I wanted to, as there is an album I would really like to get, but it starts at 8:00AM and I’m not a morning person . My local record store said people line up rather early and the line goes around the block. <yawn>
@hems79 I didn’t realize that’s not considered limited. They are already overpriced on eBay for pre-sales. Maybe I’ll check availability in my local shop when I finally awaken . Good luck acquiring the items on your list.
@heartny
Thanks man. It’ll be real tough to get two of mine. Motorhead is limited to 500
Teenage Bottlerocket is limited to 350.
/giphy Crossing Fingers
@heartny ebay around record store day is always overpriced, ESPECIALLY before. Keep an eye out if you can’t find a copy and it’ll probably drop in price on eBay after a few months.
Forgot to add my list:
Tim Armstrong - A Poet’s Life
Michael Kiwanuka - Out Loud
The Skatalites - Hi-Bop Ska
Motorhead - Heroes
Teenage Bottlerocket - Warning Device
None near me.
Goodwill has records, but it takes hours to find a decent one.
I buy 90% of my vinyl on Amazon. Just got the 2-record 180g Dire Straits Brothers in Arms and the 180g Rubber Soul in mono this week.
@daveinwarsh
I once lucked out at the Goodwill and picked up eight Beatles albums that were originals from the 60’s. 50 cents a pop.
/giphy 50 Cent Beatles
@daveinwarsh The Barnes and Noble second nearest to me has a pretty comprehensive selection of vinyl (I would say bigger than any of my 5 local record stores). Its odd, because the one nearest me has a pretty minimal selection (perhaps about 100 discs total).
@DrWorm I had no idea Barnes & Noble still have records. There’s one kinda near me & I’ll check it out. Maybe they hide the records in some far corner… Thanks
My original records I purchased mostly from '69 to '78 or so. As I was extremely careful with them and my Shure V15 cartridge & Thorens 150 turntable, many are in pretty good shape. Wish I still had my old equipment. Had a beautiful little Marantz 18, later a Phase Linear 700. My AR3a speakers lasted a long time while I added Monster sized old black Klipsch La Scala corner horns for some odd reason. I guess to be able to crank the Phase Linear up… The sound from those filled the room… lol… and the block…
My stereo equipment is much more modest now.
Thanks for the info!
I got everything I wanted but Teenage Bottlerocket. Got to the record store at 5:45am, but some suckers right after me found the two copies of it before I did.
@hems79 Wow, 5:45am was very ambitious. When I finally ventured out to the record store, the album I wanted was of course sold-out. I also asked about Teenage Bottlerocket for you, but that was gone too.
@heartny
That’s a bummer dude. I as well was looking out for you for Evanescence “Lost Whispers”. The store I went to had so many releases and sooooo many people that I couldn’t spot it.
@heartny
FYI - I’m scoping out ebay, and I’ve found a few copies of “Lost Whispers” already being sold for $30. In a few days it’ll probably in the $25 range or so.
But I am not wanting a media setup at the moment. My flat screen TV is still in the box. For personal reasons.
Perhaps someday … I would like some serious vinyl. Perhaps. If life goes that way.
One upon a time I had approx 2K LP’s, heavy on rock, soul, blues, reggae, jazz, classical.
A fire took all that while it was in storage (a rural metal building on a monitored property), as I was temp living elsewhere. Or, more likely, a thief took everything and then set a fire.
It’s cool. The loss stopped hurting so much after the first decade.
And it was arson to cover massive theft. And I knew whodunit. But no proof.
And I had not taken careful care of things and had been irresponsible and followed intuition and had done as I pleased and all that. So there were going to be losses.
Right now I’m not so into chasing the ultimate fidelity. I tried that a bit with headphones and amps, but …
At some point the fidelity quest starts taking over from the music. And people sometimes start “collecting curated musical experiences” instead of being open to accidental and raw and poorly-reproduced wonder.
I know nothing of the companies involved. And know nothing of the physical and chemical engineering and production practices and specs.
But the basic ideas behind so called “HD vinyl” look legit. And the 3D mapping of sound into a ceramic master: that mathematical process can also likely be tweaked and improved, perhaps radically.
(Which leads to amusing speculation about different and competing schools of “mathematical musical algorithm junkies”, all sniping at each other in a game of “who’s best”.)
I know nothing about the production of original recording masters.
But in the case where master recordings were analog masters, I am thinking that mathematically analog algorithms might be designed for used in the making the 3D mappings that generate the ceramic pressing master. Analog heaven, perhaps?
(Perhaps I used terms incorrectly. I don’t know most of the lingo. Apologies. I do know analog vs digital, tho.)
If it gets that far, talk about a contentious scene! Like politics or economics or education!
Just watching the industry and the consumers react to developments ought to be pretty entertaining in itself.
And if it all resulted in a much wider and more inclusive and more artist-oriented “musical scene”, calling to a kind of “industry decency and innocence”, ands very high quality reproduction, that was also consumer-friendly, well …
Didn’t bother. RSD in New York City is always a clusterfuck, and there was only one thing I really wanted anyway. (Well, two things, but I could do without the other.)
Fortunately, what I wanted is going to get a general release later, so I’m not going to have to go without.
@sanspoint I got to Rough Trade at 8 AM, made some line friends, got a free donut, and walked through the door at 11. It’s not for everyone, but as a lapsed Catholic I like a good ritual on occasion.
@gimpeyjoe Last time I did RSD, I didn’t have nearly as pleasant an experience as that. I got to Rough Trade at 7, the line was around the block, and by the time I got in, all the stuff I wanted was gone. Presumably sold to flippers who were going to put all of it on eBay.
No… but I have about 5 or 6 cases of albums I’m going to be selling soon. My husband inherited his parents collection when they passed and then he added his own to it and now he recently passed and I pretty much don’t want most of them. I don’t even know if I can remember how to turn the system on to use the turntable!
@dashcloud Hadn’t. didn’t know it existed. I’ll take a look. I actually bought my husband a usb turntable because he said he wanted to digitize them himself several yrs back. I just found it… still in the box.
I’ll check out the link. They’d have to pay the shipping tho… it’d be outrageous.
@f00l
Every year there are 300-400 releases on RSD, many of which are limited run pressings. The very sought-after titles will be gobbled up as soon as the doors open. That’s why I was at the record store at 5:45am. Even being 5th in line out of 200 or so, I still couldn’t get one record I really wanted (Teenage Bottlerocket pressing of 350 that I mentioned earlier in this thread.)
I was happy to get six out of seven that I wanted, as four of the ones I grabbed were all accounted for a minute after the doors opened.
@f00l
Here’s a few reasons why RSD is up my alley:
Some of these releases have tracks available nowhere else, and were made exclusively for RSD.
Some releases have been out of print and are re-released just for RSD.
Sometimes this is the only chance to get a particular album on vinyl. A lot of fans of these artists are (figuratively) dying for vinyl releases.
Me? All of the above. I also like spinning records at home. Some of the releases are mastered from the original sources, and the quality is much higher than CD or mp3 because of this.
@f00l it’s a hobby like anything else. I picked up a Bowie live album that has never before been officially released, but someone else in my line was very happy to get a Madonna album they could have found used for half the price with some looking around. I also bought a small press album from a musician from Ghana I’d never heard of, and that probably wouldn’t have gotten a big release in any era of music.
Speculators can ruin everything from comic books to record store day but it’s always fun to get something you love. Hopefully a few of the first timers will come back some other day and get something else!
The thing that gives me pause is the “deliberately not available elsewhere” material.
It’s one thing to stand in line overnight as I did for concert tix (Led Zeppelin, $5, 2nd row center [different world back then, no?]), because concerts are necessarily limited availability.
It’s another thing to set a deliberately rare and limited release of whatever when it’s music. Recorded music could have been released in both high quality and high quantity. No reason not to except marketing.
It makes music start to feel like some sort of $10,000 Birkin bag (if I spelled that brand right)
It’s a game I don’t wish to play.
I went thru the fidelity chase a few years ago with headphones. And the elusive “ultimate fidelity” according to some standard or whatever started to take over my listening. This made me uneasy.
I wound up giving away or selling all my fancy headphones and amps. I still have a few I think, but that’s just because I haven’t gotten around to that bit of de-cluttering yet.
Having the fancy headphones reminded me that I started loving music played on a cheapo Sears tiny kid turntable with a horrible built in speaker, playing 45’s.
And listening on AM in a car or on a transistor radio because album rock FM wasnt a big deal yet, and many cars didn’t even have FM radios at the time.
And yet the music -and my love for it - and my taste - were pretty damned decent for all that. And pretty damned decent for me being a kid in elementary school. Most of the stuff I loved then has held up fine.
Making the seeking of music into some infinitely elusive practice, esp one involving upper-class income levels and potential equipment or knowledge snobbery (or you can’t even listen to these special tracks!!!), makes me want to rely on “found music” randomly encountered.
I don’t recommend my attitudes. They’re just mine. Billions of ways to enjoy music. I hope everyone does.
@f00l five bucks is great for Led Zep, I can’t deny.
I disagree about the “no reason but marketing” to make things small and exclusive. This very site and our old one is proof of how many companies wrecked themselves by thinking a product could be limitless. The Bowie record was from a major label and a major dead rock star, so it wasn’t a risk, and I’ve heard there were tons around. The WB Album from The Residents is a thing not a lot of people are gonna want, or even recognize. Make fifty thousand of those and you’ll be stuck with them for the rest of your life, or calling up a deal-a-day site to dump 'em for pennies on the dollar. And if you’re a small label that might destroy you. Lotsa respect if you spend money on indie labels and bandcamp, though, I do as well and they certainly need it more than the big guys.
Out of curiosity, who are your top three artists from the last five years?
@f00l@slydon
One other fact to consider…
Many of the pressings are done by indie labels, who are trying to make a name of themselves, but don’t have the money to press a lot of albums.
If a special track can be had on the Amazon or Google music store or on some higher quality digital site or whatever, I’m glad if they press a limited Ed on vinyl.i don’t expect companies or artists to press vinyl that very likely won’t sell.
I have a personal quibble with the practice of releasing especially limited or HQ or expensive stuff that can’t be had for a great price on a big outlets at a lower fidelity.
When the practice becomes so that special material is exclusive to the rich and the aficionados only, to me, it’s marketing.
–
I would not even have a top three artists of the last five years because my attention went elsewhere.
At best it might be “top three newish artists I had even heard of”.
And they would be some huge ultras famous names.
No creativity or special evidence of taste or aesthetic on my part there.
I was way into things until two things happened: the local alt radio kinda died except for college stations you can’t pick up if you aren’t close to campus.
And all the commercial playlists went total computer and algorithm and record-co-deal driven. JackFM and the like. Can it get any more boring and predictable that that?
Well, I could have gone discovering with Sirius.
But the prob with Sirius is that they run Stern, who is such a huge temptation for me that when I am listening to Sirius, I am almost certainly listening to Stern.
And the other thing was that starting in the early 1990’s unabridged audiobooks started to happen.
Even 20+ hour books on cassette (sometime 25-50 cassettes for a book) were wonderful. I became addicted. Then along came audible. And podcasts of increasing quality. And I own far more audiobooks than I will ever listen to. And am subscribed to a residue number of podcasts I pay attention to depending on whim.
And thats where my listening went. To spoken word content. Many hours per day.
Often as not, when I listen to music I don’t already know nowadays, I just aim for “something Mozart” or some old Delta blues.
That’s not all that often.
One the radio died as a good source, I kinda discovered you had to be plugged into a “scene” (college, friends), or really really work at it, or you never heard about new things.
I don’t have kids. So no teenagers kick me to wake up my head re new things.
This is a kinda sad lack.
I miss knowing and hearing new stuff. I miss the days I used to chase certain artists around Manhattan from venue to venue.
I suppose I miss being young.
But the digital life has changed all.
One you had to go out to find out things. And since what you had at home were tv, books, and family, people went out. And found new things.
Now we all stay tethered to the net, but also stuck, a bit, in our little corners. My current corner might be books and audiobooks more than other things.
Re current big names
When I hear someone interview Keith Richards about the modern musical scene (the interviewer usually only asks about the super-famous), I find that KR’s intuitive take is not that different from my very uneducated one. Given that he knows Much and that I know Nothing, we seem to be kinda on the same page.
Not surprising. The Stones provided much of my education that they forgot to cover in class at school.
I might have a bias. Or an imprinting there. Might.
While I still have my original collection of LPs that I accumulated through my teenage years (approx 250 discs?), I have yet to re-enter the fray of purchasing them since their resurgence.
However, I have found myself pouring through the crates of merchandise in my local record shops. There is something enjoyable about that activity that was never quite the same with CDs (nor, obviously, MP3s.)
I wanted to, as there is an album I would really like to get, but it starts at 8:00AM and I’m not a morning person
. My local record store said people line up rather early and the line goes around the block. <yawn>
@heartny What are you interested in getting?
@hems79 Evanescence “Lost Whispers”
@heartny The good news is that it’s not extremely limited, there are 2,500 pressed. You still might be able to get a copy.
@hems79 I didn’t realize that’s not considered limited. They are already overpriced on eBay for pre-sales. Maybe I’ll check availability in my local shop when I finally awaken
. Good luck acquiring the items on your list.
@heartny
Thanks man. It’ll be real tough to get two of mine. Motorhead is limited to 500
Teenage Bottlerocket is limited to 350.
/giphy Crossing Fingers
@heartny ebay around record store day is always overpriced, ESPECIALLY before. Keep an eye out if you can’t find a copy and it’ll probably drop in price on eBay after a few months.
Forgot to add my list:
Tim Armstrong - A Poet’s Life
Michael Kiwanuka - Out Loud
The Skatalites - Hi-Bop Ska
Motorhead - Heroes
Teenage Bottlerocket - Warning Device
None near me.
Goodwill has records, but it takes hours to find a decent one.
I buy 90% of my vinyl on Amazon. Just got the 2-record 180g Dire Straits Brothers in Arms and the 180g Rubber Soul in mono this week.
@daveinwarsh
I once lucked out at the Goodwill and picked up eight Beatles albums that were originals from the 60’s. 50 cents a pop.
/giphy 50 Cent Beatles
@daveinwarsh The Barnes and Noble second nearest to me has a pretty comprehensive selection of vinyl (I would say bigger than any of my 5 local record stores). Its odd, because the one nearest me has a pretty minimal selection (perhaps about 100 discs total).
@DrWorm I had no idea Barnes & Noble still have records. There’s one kinda near me & I’ll check it out. Maybe they hide the records in some far corner… Thanks
My original records I purchased mostly from '69 to '78 or so. As I was extremely careful with them and my Shure V15 cartridge & Thorens 150 turntable, many are in pretty good shape. Wish I still had my old equipment. Had a beautiful little Marantz 18, later a Phase Linear 700. My AR3a speakers lasted a long time while I added Monster sized old black Klipsch La Scala corner horns for some odd reason. I guess to be able to crank the Phase Linear up… The sound from those filled the room… lol… and the block…
My stereo equipment is much more modest now.
Thanks for the info!
I got everything I wanted but Teenage Bottlerocket. Got to the record store at 5:45am, but some suckers right after me found the two copies of it before I did.
@hems79 Wow, 5:45am was very ambitious. When I finally ventured out to the record store, the album I wanted was of course sold-out. I also asked about Teenage Bottlerocket for you, but that was gone too.
@heartny
That’s a bummer dude. I as well was looking out for you for Evanescence “Lost Whispers”. The store I went to had so many releases and sooooo many people that I couldn’t spot it.
@heartny
FYI - I’m scoping out ebay, and I’ve found a few copies of “Lost Whispers” already being sold for $30. In a few days it’ll probably in the $25 range or so.
If I only had a turntable. : (
Or even a media player setup other than using my phone.
Oh well. : )
/youtube if I had a hammer live
@f00l I mean you don’t even have to leave the site really https://morningsave.com/deals/ion-audio-max-lp-conversion-turntable-with-stereo-speakers-9
@slydon
Much thx!
But I am not wanting a media setup at the moment. My flat screen TV is still in the box. For personal reasons.
Perhaps someday … I would like some serious vinyl. Perhaps. If life goes that way.
One upon a time I had approx 2K LP’s, heavy on rock, soul, blues, reggae, jazz, classical.
A fire took all that while it was in storage (a rural metal building on a monitored property), as I was temp living elsewhere. Or, more likely, a thief took everything and then set a fire.
@f00l Sorry about the fire and your loss. Now you can rebuild your collection in HD vinyl. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-hd-vinyl-and-is-it-legit-1825378987 Or soon anyway.
@Stumpy91
It’s cool. The loss stopped hurting so much after the first decade.
And it was arson to cover massive theft. And I knew whodunit. But no proof.
And I had not taken careful care of things and had been irresponsible and followed intuition and had done as I pleased and all that. So there were going to be losses.
Right now I’m not so into chasing the ultimate fidelity. I tried that a bit with headphones and amps, but …
At some point the fidelity quest starts taking over from the music. And people sometimes start “collecting curated musical experiences” instead of being open to accidental and raw and poorly-reproduced wonder.
Thx for the sympathy.
But music still finds me. Somehow.
@f00l @Stumpy91 Really, I still have a sucky direct to disk of Milton Nascimento
@Stumpy91
I know nothing of the companies involved. And know nothing of the physical and chemical engineering and production practices and specs.
But the basic ideas behind so called “HD vinyl” look legit. And the 3D mapping of sound into a ceramic master: that mathematical process can also likely be tweaked and improved, perhaps radically.
(Which leads to amusing speculation about different and competing schools of “mathematical musical algorithm junkies”, all sniping at each other in a game of “who’s best”.)
I know nothing about the production of original recording masters.
But in the case where master recordings were analog masters, I am thinking that mathematically analog algorithms might be designed for used in the making the 3D mappings that generate the ceramic pressing master.
Analog heaven, perhaps?
(Perhaps I used terms incorrectly. I don’t know most of the lingo. Apologies. I do know analog vs digital, tho.)
If it gets that far, talk about a contentious scene! Like politics or economics or education!
Just watching the industry and the consumers react to developments ought to be pretty entertaining in itself.
And if it all resulted in a much wider and more inclusive and more artist-oriented “musical scene”, calling to a kind of “industry decency and innocence”, ands very high quality reproduction, that was also consumer-friendly, well …
Perchance to dream…
Didn’t bother. RSD in New York City is always a clusterfuck, and there was only one thing I really wanted anyway. (Well, two things, but I could do without the other.)
Fortunately, what I wanted is going to get a general release later, so I’m not going to have to go without.
@sanspoint
What were the two things that you wanted?
@sanspoint I got to Rough Trade at 8 AM, made some line friends, got a free donut, and walked through the door at 11. It’s not for everyone, but as a lapsed Catholic I like a good ritual on occasion.
@hems79 The Residents - The Warner Bros. Album (which is getting a wider release) and the Sparks 7" hippopotamus-shaped picture disc.
@gimpeyjoe Last time I did RSD, I didn’t have nearly as pleasant an experience as that. I got to Rough Trade at 7, the line was around the block, and by the time I got in, all the stuff I wanted was gone. Presumably sold to flippers who were going to put all of it on eBay.
No… but I have about 5 or 6 cases of albums I’m going to be selling soon. My husband inherited his parents collection when they passed and then he added his own to it and now he recently passed and I pretty much don’t want most of them. I don’t even know if I can remember how to turn the system on to use the turntable!
@lseeber Have you considered donating the records to the Internet Archive? They’ve got a large 78rpm collection (https://archive.org/details/78rpm ) and would be happy to digitize them and host them on the Internet Archive for you: http://great78.archive.org/join-us/#donatefew
@dashcloud Hadn’t. didn’t know it existed. I’ll take a look. I actually bought my husband a usb turntable because he said he wanted to digitize them himself several yrs back. I just found it… still in the box.
I’ll check out the link. They’d have to pay the shipping tho… it’d be outrageous.
@dashcloud @lseeber
For those, you could use media mail.
Cheap. If that keeps.
Why wait for RSD to go shopping?
Are there esp good deals?
@f00l
Every year there are 300-400 releases on RSD, many of which are limited run pressings. The very sought-after titles will be gobbled up as soon as the doors open. That’s why I was at the record store at 5:45am. Even being 5th in line out of 200 or so, I still couldn’t get one record I really wanted (Teenage Bottlerocket pressing of 350 that I mentioned earlier in this thread.)
I was happy to get six out of seven that I wanted, as four of the ones I grabbed were all accounted for a minute after the doors opened.
@hems79
Are these tracks literally unavailable elsewhere, or unavailable in a similar quality? Not just collectors’ special stuff, but actually unavailable?
Is that what music has become? A rarity “boutique sales” biz?
Ugh. No like.
@f00l
Here’s a few reasons why RSD is up my alley:
Some of these releases have tracks available nowhere else, and were made exclusively for RSD.
Some releases have been out of print and are re-released just for RSD.
Sometimes this is the only chance to get a particular album on vinyl. A lot of fans of these artists are (figuratively) dying for vinyl releases.
Me? All of the above. I also like spinning records at home. Some of the releases are mastered from the original sources, and the quality is much higher than CD or mp3 because of this.
@f00l it’s a hobby like anything else. I picked up a Bowie live album that has never before been officially released, but someone else in my line was very happy to get a Madonna album they could have found used for half the price with some looking around. I also bought a small press album from a musician from Ghana I’d never heard of, and that probably wouldn’t have gotten a big release in any era of music.
Speculators can ruin everything from comic books to record store day but it’s always fun to get something you love. Hopefully a few of the first timers will come back some other day and get something else!
@slydon
@hems79
The thing that gives me pause is the “deliberately not available elsewhere” material.
It’s one thing to stand in line overnight as I did for concert tix (Led Zeppelin, $5, 2nd row center [different world back then, no?]), because concerts are necessarily limited availability.
It’s another thing to set a deliberately rare and limited release of whatever when it’s music. Recorded music could have been released in both high quality and high quantity. No reason not to except marketing.
It makes music start to feel like some sort of $10,000 Birkin bag (if I spelled that brand right)
It’s a game I don’t wish to play.
I went thru the fidelity chase a few years ago with headphones. And the elusive “ultimate fidelity” according to some standard or whatever started to take over my listening. This made me uneasy.
I wound up giving away or selling all my fancy headphones and amps. I still have a few I think, but that’s just because I haven’t gotten around to that bit of de-cluttering yet.
Having the fancy headphones reminded me that I started loving music played on a cheapo Sears tiny kid turntable with a horrible built in speaker, playing 45’s.
And listening on AM in a car or on a transistor radio because album rock FM wasnt a big deal yet, and many cars didn’t even have FM radios at the time.
And yet the music -and my love for it - and my taste - were pretty damned decent for all that. And pretty damned decent for me being a kid in elementary school. Most of the stuff I loved then has held up fine.
Making the seeking of music into some infinitely elusive practice, esp one involving upper-class income levels and potential equipment or knowledge snobbery (or you can’t even listen to these special tracks!!!), makes me want to rely on “found music” randomly encountered.
I don’t recommend my attitudes. They’re just mine. Billions of ways to enjoy music. I hope everyone does.
@f00l five bucks is great for Led Zep, I can’t deny.
I disagree about the “no reason but marketing” to make things small and exclusive. This very site and our old one is proof of how many companies wrecked themselves by thinking a product could be limitless. The Bowie record was from a major label and a major dead rock star, so it wasn’t a risk, and I’ve heard there were tons around. The WB Album from The Residents is a thing not a lot of people are gonna want, or even recognize. Make fifty thousand of those and you’ll be stuck with them for the rest of your life, or calling up a deal-a-day site to dump 'em for pennies on the dollar. And if you’re a small label that might destroy you. Lotsa respect if you spend money on indie labels and bandcamp, though, I do as well and they certainly need it more than the big guys.
Out of curiosity, who are your top three artists from the last five years?
@f00l @slydon
One other fact to consider…
Many of the pressings are done by indie labels, who are trying to make a name of themselves, but don’t have the money to press a lot of albums.
@slydon @hem79
Re marketing.
If a special track can be had on the Amazon or Google music store or on some higher quality digital site or whatever, I’m glad if they press a limited Ed on vinyl.i don’t expect companies or artists to press vinyl that very likely won’t sell.
I have a personal quibble with the practice of releasing especially limited or HQ or expensive stuff that can’t be had for a great price on a big outlets at a lower fidelity.
When the practice becomes so that special material is exclusive to the rich and the aficionados only, to me, it’s marketing.
–
I would not even have a top three artists of the last five years because my attention went elsewhere.
At best it might be “top three newish artists I had even heard of”.
And they would be some huge ultras famous names.
No creativity or special evidence of taste or aesthetic on my part there.
I was way into things until two things happened: the local alt radio kinda died except for college stations you can’t pick up if you aren’t close to campus.
And all the commercial playlists went total computer and algorithm and record-co-deal driven. JackFM and the like. Can it get any more boring and predictable that that?
Well, I could have gone discovering with Sirius.
But the prob with Sirius is that they run Stern, who is such a huge temptation for me that when I am listening to Sirius, I am almost certainly listening to Stern.
And the other thing was that starting in the early 1990’s unabridged audiobooks started to happen.
Even 20+ hour books on cassette (sometime 25-50 cassettes for a book) were wonderful. I became addicted. Then along came audible. And podcasts of increasing quality. And I own far more audiobooks than I will ever listen to. And am subscribed to a residue number of podcasts I pay attention to depending on whim.
And thats where my listening went. To spoken word content. Many hours per day.
Often as not, when I listen to music I don’t already know nowadays, I just aim for “something Mozart” or some old Delta blues.
That’s not all that often.
One the radio died as a good source, I kinda discovered you had to be plugged into a “scene” (college, friends), or really really work at it, or you never heard about new things.
I don’t have kids. So no teenagers kick me to wake up my head re new things.
This is a kinda sad lack.
I miss knowing and hearing new stuff. I miss the days I used to chase certain artists around Manhattan from venue to venue.
I suppose I miss being young.
But the digital life has changed all.
One you had to go out to find out things. And since what you had at home were tv, books, and family, people went out. And found new things.
Now we all stay tethered to the net, but also stuck, a bit, in our little corners. My current corner might be books and audiobooks more than other things.
Re current big names
When I hear someone interview Keith Richards about the modern musical scene (the interviewer usually only asks about the super-famous), I find that KR’s intuitive take is not that different from my very uneducated one. Given that he knows Much and that I know Nothing, we seem to be kinda on the same page.
Not surprising. The Stones provided much of my education that they forgot to cover in class at school.
I might have a bias. Or an imprinting there. Might.
@slydon @hems79
KR follow-up.
This is a pretty entertaining read.
WSJ vs KR.
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-wisdom-of-keith-richards-1519826136
And the apology tour:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/01/keith-richard-insulted-mick-jagger-again-this-time-he-apologized/
I sure hope they don’t die soon.
@f00l @slydon I have one other comment for @f00l
You’re a fast typer.
@f00l @hems79 here’s your one-two punch of great streaming radio comin’ atcha
https://wfmu.org
https://www.kexp.org
@hems79 @slydon
Thx for sources.
Will stream a bit over the next few.
Listening mostly to Cold War and Nam history at the moment. I get into moods.
But that’s intense stuff and I needs a break now and then.
@hems79 @slydon
Here’s one local band I like. I know some of them.
They won’t burn down the world or the industry but they have their own thing and I think they’re good.
https://signalsandalibis.bandcamp.com/
While I still have my original collection of LPs that I accumulated through my teenage years (approx 250 discs?), I have yet to re-enter the fray of purchasing them since their resurgence.
However, I have found myself pouring through the crates of merchandise in my local record shops. There is something enjoyable about that activity that was never quite the same with CDs (nor, obviously, MP3s.)
i let go of about 35 LP’s in 2013, at a garage sale for 50 cents each. i regret that now…
/youtube i regret that now
/image regret
/giphy regret now
