K23 if you know how tu use internet
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durrrrr muh audio quality
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>>115912297
If the FLAC is sourced from a CD with bad mastering, then no.
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>>115912304
>superior sound quality on a physical medium
99% of vinyl users use shitty Corsley players and only buy vinyls bc they like having a physical copy of their music retard, they listen to it once a month and then use Spotify for the other 30 days of the month
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why the fuck did it drop so heavily in the 90s? the internet barely existed then. how were people listening to music?
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>>115912410
cds you brainlet
Took over starting in the mid 80s
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>>115912410
zoomers never heard about CDs
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>>115912297
Digital lossless release master is either the CD master or the streaming platform source master, which is generally just as bad as the CD master or even worse.
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>>115912421
>>115912422
you can only play cds in the car, though. so what about when you're at home and want to listen to something?
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>>115912277
In the vast majority of cases, lord no
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>>115912429
get a CD player? lul
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>>115912448
What, just rip it out of a car? Isn't that illegal?
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>>115912429
Dude
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>>115912475
it's a troll ya dummy
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>>115912429
nice troll
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>>115912429
this site truly is dead, glad i stopped coming to this board
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>>115912437
Maybe not recent releases from popular artists with vinyl copies sold at like Target or Urban Outfitters. But discounting that kind of shit, yes absolutely
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Advantages of vinyl is the giant album covers look awesome and the limited amount of space prevented artists from going overboard with useless tracks. CDs resulted in every album needing 20 tracks to use all the space at least 15 of which were useless.
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>>115912525
Don't believe for a second that you're getting better quality out of your /mu/core from le totally independent record store and not just a storefront for some megalith distributor who doesn't care their product actively poisons you
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Posers mostly
People who feel cultured for owning Dark Side of the Moon on vinyl, putting it on display and never listening to it.
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>>115912560
What the fuck are you talking about schizo
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>>115912574
Read books
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>>115912542
learn to enjoy music imo
>>115912560
just download flacs and invest in good headphones, 10x easier then any vinyl setup
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>>115912297
Yes, but don't tell vinyldupes that. They genuinely believe their clicky and poppy deteriorating wax (sourced from MP3s) sounds better than a perfectly preserved digital master.
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>>115912267 (OP)
Well I'm in my mid 20s and do a fuckton of thrifting but with what I've heard from friends that work at record scores, a LOT of the buyers are teenage girls.
Hence stuff like 5 different color presses for Taylor Swift. 
>>115912274
Every single time. 
Like clockwork.
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>>115912267 (OP)
>buy limited release for $25
>immediately sell on discogs for $60
Honestly if you don't do this, you're retarded. The bladee drop last week waa the most recent one I did. I don't even do work to find out about these releases, I'm on email lists from shit I ordered in 2018
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>>115913862
scalping is cringe except when you do it with shit like bladee. then it's based.
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>>115912274
> exactly like those cute silly lil bobbly boys
unironically yes
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>>115913862
Scalping is only possible in the presence of a market failure and those who partake in it are based capitalists
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>>115912267 (OP)
meeeee
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picrel: ITT
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>>115912267 (OP)
Me.
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>>115912267 (OP)
I bought them because I liked the giant album art. It's been a while since I've bought one though and even longer since I've used my table. Having to turn records over or switch them on longer albums just got annoying.
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>>115912274

kek
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>>115912429
retard alert??
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>>115912274
lole, lmao even 

>>115914906
only valid reason
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>>115912429
KEK based bait
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>Be me
>30 years old
>Live with parents, virgin
>Own around 2000 CDs and 200 records, almost all music from the 50's/60's/70's
>Takes up about a third of the wall space in my bedroom

I enjoy the feeling of ownership, knowing my collection isn't tied to availability on any website. I like the album art on records and the well-researched essays and discographies in CDs. I like the thrill of hunting down hard-to-find albums and the anticipation of getting them sent to me.
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>>115912297
If the music is so dependent on perfect reproduction of every little sound, then maybe it wasn't great music in the first place

You don't need hi-fi conditions to write a great song and produce a decent rendition of it
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>>115912267 (OP)
Aesthetes. Vinyls look cool. This is the /mu/ variant of

>why buy a paper book when kindle exists
Kindle looks like ass. End of.
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>>115915016
To add, I DO NOT collect Funkos but I do have a small Amiibo collection
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>>115912308
I hoard textbooks and omnibus/anthologies of my favorite authors to prepare for the geomagnetic apocalypse
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>>115915016
>>115915068
You sound like a spoiled faggot.
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>>115912267 (OP)
my nephew is like 22, him and his friends and roommates are all really into vinyl for some reason and they put them all on the walls
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i just like having them on my shelf, they look cool
i also listen to them though and have a dedicated setup for it
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>>115912429
>so what about when you're at home and want to listen to something?
I go to my car
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>>115915109
To a degree
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>>115915150
At least you admitted it
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>>115912308
There's actually more of a reason to now than ever, because anything online can be changed or removed in any time. There are many albums that were remastered horribly in recent years that you can only listen to the horrible remasters.* I'm talking about things like muting and and erasing parts of songs, adding fadeouts where the song had a conclusive ending, and so on. I'm really glad I own a lot of those albums from before they were ruined.

*Sorry, English is my first language, but you wouldn't know it from my inability to form a sentence. I think my brain is deteriorating because putting thoughts into words is becoming increasingly challenging for me. Although it's the only language I've ever spoken I feel like I should start researching how to speak English.
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>>115915117
theyre popularity is similar to millenials collecting funko pops or boomers collecting sports cars. pure consoomerism as capitalism has stripped them of all identity beyonf consooming habits
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vinyl had a resurgence because of its aesthetic quality. the art and ritual gives it an appeal distinct from a more disposable cd packaging. vinyl is otherwise inconvenient, overpriced, and cumbersome as a format which is why it died the first time
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>>115912267 (OP)
I do 2bh
mostly because I'm a techno head and lots of releases aren't even available on the internet, just the 12" single
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"nigger"
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>>115912678
if your vinyl is clicking and popping you need to either get a new record player or new vinyl
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>>115912267 (OP)
Does this count second hand records? Because that's a huge part of collecting for the format
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>>115912456
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Me, just bought these
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>>115912308
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>>115915956
i think probably not. especially as a large portion is from used record stores and online discogs sales and stuff which i doubt is tracked. id guess 90% of vinyl sales are reselling. i have 1000+ records and ive literally never bought a new record other than directly from an artist. and everyyone else i know with record collections is the same
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>>115912267 (OP)
interesting... i thought it would have been higher in the late 00s... i remember a lot of people talking about how vinyl was making a comeback then... and the whole handlebar mustache, flannel, hipster stereotype and indie sleaze movement at the time held them in a more prominent pop cultural place than i see them as having today
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>>115916916
My collection is at least half new, but that's largely because I live in the middle of nowhere and do all my collecting online.