Audio cassettes all the way. Vinyl fans are poseurs.
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Audio cassettes all the way. Vinyl fans are poseurs.
There are actually a rising number of cassette-only releases. It's not making quite the comeback vinyl is, but it's got a bit of sub-culture going for it...though what doesn't these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dead & Messed Up
I like owning vinyl for a combination of the audio quality, the tactile listening experience and the physical collecting aspects, but as much nostalgia I have for cassettes (trying to record songs off the radio, trading with friends, etc.), I also remember the nightmarish aspects like have to break out pens to try to salvage the tape reels. A vinyl + mp3 collection makes sense b/c it gives you the best of all options of listening to music, but cassettes and CDs should really go the way of the 8-track.
Finally! I'm on assignment for Germany, something I've been trying to get since the beginning of the year. Now I've got a lot of things to do so I can go home the end of July before flying out the first week of August. Most importantly is getting my family medical stuff caught up and copys of their records so I can clear them for travel and inclusion on my orders. I need orders before I can do anything else in regard to transportation and shipping of my stuff/clearing this house. Most people are put on assignment (especially overseas) with 90+ days notice, and I've got around 60 because this process has taken so long already, that I'm past due for orders.
Don't be silly. Of course not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucky
[intentionally ignoring all the data that suggests yes]
Which is EXACTLY why they sell them at Urban Outfitters.Quote:
Originally Posted by number8
Vinyl doesn't sound better than CDs, but it does sound different, and a lot of people prefer the warmer bass sound. But I think the ritual of listening to vinyl is seductive. It requires your presence in a way other formats don't.
It's also probably an outgrowth of a shift towards tangible objects in a world where everything is being turned into 1s and 0s. Vinyl can't be replicated digitally.
I just read today, that Limp Bizkit will release their new single on cassette only.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dukefrukem
Bwhaha
Here's a dialogue I read a while back from some audio experts on the matter.
As long as Mondo keeps releasing 'em, I'll keep buying 'em.
http://blog.mondotees.com/wp-content...ard-Yellow.jpg
That's what I keep saying about their movie posters.Quote:
Originally Posted by number8
The heroine would be a biracial girl from the deep South who comes to New York with dreams of being a singer and decides to pass as white in order to improve her employment opportunities. She gets a job as a song plugger and becomes romantically attached to a roguish songwriter-huckster but is worried she'll be shunned if her past comes to light. She also provides a wrenching visual commentary on the then-common practice of blackface in vaudeville.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mara
I would watch that show.
Right?
I mean you can't see her in my head, but she's really pretty. The roguish songwriter-huckster looks exactly like Lee Pace, so you don't have to imagine that one.
I kept thinking that I'd seen a film where Judy Garland played an actual song plugger (the girl who sings in the shop to try and get people to buy sheet music.) It was In the Good Old Summertime. I spent too long googling that.
Oh, I know. My brother just released an album on audio cassette - and only audio cassette. I'm not sure if he's doing it out of respect for the technical whatevers or out of contempt for the masses.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derek
She would become friends and eventually room with a curvaceous, clever bombshell who specializes in double-entrendre and comic songs for the vaudeville crowd, while our heroine is better at the love songs and absurdly sincere "sobbing" songs. (Think early Mae West and Ruth Etting, respectively.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mara
Don't worry. I'll stop.*
*when this stops entertaining me
I got a comment in before it crashed, but it was incredibly slow even at that point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skitch
Ah, there's nothing like a good prank. Here's a really good prank (with video):
http://gawker.com/bored-teens-hire-a...nci-1586275483
I hope I'm not the only person who pronounces "McG" as "mick-guh."
I'm so doing this from now on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spun Lepton
Learned yesterday that author Anne Perry is one of the girls on whom Beautiful Creatures is based. Blew my mind. I must've known at some point and forgotten, because how would I miss something that big?
She's also Mormon.
I am tearing my hair out at work today. But, somehow, Match Cut is unblocked at my work now? Is it like a karmic silver lining thing, or is it a trap?
Pub signs.
I think #28 could even get Mara to throw one back with me.