I admit it... I am a vinyl fetishist!
 

It's true. It's absurd. I'm absurd. I realized today that as much as I like music, what I like more is purchasing music on LP.

I bought some LPs today and decided to make note of how I feel during the process. I approach it all with the same dumb wonder as a kid on Christmas. It's magical for me, buying an LP, opening it up at home, looking at it, putting it on the turntable, feeling amazed that the whole set-up actually works and makes music come out of the speakers.

What's wrong with me? How will I ever overcome this addiction?

friends? alcohol? sex? chocolate? suicide?

i totally like all those things better!

I'm a vinyl freak as well, I like the feel of it.

and if you take the first letter of each of those words and rearrange them, it spells "s.t.u.p.i.d."

Really? I only get "a.s.s. f.c."

I would trade in all my CDs for three or four really great LPs.

got into a 12 step program, gmku?

That would mean giving up this habit? No. No way.

i thought that was the point of this thread.

step one: admitting you have a problem.

step two: admitting you're okay with having this problem.

you misunderstand me, carry on with your lp frensy (sp?).

Oh, I understand you perfectly. You're trying to take away my LPs, aren't you! You want me to give up this vinyl thing so YOU can have my LPs. I get it, I get it.

i do feel vinyl collectors make for an expensive effort to buy lps, sure i'd like people to stop being so anal about buying things right away.

but nah, you have decades of advantage against me so why fight it? at least you really listen to your vinyls.

I listen to them. I'd like to sleep with them, but my wife would think that's going to far.

The collector mentality--I can't really speak against it, because I think I understand it. At the same time, I'm not a hardcore collector in the sense of collecting something because of its rarity or value. I collect, or more precisely just buy, the LPs I buy because of what they're worth to me, what they mean to me. But never because I want to be the collector with the most cake.

you know? i get a lot of admiration shit from people because i have boris' vein, they tell me how lucky i am and how much money i would get if i'd try to sell it but i bought it because i love boris, the art is amazing and the album is pretty fucking cool. it's rare, so what? other people have it and you can download it.

Yeah, that's the way i feel. I have to love the thing, otherwise it's worthless to me.

that said, though, I do some weird shit sometimes like buy different versions of an album just because there are different versions. Again,though, it's not because I'm going to re-sell them or because I want bragging rights or anything, but because for whatever reason, I'm interested in it for itself. It's like loving a work of art or a book. Possessing it, having it on the wall or the bookshelf, for some reason is meaningful.

Case in point--today I had the choice between an everyday 70s repressing of Dark Side of the Moon for around 10 bucks or the new anniversary edition for more than twice as much. Because I knew the new pressing included all the cool extras, like posters and stuff, I had to have that one. I wouldn't have been happy with the other "object" even though it has the same music.

well, everybody is different. i for once, have bought the lp even if i had an album already on tape or cd.

In my zany world of ipods on mp3s and what not, is it worth it to go out and buy a turntable?

I've been thinking about it for a long time, but it just doesn't seem worth the trouble. I won't even have the opportunity to buy that much vinyl anyway.