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quoted 8 lines I just recently started buying vinyl...it really is WAY more fun than

>I just recently started buying vinyl...it really is WAY more fun than >collecting cd's, and cheaper for the most part. There is soooo much >interesting weird wacky stuff that made it onto record that you'd >never see on cd...and a lot of it is only a couple dollars in used >record shops...granted, its usually not IDM that costs this little, >but its just fun to collect records you KNOW very few people have(or >want). The best of both worlds is ideal. I'll buy cd's AND vinyl from >now on.

this is good to see. i go out and listen to shit every week, both on vinyl and cd, and without a doubt most of the most interesting music released in whatever you want to define as "idm" never makes it onto cd. except maybe for atom heart and bisk (and that byzar record), many of the most memorable releases over the past six months or so are all vinyl-only..."from beyond," fennesz's "instrument," that karaoke kalk stuff, the dot twelves (that's right, most of the best tracks aren't on the cd!), the v/vm comp., the unexplored beats twelves, voigt kampff, the new david morley ep, the schematic twelves, the forthcoming le car ep on sabotage, etc., etc. i can't imagine not having a turntable and missing out on some of the best stuff available... sc