Hello everyone, I hope all is well with you. Today's topic? Vinyl lp's, the record industry and musical musings in general. So recently, I bought my self a decent direct drive turntable. My daddy gave me a old Pioneer receiver and some old KLH speakers. Sounds super sweet! In my ecstasy I bought The Beach Boys Smile Sessions and Pink Floyd Dark Side of The Moon (both
new, 180 gram, collectors edition). Now, I'm all hot and bothered, slowly unwrapping my new magic music and.... There were more pops and hisses than a bowl of Rice Krispies. "Well", I declared, "This is horses**t." So, I send it all back and get new copies. Same. Hmmmm. So I got refunds on those figuring that Amazon got a bad batch. Crissy (my lady) and I went to Best Buy (FU) which recently added a big vinyl selection. It's gone. They have a little, itty bity rack that holds about 8 lp's...that's all. What little they had was on clearance. I picked up another copy of Wilco's Yankee Foxtrot Hotel (pressed by Sundazed, which makes a good product), Velvet Underground, and two Queen records. Wilco... works awesome. The others skip at least once, THEY ARE BRAND NEW. Now I'm getting upset, and look at reviews on Amazon and posts on websites and discussion boards, etc. It would appear that Universial/BMG/EMI, no longer presses their own records (if they do they hire retarded monkeys to do it). Maybe they get 7 year old Chinese girls to do it in a sweat shop, or something, but its not good. Its CRAP-OLA. Its bad enough that you put out mostly crap Mr. Record Company, it sucks that you're not making as many CD's and that I have to download my music (hate, hate, hate, hate). Ok, I get it we live in a capitalist society, and money is the name of the game. But please listen here, this is important: "
DON'T MESS WITH MY LP'S, YOU BLANKITY BLANK BLANKS."
I'm ok. So in my anger, I ordered:
Original Pressing: Sounds Great.
Ditto. This sounds much thicker than standard cd, and even warmer than my Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab 24-Carat Gold Edition. Over 40 years old, works WONDERFUL.
To top it off, I picked up:
A good CD version can go for over 100.00, the German Cd sounds like someone crapped in you earphones while listening to the LP. 1974. Gonna turn it into mp3 and dig it all night long. The almost 40 year old record sounds great.
TAKE NOTE RECORD INDUSTRY! YOU SUCK. BAD. I MEAN REALLY BAD.
You rarely promote actual artists anymore, when you do I have to download it from somewhere (what if in 10 years the computer's OS totally changes and won't recognize the music I already bought?) in the cloud or from itunes, blah, blah, blah. And very little of what you do anymore is interesting, I don't care anymore, it sucks. But there is still hope. Radiohead still makes music. So does Sonic Youth, Wilco, Mars Volta,etc. On occasion there is a newer group that is good. Check out Other Lives. Very good. Writing this I realized that I sound like my dad. I must be getting old. My hips hurt. Peace!
