Vinyl isn't dead yet...

Yada wrote:
You must have the ears of a badger to tell the difference between FLAC and streaming direct from your phone via bluetooth.

You mean FLAC from a hard drive vs anything streaming from my phone over bluetooth, and you don't need to be a badger to tell the difference of local play vs streaming bluetooth.  The skips alone….

vansmack wrote:

Yada wrote:
You must have the ears of a badger to tell the difference between FLAC and streaming direct from your phone via bluetooth.

You mean FLAC from a hard drive vs anything streaming from my phone over bluetooth, and you don't need to be a badger to tell the difference of local play vs streaming bluetooth.  The skips alone….

Skips? I don't have skips when I stream from my phone through my hot rod's speakers.

vansmack wrote:

bearman🐻 wrote:
I don't stream.

You will.

bearman🐻 wrote:
I purchase downloads or still buy LPs or CDs (and rip CDs…if LPs come with a download card, all the better). I got made fun of last week for having an old iPod.

The only reason to make fun of an old iPod is if it is redundant - like if you carry a cell phone that is not work prohibited.  Knowing bearman, he probably has a GI blackberry and uses the iPod for music listening.  If he has a secondary personal mobile device, well, that's grounds for being humorously told about the redundancy he has created for himself. 

I have an iphone but I use ipod shuffles in the gym. They're tiny and they weigh nothing; I just pin it to my shirt and press play, and I don't touch it again until I go back to the locker room. All my tunes and no distractions from a web-connected device.

Now if we could just get the kids to stop fucking texting between sets. "Hey, I need to use that machine." "I've got just one more set." EVERY FUCKING TIME!

vansmack wrote:

bearman🐻 wrote:
I don't stream.

You will.

bearman🐻 wrote:
I purchase downloads or still buy LPs or CDs (and rip CDs…if LPs come with a download card, all the better). I got made fun of last week for having an old iPod.

The only reason to make fun of an old iPod is if it is redundant - like if you carry a cell phone that is not work prohibited.  Knowing bearman, he probably has a GI blackberry and uses the iPod for music listening.  If he has a secondary personal mobile device, well, that's grounds for being humorously told about the redundancy he has created for himself. 

I pretty much only use Apple products. No blackberry for me. The reason why I don't like streaming is I think it's a waste of money because I wouldn't use it with the same frequency that others use it. I tried Spotify and Apple Music. It wasn't enough to compel me to become a regular user. I already own so much music and I've actually had artists thank me on my stance for my anti-streaming stance. I am simply the kind of music fan that is attached to the physical medium. I buy plenty of music as MP3s, but I still think that the actual owning of music is the ultimate way to show appreciation to an artist for the thought, energy, time, creativity, passion, and ultimately soul put into the final product. Maybe that's not the future, I'm OK with it.

bearman🐻 wrote: Maybe that's not the future, I'm OK with it.

people got to move to the beat of their own drummer…so more power to ya
I'd imagine it's hard to be a musician in this streaming environment

but if you are in a band…tour and sell merch, that's how the money is made for small acts

I'm surprised how few acts have made it big with out lable support though.  I kinda thought we were cutting out the middleman in this new internet era and you could have access to anyband no matter the distribution

I really can't name any acts that have been able to just cut and run from the label world

Brother wrote:
I really can't name any acts that have been able to just cut and run from the label world

Macklemore. That's one of the only ones I can think of.

Fugazi has a couple of multi-platinum albums.

ggw wrote:
Fugazi has a couple of multi-platinum albums.

Dean Wareham singles out Fugazi/Ian in his book as an anomaly…that their business model works for them, but in reality it's not that realistic for most other bands. In a recent interview Dean talks about how ultimately Luna isn't making much money on selling music, but at least through avenues like Pledgemusic they can more easily record their music and recoup expenses, so it's not that they're losing money on it. Touring is apparently where they can still find a way to keep their career afloat.

bearman🐻 wrote:

Brother wrote:
I really can't name any acts that have been able to just cut and run from the label world

Macklemore. That's one of the only ones I can think of.

Speaking exclusively in the rap realm, isn't that a big part of Chance the Rapper's shtick? Being self-released, and up until now, not selling his releases.

Now you can buy the vinyl that NASA gave away for free to the aliens.

http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/voyager-record-nasa-sent-to-space-for-sale

While researching the past of the College Park RTX, I came across two old Post articles of interest:

November 11, 1979, The Record Biz -- After the Crash

CBS, the undisputed leader in wholesale sales in the $4.1-billion industry, cut the list price on more than 350 albums from $7.98 $5.98.

The dawn of the "Nice Price" era.

Buddy Poms, owner of Sights and Sounds Records in Gaithersburg, and many others of the more than 100 store owners in the area….

More than 100 stores?!?! :o :o :o

June 20, 1997, RECORD TIME

Contains a long list of area stores that existed 20 years ago.

Nice.  I'd forgotten the name of Sights and Sounds.

Anyone remember the name of the record store in Wheaton Triangle (not Phantasmagoria)? I can only remember it as Backstreet Records but I'm not sure that's right.  It was a frequent stop when I used to bounce around MoCo looking for stuff.

There was a shop in downtown Bethesda, too, and I can't remember the name of that one, either.

Joe's?

Joe's has been in 5 locations by my count but never in Wheaton Triangle.

StoneTheCrow wrote:
Nice.  I'd forgotten the name of Sights and Sounds.

Anyone remember the name of the record store in Wheaton Triangle (not Phantasmagoria)? I can only remember it as Backstreet Records but I'm not sure that's right.  It was a frequent stop when I used to bounce around MoCo looking for stuff.

There was a shop in downtown Bethesda, too, and I can't remember the name of that one, either.

Backstreet Records is quoted in the 1979 article.

Hadn't gotten to that article yet. Thanks!

A wall of vinyl, but spine in.

Yung Wu (offshoot of the Feelies) LP "Shore Leave" will get a reissue this year.

Hoping someone can assist me with a vinyl setup query. Currently I have the following setup:

Orbit Special Turntable with built-in pre-amp -> Sonos Connect:AMP -> Two Sonos Play:5 on the other side of the room.

This works well but I would like the option to listen via headphones as well. I know I can plug directly into the Play:5s but they are inconveniently placed for headphone listening and there's some lag according to everything I've read online. How do I do this? Do I go:

Turntable w/Pre-amp -> Some sort of "splitter" -> Headphone Amp
                                                                                                        -> Sonos Connect:Amp -> Play:5

or is there a Headphone Amp I can buy that has both headphone out and audio out both? Prefer not to add a receiver to the mix.