I've dropped at least a grand on vinyls from obscure european online retailers in the last few days ... and i live in australia and we're in a global pandemic... so It will be a miracle if any of them arrive.
But music has always been the biggest passion in my life and besides a few concerts I've never supported artists before, and I'll be able to show my kids dads weird music collection one day so that's how I justify it.

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Yep I love my Vinyl and CD collection. Used to buy more CDs, now I'm more into Vinyls these days. Just can't beat having an album you love on Vinyl (or even CD).

Yeah and because I'm a music fan not a businessman I'm gonna play the shit out of them - including a few rare expensive ones I've ordered from discogs.

I don't really understand the scalpers...there are more effective/lucrative ways to make money than buying and selling vinyl (besides record store owners)

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"Yeah and because I'm a music fan not a businessman I'm gonna play the shit out of them - including a few rare expensive ones I've ordered from discogs."



Can respect that you'll actually jam your vinyls, even the rare ones. Gotta be something reeaally rare and special for me not to spin it.

Well I was thinking maybe I'd just have it in my collection w/out actually spinning it so I still get the satisfaction of owning some of my favourite albums, but I figured I'd never actually sell them, so might as well play them and just handle them with care you know

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"I will forever the preserve the art of actually having a collection."

Same, there's nothing quite like picking something from the shelves. Plus I really hate streaming and having to get multiple accounts because this service doesn't have that band yet the other one doesn't have that band etc. Sucks.

Yeah music really lucked out by having a huge hub that basically has everything or almost everything like Spotify because pretty soon there's gonna be a streaming service for every fucking show on earth and pirating shows is gonna be low key the norm

I don’t even have a way to play CDs anymore [2]

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Personnaly,

CD for Classical music collection.

Digital Library organize ( Flac, m4a, mp3-320) for all the rest.

No streaming for me, neither.

i guess the renaissance of vinyl is basically a retaliation to the streaming/pirating age and more like an expression/philosophy since they’re obviously very inconvenient and the difference in sound quality would be marginal on most sound systems (plus there’s the risk to a shit pressing)
And to a lesser extent CDs.

That and also retro fetish

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I'm not too much into vinyl. At all actually. CDs all the way.

The vinyl renaissance is due to the obsolescence of the CD format; people still want a physical, collectable medium that has a degree of permanence to it. But streaming absolutely was a retaliation to the convenience of piracy.

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''people still want a physical, collectable medium that has a degree of permanence to it''

One of the main reasons I would always go for a physical format, yeah. Once you've bought a record physically (whatever medium) you 'have' it. It won't disappear because your streaming service of choice no longer supports a label or a band decides to no longer love that particular record or any such reasons. Putting on a CD (or other physical releases) also makes me pay more attention to the music, whereas streaming is too volatile.

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Man, this album really stands out past the halfway mark. The final five tracks are absolutely brilliant.



About the last remarks, well... Vinyl is an extremely cool collector piece that doesn't and will never have the same audio quality a CD offers.

Streaming services (specifically looking at you Spotify) not only underpay their artists and are prone to having records randomly removed by labels at any time but are also capped at 320 KBPS.

I don't see how streaming "solves" the whole piracy issue when said people abuse streaming services that work with lossless music to get high quality music for free and it being more convenient than it ever was as well as said streaming services underpaying their artists while also anhilating their market share.



Anyways the vinyl and streaming combo seems to be an amazing solution for the greatest common denominator but not for the artists themselves.

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I’m staring to sour on CDs slightly, when the digital alternative is often just as good sound-quality wise, it’s hard to justify investing in a physical copy... especially when I’ll just end up moving on to something else 1-2 years later (if not sooner) anyway.

I’ve bought CDs for artists I still enjoy, but I could definitely do without. Now the quality/longevity threshold is so damn high in my own mind, I end up not buying any.

If I collected vinyl it’d likely be the same, yet at least that format can still offer a higher quality alternative, complete with larger artwork etc. Only reason I don’t do it already is convenience and living situation.

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I still collect CD's mostly because I can't afford to buy the Vinyl of every single album I actually would like to. I do have some though (maybe like 40+, versus probably 200+ CD's).



I usually get t-shirts and hoodies. And I've actually gotten a couple of people on bands they've never heard it because of it, and struck up convos with people I would have otherwise never known listen to some of the same stuff I do.

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Since we're throwing personal exposition in the mix, it personally pains me to see people wearing band merch but I appreciate them supporting the artists they love.

I buy all records the groups I enjoy put out digitally at the highest quality available and only buy my favorite albums as vinyl to display on my house.



Having CD's is definitely the better option if you're an audiophile since you can just store the CD's, collect them or display them while you can also burn them as many times as you want in lossless quality. Albeit, they don't look as cool as those chonky Vinyl albums while on display.

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^^^Why does it pain you?

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Branding on clothing isn't very stylish...

It's a fashion thing haha.