<story><title>Sony plans to make vinyl records again</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/30/vinyl-records-are-so-popular-that-sony-plans-to-make-them-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristiandupont</author><text>I confess, I am part of this trend. And I just got into it, so I get no &amp;quot;before it was cool&amp;quot;-claim to fame. Not sure where that leaves me on the hipster-scale.&lt;p&gt;Buying CD&amp;#x27;s used to be a weekly ritual for me and I missed it for years. Putting on a new album on a Saturday afternoon with a beer or glass of wine while I start cooking is a very enjoyable moment for me. Now, obviously this was for the most part because I would have access to new music. That experience has not come back as I can put on anything on my laptop. However, there is a nice sense to putting on an album and being &amp;quot;forced&amp;quot; to play it from one end to the other. With streaming, I have a tolerance of 10-20 seconds of jarring music before I lose my patience and skip the track. Which is good but also means that I miss out on some of the tracks that take more effort and are in the &amp;quot;acquired taste&amp;quot; category. And in my experience, those tend to stay pleasant whereas the hits suddenly reach a threshold after which I can&amp;#x27;t stand listening to them any more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lastflowers</author><text>Growing up, I would revel in all of my father&amp;#x27;s records.  During the summer I&amp;#x27;d clean up the floor of his closet where he stored them all.  I&amp;#x27;d gaze in wonder at the bands that he never deemed worthy enough to buy the CD for.&lt;p&gt;Much like you, I remember listening to Blood on the Tracks on Saturday mornings playing GameBoy or reading The Hobbit.  We&amp;#x27;d have Asleep at the Wheel playing during a card-game, or overlaying bad sports commentary.&lt;p&gt;Fast Forward to High School.  I was hired as a retail salesperson at a Mom-And-Pop hot-topic like store at the local mall.  Given my somewhat decent taste in music, the shopkeeper let me determine music choice.&lt;p&gt;So now, as I&amp;#x27;ve had Groove&amp;#x2F;Zune&amp;#x2F;Spotify subscriptions going on (basically continuously) for nearly 12 years, I still try to buy at least 15 or so LPs a year.  That used to be CDs, but now that I&amp;#x27;m an adult with some space, I carved out a section for Vinyl records.  They weren&amp;#x27;t purchased for the different &amp;#x27;warmth&amp;#x27;, no, they were purchased because I love  music and vinyl is one of the purest expressions of that love.  It&amp;#x27;s cumbersome and pretty stupid, but it places the art with prominence and connects your body and actions to the music moreso than any other medium (purely since you have to flip sides every fifteen minutes or so).  I like to think back to my saturday&amp;#x27;s playing GameBoy, and now I gulp down coffee while reading Gaddis or Foreign Affairs as Bob Wills blasts throughthe speakers</text></comment>
<story><title>Sony plans to make vinyl records again</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/30/vinyl-records-are-so-popular-that-sony-plans-to-make-them-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristiandupont</author><text>I confess, I am part of this trend. And I just got into it, so I get no &amp;quot;before it was cool&amp;quot;-claim to fame. Not sure where that leaves me on the hipster-scale.&lt;p&gt;Buying CD&amp;#x27;s used to be a weekly ritual for me and I missed it for years. Putting on a new album on a Saturday afternoon with a beer or glass of wine while I start cooking is a very enjoyable moment for me. Now, obviously this was for the most part because I would have access to new music. That experience has not come back as I can put on anything on my laptop. However, there is a nice sense to putting on an album and being &amp;quot;forced&amp;quot; to play it from one end to the other. With streaming, I have a tolerance of 10-20 seconds of jarring music before I lose my patience and skip the track. Which is good but also means that I miss out on some of the tracks that take more effort and are in the &amp;quot;acquired taste&amp;quot; category. And in my experience, those tend to stay pleasant whereas the hits suddenly reach a threshold after which I can&amp;#x27;t stand listening to them any more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eterm</author><text>But why buy vinyl instead of buying CDs?&lt;p&gt;I understand your point about listening to a whole album being preferable to singles, I feel the same way but I&amp;#x27;d still much rather listen to a CD than an LP.</text></comment>