I’m a recovering vinyl junkie. The majority of the credit card balance I carry to this day is a several thousand dollar investment in records I made at the height of my electronic music djing days. Any of you who have been downstairs know I have records crammed everywhere into my basement office: stacked against the wall, stacked on my shelves, in my 2 record bags, even under my desk. At last count I was over 1,000. Doing the math is scary.
Anyway, I bought into one of the digital audio to vinyl adapters (used Stanton Final Scratch) about a year and a half ago, so I found a new outlet for my addiction; $2 per song is a little better than $10-12 per record I suppose. Unfortunately for me, now that I am ramping my djing back up, these digital dj platforms are still difficult to bring to a remote site. Since I have a gig lined up in a week that couldn’t promise access to Final Scratch, I bit the bullet & had to buy a few new records.
Unfortunately, I think it’s re-awakened the vinyl junkie in me…
I know what you mean Matt… Vinyl emulation is certainly a Dj’s dream come true, but nothing has, and nothing ever will replace vinyl. I made a pact with myself when i got my emulator that i’d still pursue record shopping on a regular basis. We can’t always rely on computers and not everything is on MP3. Besides, nothing can replace that precious “trading card” feeling of having some rare/exlusive record that you had to lie cheat steal or kill for.
vinyl lives
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Yeah Matt, I think I’ve caught the insatiable vinyl bug. I already spend 50% of my income on them.
I don’t even really have proper tables.
But it’s so much more fun than buying tapes of CDs ever was.
I wanna check out your collection sometime. Do you index them on Discogs? My name on Discogs is metadetoit.
For my favorite tracks, I definitely like to have them on wax and mp3.