Never use this word!

My son just bought a box set of LPs of his favorite artist - he's actually interested in physical media.



First thing I taught him was never to say vinyls. It will never be accepted usage in my household, and I will not accept the redefinition of words. :righton:

It matters not a jot to me as I only buy records from the 70's or early 80's.
Can we stop calling it "vinyl" please?
Vinyl is what you cover your kitchen floor with.

Hmm, aren`t you glad they didn't call them "vinylSSSS" (intended to be spoken in Dana Carvey's Church Lady Voice when he said "SAYYYYTAN" ;-))

I have records from 1970s which already use 'vinyl'.

I know. I used to refer to "coloured vinyl" myself but these days every record is called "a vinyl" for some reason.

Maybe Record Collector magazine should change their name to Vinyl Collector to attract readers that don't know what a record is.

Who doesn't know what a record is?



Us millennials have helped spark the revival of vinyl sales, after you all abandoned vinyl for CDs. Don't get mad at us.

Oh yes we can! They use the word vinyls which is abhorrent to everybody that knows what the actual word is!



JG

Yep! This is the epitome of unnecessary millennial bashing. We revive the sales of your preferred musical format, but then you crap on us because we aren't using the terminology in your preferred way. (Though I still maintain that I've never heard anyone use the term "vinyls" and I've been buying vinyl records for 20 years).

I was thinking of starting a thread: "When you visit a record store what is your priority? Do you go straight to the sealed current stock or to the used lps?"



Myself I NEVER look at the sealed records. Not so much for the reason that these overpriced ($30-40) records are pressed -poorly and more often than not somewhat deficient quality-wise, but because the percentage of the music on offer is just CURRENT FAD / NOTHING lps, the sort of music bought by 20-40 year old musically wet-behind-the-ears fanboy males. Champing at the bit for lame things like current flash-in-the-pan artists or society-pushed artists like Lady Gag, Drake, lame reissues like Cohen and all that. Indigenous-hip hop. Really simple/bad electro-dance, ad nauseum. I mean guppies will swallow throat-singing-"shoegaze" if that's what the media will force down their throats. Current craze - for last 5 ferkin' years! - here where I live is local one-time band ,Tragically Hip.

(For Prog, its the ever-hyped bands like Porkupine Tree (okay fanboy - spelt wrong. I don't give a fig), Mars Volta, Radiohead,Steven Wilson this, Steven Wilson that.)



They herd into the store like directed cattle and.... what's on their "list"? : Led Zeppelin, Sabbath,Neil Young, Bare Naked Ladies and Gordon Downey. That's about the extent of their knowledge. Its like a woman walking bemused into a record store and asking, "You wouldn't have any Celine Dion, would you?"



The real diggers, the true collectors/explorers do the USED bins. Believe me. The music WAS music back then - and the vinyl wasn't likely to be defective.

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Have I angered you? Too close to the bone for some of you?

According to Michael Fremer, other suppliers stepped up and fears that the Apollo fire would contribute to production bottlenecks have not materialized.



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