Random Thought Thread

dontpanicbobby · Feb 28, 2017

What the heck is up with all this Streaming? Does no one buy music anymore? My record store idea seems doomed...

mikedt · Feb 28, 2017

dontpanicbobby said:
What the heck is up with all this Streaming? Does no one buy music anymore? My record store idea seems doomed...

We have record stores in the night market, and they have CDs like "Take My Breath Away, the best of Rammstein"...and half the songs on it are by Bon Jovi.

dontpanicbobby · Feb 28, 2017

LOL. China.

Kaizuroge · Feb 28, 2017

dontpanicbobby said:
What the heck is up with all this Streaming? Does no one buy music anymore? My record store idea seems doomed...

Almost everything here is digital music as well. The only reason companies sell physical records here is for fans to get exclusive pictures and whatever the company seems fit to give out to fans. And of course if you buy a record on its first day out you can also get tickets to a fan sign event where you get to meet and greet the artist/artists.

Dngrsone · Feb 28, 2017

I buy my music, though I occasionally stream (download to tablet) an album to see whether I like it enough to buy.

olbriar · Feb 28, 2017

I'm old school. I have my music library on vinyl... and CD... and digitally ripped. If not for that, I'd be a streaming junkie. I was just born too soon.

Dngrsone · Feb 28, 2017

We still have piles of vinyl, but no room for a turntable...

And bunches of cassette tapes that are probably all ruined by heat.

olbriar · Feb 28, 2017

I still have a turntable but it's not hooked up to an amp right now. Heat is bad for tapes and humidity is a killer. I lost a sizable collection on reel to reel to humidity. I never got into cassettes... my luck.

Kaizuroge · Feb 28, 2017

I still do have a lot of vinyls as well and a turntable. Nothing beats the sound coming of a vinyl.

mikedt · Feb 28, 2017

I've got a Nickelback CD somewhere, that a student gave me when I was teaching in Inner Mongolia. which was originally purchased second hand in the US. And the only thing I've got that can play it is a nine year old white MacBook.

:thumbsupdroid:

Gmash · Feb 28, 2017

Nickelback...so your students hate you?

septembersrain · Feb 28, 2017

Wearing a thick night guard is very uncomfortable. I'm like a baby. Can barely talk, drooling all over myself, and making new faces I didn't know I could.

Dis peef ov pastic isth a paim in my buth. [emoji29]

mikedt · Mar 1, 2017

mikedt said:
Yup. Along with the cheap New Balance sneakers, tagged as sizes 43, 44, 45 and 46. but all are exactly the same size, and too small.

I don't recommend this emporium, especially if you have larger feet, above size 44.

New Barlun :thumbsupdroid:

zuben el genub · Mar 1, 2017

Kaizuroge said:
Almost everything here is digital music as well. The only reason companies sell physical records here is for fans to get exclusive pictures and whatever the company seems fit to give out to fans. And of course if you buy a record on its first day out you can also get tickets to a fan sign event where you get to meet and greet the artist/artists.

Vinyl is making a comeback for purists.
http://cw33.com/2016/09/22/boom-box-is-vinyl-making-a-comeback/

Kaizuroge · Mar 1, 2017

zuben el genub said:
Vinyl is making a comeback for purists.
http://cw33.com/2016/09/22/boom-box-is-vinyl-making-a-comeback/

Doesn't really matter here because companies here don't manufacture Vinyl records. All of it is imported. And imported commodities here don't really sell well. Western Music is just a segment on the radio so selling Vinyls here with only western music artists is just a waste of time. Most of us who listen to western music and like Vinyls order online or trade with other collectors.

Besides there's always an article that says Vinyls making a comeback since the damn 90's it's now 2 decades after the 90's where is the comeback?

Enthusiasts like me and the others will always but Vinyl records because the sound quality is really better. But the thing is if the artists I listen to don't get a vinyl record and it won't in my country.
I will stop buying vinyls.
Last 2014 a record label released their artist's record only through a Sim card and that record made an all kill (means it hit #1 on all 9 music charts here, which is very hard to do even for a physical record)

mikedt · Mar 1, 2017

The only places I've come across vinyl records and turntables being used is by MCs and DJs, for hip hop in clubs. Probably because it's very difficult to do live scratching with a CD or MP3.

There's probably still niche interest in these things for listening, there's still interest in 8-tracks stereo as well I think, isn't there. Vacuum tubed radios etc.

shalemail · Mar 1, 2017

I have been eyeing one of the new "old school" turntables that are USB connectable. Best of both worlds, vinyl but recordable from the source. All that great vinyl hiss.

Gmash · Mar 1, 2017

mikedt said:
The only places I've come across vinyl records and turntables being used is by MCs and DJs, for hip hop in clubs. Probably because it's very difficult to do live scratching with a CD or MP3.

There's probably still niche interest in these things for listening, there's still interest in 8-tracks stereo as well I think, isn't there. Vacuum tubed radios etc.

Vinyl is a niche, but it's a pretty large niche. It's one thing that is uniting the old-school audiophiles and the young hipsters. Take a look around the Google at audiophile turntables. Some of them go for many thousands of dollars. Same with tube amps. Tubes are also getting really popular for headphone amps.

Dngrsone · Mar 1, 2017

Holy carp, the internet is fast... the moment I clicked the authorization button in the Verizon site to pay my bill, I got a text from Verizon saying, "thank you for paying your bill"

I guess that means there actually was money in the account...

lunatic59 · Mar 2, 2017

I doubt they got the funds that quickly. It was just an automated response to you authorizing payment. I'm sure if the funds weren't available, you'd be getting a follow-up text ... or two ... or three ... or four.

zuben el genub · Mar 2, 2017

mikedt said:
Swim swam swum

How do you teach the oddballs that don't follow that rule of declension?

lunatic59 · Mar 2, 2017

swim swam sunk?

Deleted User · Mar 2, 2017

Something tells me it's time to put the kettle on

Good thing this is happening in a VM, and I can actually get on with something else.

Unforgiven · Mar 2, 2017

drink drank drunk?

mikedt · Mar 2, 2017

Sink sank sunk

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