[NewMusic] vinyl?

[weasel walter]

> sorry for the question of the archaic.
> do any of you local music makers put stuff out on vinyl?  just  
> curious...I would like to buy some new records!

i stopped making vinyl releases years ago for a number of reasons. the
quality of vinyl cutting and pressing has taken a nose dive. you just
don't know what you're getting most of the time. with digital media, you
know what you're going to get. the profit margin on vinyl sucks. it's way
more hassle to produce. it takes up more room to store. it costs way more
to ship and to fabricate packaging for. yadda yadda yadda.

i grew up buying records and in the late '80s when they said vinyl was
dying (or whatever) and i was pissed, declaring my allegiance to big
plastic things in paper sleeves. vinyl was cheaper and at that point the
mastering on most compact discs sounded like tinny crap, so at that point
there was a lot of reason to take sides. 

as time went on and i had to start changing apartments every year, the
appeal of vinyl began wearing off. every time i moved, i had to lift an
extra ton of "magic". as i became a "professional" (cough) musician who
needed to pay bills the idea of selling all of these big plastic things
in paper sleeves became very appealing to me, so i did it. people gasped
and said "how can you sell your records?" well, uh, to me at that point
they were just big plastic things in paper sleeves. i could get the
actual music elsewhere without the bulk, pops and clicks and crap like
that, etc. so i didn't see any problem getting rid of them. dunno. i
personally don't see the charm of vinyl at all anymore beyond the fact
that they're "bigger" or something like that. records don't sound
innately better than digital. pretty much all the vinyl i have now is
stuff i can't really sell for anything, so i keep it around because they
have music on them still. 

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