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Life In The Noog – Vinyl or Plastic, Sir?
Over the past couple of years I’ve witnessed the return of the vinyl record. Seems kids these days have discovered the music format most of us discarded years ago and are embracing it as tightly as the Cabbage Patch Kid they were holding the day we threw out our turntables to make room for the new CD player.
The new breed of CD-reared twenty-somethings have dusted off the stack of records we so carelessly left in the basement and are now preaching to us the virtues of a “pristine, unadulterated, purer form” of recording that we were obviously too stupid to truly appreciate back in the ’70s and ’80s.
Well I’m not buying it. Maybe it’s because I was around when vinyl was just about the only format available—and in many ways it sucks. Twelve-inch LPs (okay kids, tell me what “LP” means) are big, round, thin, fragile disks constantly in danger of a number of perils, including scratching, warping, static electricity, chipping and breakage of the record itself, not to mention corner crinkles and disk impressions on the cover.
In fact, my friends and I spent hours perfecting more »
