Music "Devolution"
Apologies for the long text, but this is the caption I put with this photo.
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Music "Devolution" by
Ryan J. Nicholson, on Flickr
How times have changed.
You can deny it as much as you want, but the music industry has in a sense gone to ****, its been a major dumbing down in a sense for the past decade or so. We have stuff like iTunes and Spotify to thank for that. Am I hating these music services? No I love my iPhone 4S and I'm an avid user of Spotify, but they still caused a vast change in the industry in terms of splitting up once complete albums into single releases. I'm a person who appreciates the entire album on an LP, as its how the artist originally intended.
Vinyl to me is always going to be the king of all formats in terms of sound quality, overall music enjoyment and shelf life. The iPad is okay, but its nothing more than some digital signals working via wifi to stream the music from a Spotify Server. To me vinyl can be far more appreciated.
Deep down I know the music industry is kicking themselves, if they'd have stuck with vinyl it would
have not only provided a crisper sounds (as development would have been on going with quadrophonic records etc). It would have also prevented music piracy from getting to the extent it has currently, because lets face it, it is quite difficult to record a vinyl in high quality and then to spend time compressing to a useable size, This area is generally a hobbyists thing. The average consumer would have most likely stuck with making personal use mix tapes for the car xD.
Vinyl you rule.
My oldest Vinyl in my collection was pressed in 1949 its a Dixieland Jazz album and it plays without skipping or jumping perfectly fine. I have CD's what are from 1990/91 and some of the silver has warn away making them in essence useless. Its not like the vinyl has been terribly well look after either. This album spent its time being played on a radiogram with a heavy tone arm and then stored for the past 25 years in a garage which half flooded almost every year.
LOL
Peace.
