Hi,
quoted 5 lines Dude, buy a record player. What's with you guys? There is no excuse! For> Dude, buy a record player. What's with you guys? There is no excuse! For
> the price of a few cd's you can pick up something at the thrift store
> that will at least play. Do yourself a favor. Being into IDM without
> owning a turntable is a blind guy going to the movies. Sure you can kind
> of get the story, but you're missing out on an awful lot...
Stuff that!! I made the decision to sell my decks back in late 1989.
I haven't looked back! I don't miss out on much that comes out on
vinyl that i want because it either get's put on cassette, cdr, or
even hi-fi video with visuals. I have 2 Plugs and both AFX's HAB's
and Ae's "we r why / are y are we?" on a videotape somewhere with the
record labels spinning around as they are played. Not too mention
a heap of other rarer stuff on cassette. :)
The people that miss out on something is the label and artist, because
if this stuff was released on the cd format i would buy it all. Thus
the something they miss out on is the money. Though since it's seems
labels and artists are happy to release vinyl only releases it's not
an unfair assumption (i think) to say that they support home-taping
and the tape trading phenomena.
This doesn't even take into account the limiting of releases to 200
or some other ridiculously small number, which magnifies the phenomena
even more so.
More labels should take a leaf out of Mike Banks book and follow his
example with Submerge and it's admirable goals, which include keeping
most (not all) of what they distribute in continual stock.
Regards,
John