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Post by spicer on Sept 29, 2021 9:11:57 GMT
Your Elpees sound like Ceedees because you ain't getting all of the goddamn information outa the goddamn grooves. Try this fucking bag of wing nuts:
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Post by essayceedee on Sept 29, 2021 21:54:14 GMT
Vinyl has infinite resolution, everyone knows that. So you need to get your ears upgraded. STeVE knows a guy in Mexico that can do it for the price of a couple of Hallographs.
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Post by antiram on Oct 8, 2021 19:28:15 GMT
I guess this is as bad a place to admit this as anywhere...
So, after 20 years of owning no 'physical media' (to use a SHitey term) and only playing .flac and .mp3 files, I (rather impulsively) decided that it would be nice to have some 'physical media' on hand so that I wouldn't have to boot up the computer or pair my mp3 player with a Bluetooth speaker every time I feel like listening to something. And I can look at the cover and read the little booklet.
In an act of utter SHitedom, I decided to splurge on an "instant collection", and ordered 260 ceedees off Amazon (most of which have arrived, but the last few are still dribbling in). That might sound like a colossal waste of money (and I admit that it is, but ya only live once). But, thanks to hipsters and SHites (two very distinct groups) overbuying vinyl, the price of new and used ceedees has never been lower, so 260 ceedees only cost about 40% what they would have 25 years ago, even before adjusting for inflation.
This is intended mostly as a one-time splurge; I still primarily listen to my digital files, and I refuse to spend money on crappy records for the sake of completism, itself a very SHitey concept. So, I stuck to ceedees of albums that I actually enjoy playing (predictably, very few turn out to be the typical SHite favorites), ones that still challenge me a little and aren't just the limp, comfortable ones favored on SHF. So now, if I am doing work about the house or doing something outdoors, I put on a ceedee.
The first time I ever heard ceedees (in 1985), it was an incredible revelation to me. Albums that sounded muddy and lifeless on vinyl sounded full and complete at last. The first 3 ceedees I owned were Beggars Banquet, Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits, and Red Octopus. I had never even realized there was a mellotron on Beggars Banquet, until I heard the CD. I never realized how the backing vocals on "Hey Joe" added significantly to the song's sound. Only Red Octopus sounded bad, which puzzled me until I realized it was the band itself that sucked. I was instantly convinced by the overwhelming evidence of ceedee superiority, and immediately started to plan the unloading of my vinyl, a deed done within four years. Whichever sucker that wound up with my old mono Sgt. Pepper is probably as driven to distraction as I was by the annoying skip in track three that I could never get rid of, heheh.
So once again, I'm pleased with how alive and vibrant ceedees sound, almost 40 years after their invention. And vinyl lp's have once again struck me as murky, unwieldy, and easily damaged; a quaint but useless relic of the mid-20th century, like answering machines and Super 8 projectors.
Ears? I got ears, pal.
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Post by daved on Oct 8, 2021 19:37:47 GMT
Death Magnetic streaming sounds better than Death Magnetic on CD.
Enjoy your CDs.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Oct 8, 2021 20:10:16 GMT
If you are honestly enjoying it, then it was probably worth whatever you spent on it. If you're gonna spend the next 6 months bitching about disks being off center, non-fill, bent covers, impacted basses, Bellman-bottom jeans, amazon's return policy, not being able to afford your next forum donation, porch pirates, discog sellers who don't respond with 24 minutes, bad rips, distorted waveforms, compression, inverted signals, collapsed mono, prolapsed stereo, barcodes, digipaks, scuffed jewel cases, missing obis, censored artwork, unrelated bonus tracks, late-period re-recordings, CD-Rs, profane lyrics, modern remixes, and missing signature songs, then I kindly ask that you fuck off.
Otherwise, have fun! When you get a chance, please share all the titles you bought so we can tell you what's missing from your collection.
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Oct 9, 2021 0:52:57 GMT
Antiram! Good to see you!
200 some odd CDs? There is NO excuse to not be catalog on Van Morrison now.
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Post by antiram on Oct 9, 2021 3:29:17 GMT
If you are honestly enjoying it, then it was probably worth whatever you spent on it. If you're gonna spend the next 6 months bitching about disks being off center, non-fill, bent covers, impacted basses, Bellman-bottom jeans, amazon's return policy, not being able to afford your next forum donation, porch pirates, discog sellers who don't respond with 24 minutes, bad rips, distorted waveforms, compression, inverted signals, collapsed mono, prolapsed stereo, barcodes, digipaks, scuffed jewel cases, missing obis, censored artwork, unrelated bonus tracks, late-period re-recordings, CD-Rs, profane lyrics, modern remixes, and missing signature songs, then I kindly ask that you fuck off. Otherwise, have fun! When you get a chance, please share all the titles you bought so we can tell you what's missing from your collection. I've never understood the SHite compulsion to gripe and whine over every little thing. A few of the discs came with cracked jewel cases ( d'oh! I forgot all about that little design flaw in the years that I had gone no-physical-stuff, but Digipaks seem to have solved that problem). I'm not playing the jewel case, and if I ever need a new jewel case, they are cheaper than dirt now. It's gonna take me a good long while to work my way through these (which is why I got 'em all at once), but frankly, they sound fine to me. One of the only things I am certain of, beyond death and taxes, it that music is created to be enjoyed. Even ugly music is intended to be enjoyed. If you aren't enjoying it, then you're truly missing the point. Music soothes the soul, unless you're a soulless bastard who frets about the perils of playing a freakin' disc. Heheh, I might list the titles when they all get here, but that is so SHitey, I might not be able to bring myself to do it. Maybe I'll use very small font for it. It is a kinda interesting list for autists like me, because it isn't really what I'd pick as a top-260 list but it is an honest stab at 260-reliable-favorites with only a few guilty purchases snuck in. lol... Somehow ole Van never crossed my mind. Maybe because I've been waiting all my life for Astral Weeks to click, and it never freakin' ever clicks. I shoulda put that one on the list to try to force-feed it to myself one last time, but the old man just never came up in my thoughts. I did limit myself to a dollar amount, so going 'catalog' wasn't gonna be an option for all but two or three artists or bands with brief career outputs, and I wasn't hunting down anyone's "rarities". In my head, I kept narrowing things down by asking myself "do I really want this crappy fifth album because I like the artist, or should I spring for someone else's good one?" and "get the good one" was the answer 90% of the time. So far no regrets, and I think I'll stick to that policy. Duly noted. I have no quarrel with streaming; I just like avoiding the monthly nut of paying for it. And having the files on my own drive made them more malleable for how I want to listen to them. But streaming is ultimately where the world is going, and I can't cry and stamp my feet about it like some do... Streaming is useful and practical, and music is music.
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Oct 9, 2021 7:38:52 GMT
I had a similar experience to antiram in that I picked up c200 CDs for a very small cost. The difference is that these were CD singles from the 90s and it quickly cured me of the creeping nostalgia for the days of visiting Our Price every Monday for new chart releases.
This is because 90% of them are awful; the A-sides are a huge range between good (Glory Box by Portishead, for example) and awful (Turn On, Tune In And Cop Out by Freak Power), but the kicker is that pretty much all of them are packed to the gills with generic remixes as B-sides that don’t bear repeating. So most of these are going to the charity shop fairly soon.
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Post by daved on Oct 9, 2021 10:26:58 GMT
If anyone wants to pay shipping you can have about 400-500 for free.
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Post by bradman on Oct 9, 2021 12:00:44 GMT
Are there really that many Rush albums?
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Post by Flat Transfer on Oct 9, 2021 13:34:12 GMT
Maybe because I've been waiting all my life for Astral Weeks to click, and it never freakin' ever clicks. Stop trying. It sucks.
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Oct 9, 2021 14:07:50 GMT
Are there really that many Rush albums? That's not albums. 500 discs is merely one Rush song.
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Post by acslater on Oct 9, 2021 15:41:56 GMT
I guess this is as bad a place to admit this as anywhere... So, after 20 years of owning no 'physical media' (to use a SHitey term) and only playing .flac and .mp3 files, I (rather impulsively) decided that it would be nice to have some 'physical media' on hand so that I wouldn't have to boot up the computer or pair my mp3 player with a Bluetooth speaker every time I feel like listening to something. And I can look at the cover and read the little booklet. In an act of utter SHitedom, I decided to splurge on an "instant collection", and ordered 260 ceedees off Amazon (most of which have arrived, but the last few are still dribbling in). That might sound like a colossal waste of money (and I admit that it is, but ya only live once). But, thanks to hipsters and SHites (two very distinct groups) overbuying vinyl, the price of new and used ceedees has never been lower, so 260 ceedees only cost about 40% what they would have 25 years ago, even before adjusting for inflation. This is intended mostly as a one-time splurge; I still primarily listen to my digital files, and I refuse to spend money on crappy records for the sake of completism, itself a very SHitey concept. So, I stuck to ceedees of albums that I actually enjoy playing (predictably, very few turn out to be the typical SHite favorites), ones that still challenge me a little and aren't just the limp, comfortable ones favored on SHF. So now, if I am doing work about the house or doing something outdoors, I put on a ceedee. The first time I ever heard ceedees (in 1985), it was an incredible revelation to me. Albums that sounded muddy and lifeless on vinyl sounded full and complete at last. The first 3 ceedees I owned were Beggars Banquet, Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits, and Red Octopus. I had never even realized there was a mellotron on Beggars Banquet, until I heard the CD. I never realized how the backing vocals on "Hey Joe" added significantly to the song's sound. Only Red Octopus sounded bad, which puzzled me until I realized it was the band itself that sucked. I was instantly convinced by the overwhelming evidence of ceedee superiority, and immediately started to plan the unloading of my vinyl, a deed done within four years. Whichever sucker that wound up with my old mono Sgt. Pepper is probably as driven to distraction as I was by the annoying skip in track three that I could never get rid of, heheh. So once again, I'm pleased with how alive and vibrant ceedees sound, almost 40 years after their invention. And vinyl lp's have once again struck me as murky, unwieldy, and easily damaged; a quaint but useless relic of the mid-20th century, like answering machines and Super 8 projectors. Ears? I got ears, pal. Great CD haul dude! Flaunt that shit! There’s like a million places on the internet where normal music fans share their used CD finds from all the people dumping their CD collections for vinyl snd streaming. No whining, no pouting, no being a Shite, no whack job freak shows like the boomers at the SHF.
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Post by NeverHeardOfEm on Oct 9, 2021 16:15:35 GMT
While I'll admit to being a bit of a vinyl hipster, I still collect CDs and I'm happy to scoop them up for cheap and rip them onto my music server, especially for 90s music that was either never released on vinyl, was released on vinyl in extremely limited numbers and is expensive (and often has way too many tracks crammed onto a single disc), or is now available as a pricy reissue.
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Post by gary191265 on Oct 9, 2021 16:29:52 GMT
If anyone wants to pay shipping you can have about 400-500 for free. Where do you live?
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