How old are you?

...I'm a vinyl girl. :P :hi:

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Worse yet, I'm lying: they're probably shellac

:spray: :rofl: :hi: Shhh.... I don't want to give away ALL my secrets... :P

it had Joan Baez, Neil Diamond, Bruce Springsteen and Pink Floyd on it running all the time. He still had it, a dandy model by teac that i told him to hold on to for me.

I never saw a 16 record, but we had a lot of fun playing 33s at 45.

none of the standard settings was ever quite right -- had to fiddle carefully to get exactly the right balance between the desired tempo and the desired pitch

It even played stereo records LOL

But it was waaaaay out of my price range

:)

...OLD? :grr: :rofl:

Spot, come here boy! :rofl: :P

...personally? :rofl:

Nothing like it...

RL

Vinyl. Mono, stero, quad. All vinyl...

RL

Tell em they're old, they complain; tell em they're young, they complain.

:hi:

but still young enough to do it. :)
Carly

who won't get fooled again!

And most of my CDs originally appeared on vinyl. :D

but you need to add something about the downloading ipod generation - Minimanda has a huge music collection, but has never bought a cd....

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Mea culpa!

It's funny to listen to the iPod and hear the sound of the needle landing in the groove.

The authentic music-listening experience!

I get pops & clicks from the more worn vinyl: Stones etc.

I also get pops & clicks from my knees, ankles, etc.

Me & Vinyl are growing old together.

I voted 8-track b/c that is my earliest memory. My parents have (yes have) an 8-track player in their alarm clock. I used to beg my mom to let me listen to it.

Didn't get a cassette player until I was like 12 years old.

I really didn't have a lot to do with it.... :)

in the hopes I could spin out a long line of inane BS based involving your choice of 1978 -- but since you promptly caught on ("really didn't have a lot to do with it"), that plan's shot

Frankly, I have to admit I don't really remember a lot about 1978, except looking at a buncha books on organic chem and group representation theory in spectroscopy and some of van Heijenoort's stuff. Oh, and getting hit by a thrown potato while walking a picket line.

My apologies for ruining your plans...

:hug:

It was a present from my grandfather in 1964.

would be a great retort if the song were actually on the album

That song was

:D

Steam radio.

Not ancient, but no spring chicken. More of a middle aged rooster.
.

but they weren't originally mine- they were old already

whew, that makes me feel much better!

:rofl:

musical sound in reverse.

I play them sometimes, they're good to dust to

.. eventually transfer little specks of whatever is in your mouth onto the disk, to the lasting horror of audio archivists. No, you must vacuum them very carefully ...

I just like to clean house to them!
I have a Record Cleaner Thing which I trust is safe, but in the long run who knows..
I, like, treasure my old records but one time I had a lot of them standing on a low shelf and my cats used the edges as a stratching post. Now the records are fine but the covers are ruined. Animals x(

Does that mean I'm decades older than I really am, or just that my Dad is the cheapest man alive?

I have to go sit in my car

I have my ipod hooked up via cassette adapter though.

"Really, I'm only listening to CDs here cuz I don't have a CD player at home" just doesn't get the "Well OK then" response quite as often as you'd think it would

I did pilfer quite a few of my parents' albums. I love vinyl. Nothing beats the liner notes on a double album. . .

but I guess cassettes were really my thing. Although I remember 8 Tracks too.

Though we didn't get a CD player until I was 7. (Which was in '92.)

It's important.

:rofl:

No, wait, I mean traveling minstrels reporting tales of the Crusades

a fact critically important for the accurate reproduction of a player's extended performance, since paper is relatively easy to punch and roll

so I guess I must have had one of those Fred Flintstone birds with the hard beak that fit into the groove of the spinning record. Vinyl? No, I think it was granite. Rock and Roll!!

as to where my turntable is. When I moved back east, it was in a box with my Marantz receiver, and I never set it up. I have a pretty good album collection, but I don't think I'm ever going to listen to much of it again. I did recently buy an album (from 1964) of an old favorite and had a friend put it on CD for me.

One of the first albums I purchased myself was a Pauk Revere and the Raiders from 1967 at a Woolworth's. There aren't too many of them around, either. (Woolworth's, I mean!)

Mid 60s was a truly awesome time period for music, IMHO. But then I'm biased to that era.

I hated cassettes. They broke so damned easily. It was a helluva lot easier to buy blank cassettes and record the albums to tape. That way, you had an archive copy, and you didn't need to worry about the tape if it messed up.

:evilgrin:

;)

rophonic

:cry: :rofl: :cry:

for steam-powered farming equipment, and I have his autograph from that visit.

I was twelve years old then (1963)

:bounce:

Gotta admit, though, at age 12 I mighta bin more interested in meetin Charlie

And nobody better say 6 months or the like:smoke:.