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Even the 10"-ers, they are still cheap and common in your nexus of the woods? (please say yes...)

Supraphon 10", an object of no small delight!!! Record plays well-enough too, an extra bonus, but the object is the thing here, especially the cover painting, still a nice glossy laminate on thickass cardboard, with no wear or peel to the sheen..

Going to church a day early today.

Ok, yeah, midi files: Seems to me that eventually and/but inevitably you get here:

Magic Moments of Lata Mangeshkar No image available, found it at a recent library sale. But, these Bollywood songs of a certain vintage, and how they were almost all performed by a small handful of "playback singers"...lord have mercy, such music, and so much of it! And not having indigenous ears or anything else to give this actual context, the rhythmic cadences of the lyricws, the harmonic shifts and the totally in-the-pocket drumming makes for an imaginative experience that is nothing but delight for me. And then there's the scenes from the films themselves, which if you're patient, you can find on YouToob: Next library sale, I'm grabbing any CD that looks like it might even be something like this.

Oh, that one. I only have it as a digital file from a now defunct (I think,...) blog. The CD images above are from Discogs. It's a "grey market" label, I assume. Pretty rousing renditions for the most part, and if a legit/authorized version should appear, I'd be likely to pay for it. But at this point in time, it has not, and I haven't. And yet it exists, I can listen to it any time I want to, at least as long as there's electricity!

Has anybody done a factual analysis of environmental impact/carbon footprint of Vinyl vs CD vs download? Not packaging, just core product. If you're old enough, you can remember when OPEC got blamed for jacking up the quality of vinyl supply and all that.

Gil is playing very proactive piano here!

Are they swiping left or right, or just flailing about, trying to have actions without consequences? Leaving the virtual lifestyle behind, or simply modifying it, is not a matter of wishing stuff to be so and then pretending it. You ain't getting back to that garden, believe that. If you want a different now, start with the current now, don't backtrack into a dream built on a myth built on a defunct behavioral paradigm. Save us all some time! What I like about old vinyl (apart from the potential cost benefit) is that if you have a session that was recorded under lo(wer)-fi conditions, that analog LP is always going to bring the lo-fi more truly than anything digital. Talking about a lot of classical here, but some other musics as well, but, you know, some local chamber ensemble recording some obscurish composer and/or composition in a closet on a 3 3/4 IPS RTR because that's all they had, and playing the shit out of it for all of the 10-15 people who were ever going to actually buy that record, hell, you don't really want that in digital, you want that in analog, and preferably on a record that's not the greatest vinyl to begin with, because that type of thing REEKS (aurally and physically) of time/place/situation, that's the best it's going to sound because that shit's got a hide on it, you can't clean it up without doing some dermabrasion, and then what have you got? A rhino with smooth skin. Yuck.

Trilby, I believe.

LPs are fun, and I've kinda amped up on looking for older classical LPs for multiple various reasons. But c'mon kids, let's get real about what's what and how's how. Oh, all this talk about vinyl sounding "warmer"...not vinyl, analog recording/mastering/playback. That's a real thing,(even if "warmer" is a totally subjective interpretation applied to an actual audio phenomenon). But you gonna get the new Taylor Blowfish Grande record on an LP, good luck finding the analog in all that, and good luck taking it to parties and back and keeping the girlfriend's cat's hairs off of it and all that. Find something else to clean your weed on, and if you want tactile, hey, your girlfriend apparently has a cat, so touch it and see what happens. Better you get scratched than your records! We're not gonna get ourselves back to the garden of analog, the garden done been turned over and they're growing electric fingernails there now.

Just saying - we got digital before it was ready, and then once it got good, all the damn boomer nostalgia about how great it was to clean your weed on the inside of a gatefold LP devolved into how great records used to sound (oh, but remember how these same Boomers raved about how great CDs used to sound what with no scratches and not having to turn the record over and all that), and then, these mush-headed whoever they are started taking that to heart and, oh, vinyl is so...TACTILE, andyeah, sure, let's go back to touchy-feeley AUDIO. I think it's all bullshit. Nostalgia as science. Distraction as strategy. Bottom line - an LP can sound great, but so can a CD and so can a file. In each case, I want the output format that best executes the input and the medium that best carries it. Tone Poems for Joan's Bone'ems, etc.

I don't pay that much attention to him any more, haven't for the last 5 years or so, just not enough time to get everything in. . But I'll default to trust with Ahmad Jamal. All the nay-sayers over the years, I think they've been proven wrong, whether they'll admit it or not. The guy's continued to be strong, fresh, and vital.

Or because there have been some shitty sounding digital products over the years. But it's a poor craftsman that blames his tools.

That could make for a good record.

I preferred to do it the other way around.

It's more likely I'd like to get it in randomly spaced bits, so Pandora for me as far as that type of thing.

I really don't understand the "resurgence" of vinyl. Everything I liked about it, I still like. but digital recording/playback has made quantum leaps in its lifetime, and unless there's some subconscious/subliminal yearning of the brain to return to processing a continuous analog signal instead of a still-fragmented digital data chain (and I'll not be one to rule that out, nor one to reflexively agree to it)...I see people paying waaaay too much (imo) for new records that have digital damn near everywhere in the processing chain yet still demand an analog playback technology and/or a playback medium that is fraught with peril over the long haul. I'm like, yeah, I still buy vinyl regularly, but old stuff that was recorded and mastered to be played back that way, and even then, with an eye (or tow) on the price/condition ratio. Because, back in the day, what a REAL geek would do was that as soon as they got a good record, they'd transfer it to tape to save the vinyl, because, you know, shit happens. And shit still happens. So, ok. Now what?