The Magic Of

[Mike]

Below is from a fanzine called the stool pigeon

https://www.thestoolpigeon.com/

not sure if is on the online bit but was posted on a blog here

where can read the full piece

interesting read

https://j-andersson.blogspot.com/2008/02/mp...k-of-magic.html

You may be able to store “thousands of albums” on your shiny device, but no fucker cares. Has anyone ever been to your home, been sat down in front of your computer and shown a folder full of files and then remarked, “Wow, where do you get them all from?” Of course not, but when people see my records for the first time, they do. This doesn’t make me a greater person, you understand; my point is that old vinyl has magical appeal. Quite aside from the fact that it sounds better (your ears are not digitised processors — they hear analogue waves of sound), each and every single piece of my black plastic has a story to go with it. I can recall where almost all of them came from. Some were bought new. Some were pre-owned. Some were found abandoned. Some were traded. Some were inherited.

Do any of your mp3 files have a tale attached? The best you could say is that some were emailed from a lover or Bluetoothed from a stranger. But you can take that file, copy and paste it over and over until your hard drive was full, and all you’d have was more identical files, precisely replicated. That’s not music; that’s a virus.

See, though I have records that were originally pressed in large quantity, each copy had its own destiny — particularly the copious seven-inch 45s. They’re the best. Those seven-inch fuckers are loud; they used to re-engineer tracks for single release so that sound spat from the grooves. They certainly don’t look imposing as albums when filed upright on a shelf (their colourful, labelled 12-inch spines teasing at the delights within), and most singles didn’t even come with picture sleeves, but it’s these small, highly-charged babies that are the most magical of all.

I pulled a 45 from a shelf just now; a sixties soul single from Ohio that would barely have been a local hit. It’s a little scuffed and has the word.....

[mischief]

"Debbie"

I had to read it for that!!! "Debbie"

good read that..

[ImberBoy]

i wish i'd said that, brilliantttttttttttttttt

[Guest rachel]

A slightly less eloquent 'why vinyl is better' statement but it still made me smile!

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[ZapatootheTiger]

A slightly less eloquent 'why vinyl is better' statement but it still made me smile!

Apart from ceremoniously smashing and burning them, that's probably the best use you could put a Ramones record to...

Edited February 19, 2008 by ZapatootheTiger