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Post by lordb on Jan 24, 2019 22:35:01 GMT
All my music, chucked it in the bin.
If I want to listen to music there's 6music and the internet.
Anyone else got rid?
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Post by raythesailor on Jan 24, 2019 22:38:46 GMT
Yep done the same.
Had some really good stuff, with lots of memories and it all went into a skip🤧
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Jan 24, 2019 22:41:28 GMT
Noooooo sacrilige.
History destroyed, no better than what Hitler and his chums, and many others have done.
Akin to burning down the Great Library of Alexandria.
Don't tell me it was Killing Joke stuff too.
You could have Charidee shop or Ebayed it, give it away, left two or three a week on buses {with a note saying 'Free Music'} or summat.
Passed it on.
You Philistine.
No longer a Lord in my eyes.
To the landfill or up in smoke.
I weep.
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Post by auntiegeorge on Jan 24, 2019 22:42:13 GMT
Yes, about 25 years ago. No-one was more happy to see the death of vinyl and the cassette tape than me. Bloody things. (Sorry, vinyl lovers.) Now CDs are practically obsolete and I've been slowly selling off, giving away or trading in my CDs.
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Post by lordb on Jan 24, 2019 22:42:49 GMT
I've kept the vinyl mind...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2019 22:56:14 GMT
No way. My Smiths bootlegs are on Cassette Tape.
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Jan 24, 2019 23:09:57 GMT
Tapes gone a long time ago. Haven't played one for well over 15 years. CD's all deboxed, most inlays thrown away and the CD's kept in big CD wallet file type things. Barely use them tbh. Listen to most of my music on Spotify, the radio or YouTube.
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Post by musik on Jan 24, 2019 23:46:29 GMT
Que? Such modern things as compact cassettes and cd:s??
I've recently discovered them actually.
I've never downloaded something in my life. But You Tube is great! Spotify, nah.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2019 7:17:03 GMT
Nooo !
I must be a dinosaur but I've still got hundreds of CD's and have recently restarted my vinyl collection -I just love the stuff.
Got rid of the tapes years ago though.
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Post by lawrieleslie on Jan 25, 2019 7:33:40 GMT
Sadly I did the same with my vinyl collection about 10 years ago. Didn’t actually bin them but gave them to Mind which is a mental health charity so went to good cause.
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Jan 25, 2019 7:58:35 GMT
Boxes full in the attic,VCR tapes too.
You never know,they might make a comeback.🤑
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Post by chigstoke on Jan 25, 2019 9:24:33 GMT
It won't surprise me at some point if tapes end up coming back in the same way vinyl has done. I've got a fair few records as I'm collecting at the moment. It helps when if there is an album I want and it gets repressed, good stuff. Latest pickup will be the repressing of 'The World Needs a Hero'. Only one release with Sanctuary Records in 2001, and it's about £80 to get a copy. Comes out in February as a remaster, and only £20  |
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Post by auntiegeorge on Jan 25, 2019 9:31:43 GMT
Just curious, for those who still have to dust their old record players: are replacement parts like the stylus and belt still easy to come by these days?
I can certainly appreciate the tactile appeal of sliding a record out of the sleeve, picking it up off the floor and placing it on the turntable. Then lifting the needle with shaky hands and clumsily trying to place it in the groove. But there the appeal ends for me.
Back in the mid 1970s my father demonstrated his then new Sony solid state record player (made in Japan) with a recording of Holst's Planets Suite by Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It sounded superb. I thought this was the end of the Yellow Brick Road. But 15 years ago that same recording had been digitally remastered and issued on CD. This time a 40 year old recording sounded incredible - incomparable and superior in every way to the original issued on LP.
I haven't bought a CD in 15 years, an LP in 30 years, and a cassette tape in 40 years. My car doesn't even have a CD player. It has a hard drive built in. I don't miss any of the old formats. And don't get me going on VHS and Betamax!
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Post by terryesticles on Jan 25, 2019 10:14:23 GMT
It won't surprise me at some point if tapes end up coming back in the same way vinyl has done. I've got a fair few records as I'm collecting at the moment. It helps when if there is an album I want and it gets repressed, good stuff. Latest pickup will be the repressing of 'The World Needs a Hero'. Only one release with Sanctuary Records in 2001, and it's about £80 to get a copy. Comes out in February as a remaster, and only £20
Tapes are shite, all that forwarding and rewinding, getting tangled up etc.
But it seems that they are coming back and are becoming collectable again, probably amongst hipsters and music nerds who think vinyl isn't trendy enough anymore.
It's probably worth checking what they're going for on discogs before you chuck them away.
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Post by yeokel on Jan 25, 2019 10:22:42 GMT
I've still got about 500 LPs, 300 singles, 100 cassettes and about 30 Betamax video tapes.
EDIT - I forgot about my CDs, so addto the list about 300 CDs.
I can't imagine getting rid of any of them although I suspect that once I'm browsing the shelves of the great record shop in the sky, my kids will ship the lot down to the local tip (I hope not though).
(I've still got my slide rules and my original Rockwell calculator from about 1972 too)
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Post by thepremierbanksy on Jan 25, 2019 11:30:44 GMT
It won't surprise me at some point if tapes end up coming back in the same way vinyl has done. I've got a fair few records as I'm collecting at the moment. It helps when if there is an album I want and it gets repressed, good stuff. Latest pickup will be the repressing of 'The World Needs a Hero'. Only one release with Sanctuary Records in 2001, and it's about £80 to get a copy. Comes out in February as a remaster, and only £20 Tapes are shite, all that forwarding and rewinding, getting tangled up etc. But it seems that they are coming back and are becoming collectable again, probably amongst hipsters and music nerds who think vinyl isn't trendy enough anymore. It's probably worth checking what they're going for on discogs before you chuck them away.
Think the reason for a revival in cassette is that it is the only way a lot of artists can finance a physical release of their material, so they do it. Which is fine, unless they do cassette only without a digital release which is infuriating! Cassette player on my stereo packed in years ago. While we're on the subject of analogue technology, I'm after a new turntable at the moment. Anyone have an idea of where to pick up something good second hand? Looking at something like a Rega Planar or Audio Technica LP5. Ebay and Gumtree look pretty limited. Car boot maybe but then it is sold as seen which isn't ideal. |
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jan 25, 2019 11:40:07 GMT
I’ve got all my CDs still and I keep adding to them. I like to listen to the music within the context of the album it was originally on. While I think a lot of ‘Who’ records (for example) still sound great on YouTube etc, an album such as ‘Who’s Next’ presents the music and concept of the group in a much more coherent way. I don’t think you’d get the broad palette of a band like ‘The Clash’ and where they were at, without listening to the Albums. I’m also believe that the sound quality of a CD is superior to a digital file, who’s only true advantage is convenience.
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Post by musik on Jan 25, 2019 12:21:27 GMT
I’m also believe that the sound quality of a CD is superior to a digital file, who’s only true advantage is convenience. Many don't even have a pair of speakers either these days. They listen to one single center speaker or music tower speaker with in-built "incredible surround" technology - or in headphones, or even ear plug-ins. |
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Post by auntiegeorge on Jan 25, 2019 12:37:11 GMT
I’m also believe that the sound quality of a CD is superior to a digital file, who’s only true advantage is convenience. Many don't even have a pair of speakers either these days. They listen to one single center speaker or music tower speaker with in-built "incredible surround" technology - or in headphones, or even ear plug-ins. Depends if the digital file is a lossy MP3 or a FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), in which latter case it is identical to a CD. You can extract a perfect digital copy of a CD using a freeware program called Exact Audio Copy if you want to play digital files but don't have access to a CD player. Then you can store all your audio files on a USB stick without the need for a lot of storage space for CDs. www.exactaudiocopy.de/ |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2019 13:22:09 GMT
Many don't even have a pair of speakers either these days. They listen to one single center speaker or music tower speaker with in-built "incredible surround" technology - or in headphones, or even ear plug-ins. Depends if the digital file is a lossy MP3 or a FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), in which latter case it is identical to a CD. You can extract a perfect digital copy of a CD using a freeware program called Exact Audio Copy if you want to play digital files but don't have access to a CD player. Then you can store all your audio files on a USB stick without the need for a lot of storage space for CDs. www.exactaudiocopy.de/Iife was so much easier with a cassette tape 😁 |
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Post by chigstoke on Jan 25, 2019 15:26:06 GMT
Tapes are shite, all that forwarding and rewinding, getting tangled up etc. But it seems that they are coming back and are becoming collectable again, probably amongst hipsters and music nerds who think vinyl isn't trendy enough anymore. It's probably worth checking what they're going for on discogs before you chuck them away.
Think the reason for a revival in cassette is that it is the only way a lot of artists can finance a physical release of their material, so they do it. Which is fine, unless they do cassette only without a digital release which is infuriating! Cassette player on my stereo packed in years ago. While we're on the subject of analogue technology, I'm after a new turntable at the moment. Anyone have an idea of where to pick up something good second hand? Looking at something like a Rega Planar or Audio Technica LP5. Ebay and Gumtree look pretty limited. Car boot maybe but then it is sold as seen which isn't ideal. eBay sometimes has some great deals if you can snipe one. I got a nice Pro-Ject Essential I for £80 off of there, now it's paired with a Pro-Ject Phono Box E, sounds great (and that's only on some Microlab FC330 2.1 PC Speakers). Will at some point buy some higher quality speakers. Essentials II should have come down in price now, so will the Rega Planar. Pro-Ject Elemental might be a good shout, really depends on if you have a budget in mind! |
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Post by Frogger Theft Auto on Jan 25, 2019 22:40:36 GMT
Other than a couple of PS4 games that were cheaper to buy the disc than to download, I’ve got absolutely no physical media.
I download and stream everything. I can’t believe that DVDs are still a thing.
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Post by musik on Jan 26, 2019 1:34:54 GMT
I download and stream everything. I can’t believe that DVDs are still a thing. You can't smell the digital file, you can't read the digital file, you can't even touch the digital file - the way you can with the LP and it's album artwork, the CD booklet, the dvd booklet. To me it's unpersonal. It's like watching a sex film instead of having sex. The subject is the same, but ... no feeling. |
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Post by Frogger Theft Auto on Jan 26, 2019 8:39:00 GMT
I download and stream everything. I can’t believe that DVDs are still a thing. You can't smell the digital file, you can't read the digital file, you can't even touch the digital file - the way you can with the LP and it's album artwork, the CD booklet, the dvd booklet. To me it's unpersonal. It's like watching a sex film instead of having sex. The subject is the same, but ... no feeling. No it’s not. It’s like having sex on tap with whoever I want in the world whenever I feel like it compared with having to go out, get a missus, woo her, foreplay and then shag her. |
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Post by trentvale68 on Jan 26, 2019 14:29:08 GMT
My cassettes went probably 20 years ago, didn't have that many to be fair as had a CD player since 89 so they were all replaced within a year or two. Still got some vinyl, not much though and have no record player to play them on. Most of them I replaced with Cds as well. Keep them mostly for nostalgia (the days of traipsing up to Lotus Record's Heavy Metal department up Hanley are fondly remembered). Probably got between 500 and a 1000 Cds-now I could never, ever part with them as along with my movie collection they're about all I have to show for a lifetime's work, seeing as my house is inherited LOL!!!
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Jan 26, 2019 21:41:12 GMT
Vinyl is a wonderful medium for music. It's a genuine artifact, a genuine piece of art and a real, tangible possession.
Tapes are and always were janky pieces of shit. I never liked CDs either in their crappy plastic cases.
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Post by partickpotter on Jan 27, 2019 8:07:38 GMT
Never had much in the way of tapes, buy my vinyl went a good few years ago. I've still got loads of CDs but only because they are in a nice cabinet that sits discreetly (and elegantly!) in one corner of the living room. I've not had a disc out of its box for years.
My only regret is, while most music is available now digitally, the exception to that rule is, frustratingly, Misty in Roots meaning I can't get hold of their awesome first album, Live at the Counter Eurovision, or their second equally wonderful release Wise and Foolish.
Any helpful suggestions on this greatfully received.
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Post by potterinleeds on Jan 27, 2019 11:57:01 GMT
Kept tapes that me and the missus made for one another in the 80s, favourite song selections etc. Also bootleg tapes of recordings of live gigs I had been to, when they were available. Everything else gone to the hospice shop.
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Post by foghornsgleghorn on Jan 27, 2019 18:13:08 GMT
Kept tapes that me and the missus made for one another in the 80s, favourite song selections etc. Also bootleg tapes of recordings of live gigs I had been to, when they were available. Everything else gone to the hospice shop. Still got tapes recorded from the chart show in the 80's back when the charts meant something, dodgy editing and all. Anything else on cassette long gone.
The vinyl is neatly boxed under the stairs.
Still buying CD's and not looking forward to changing the car to one without a CD player, but generally using YouTube at home these days. Tried Spotify and it's not for me.
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Post by trentvale68 on Jan 27, 2019 18:16:48 GMT
Yes finger primed on the pause button so as to cut out all the jingle/announcer stuff. Good old days.
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