I'm trying to remember if we ever played some little kids records on one at my folks house when my now teen was little, or if I'm thinking of his decade older cousins.
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I'm trying to remember if we ever played some little kids records on one at my folks house when my now teen was little, or if I'm thinking of his decade older cousins.
My grandpa had a movie player with some Disney movies way back when... that's all I got.
trappedslider
Legend
with your mom
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Juat bought a new turntable, actually, though we've mostly used it for playing CDs and as a Blietooth speaker.
Dollars to donuts a lot ofnthe folks buying Taylor Swift albums at Target have the same system, the Victrola Hawthorne multiple source system. Mine also has FM radio and a cassette player.
However, as can be seen vy my vinyl, I am not cool:
Dollars to donuts a lot ofnthe folks buying Taylor Swift albums at Target have the same system, the Victrola Hawthorne multiple source system. Mine also has FM radio and a cassette player.
However, as can be seen vy my vinyl, I am not cool:
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
One of my hipster friends and I were at an indie music store here in Portland (where all the local hipsters return every spring to spawn.) My buddy was lamenting about how he couldn't find a record he wanted, I don't remember which one, and how "nobody even makes record players anymore." The clerk was all "well, yeah, sound technology has improved a lot in the last half century, dork" and how the sound is so much better on new devices.
Well. That was the last straw. My friend went off on a weird rant about how analog sound is actually so much better than digital, the pops and hisses and static really add to the experience, it makes the music more true to the artist's intent...this went on for a while.
I wasn't going to get involved, I was content to just stand there with a smirk on my face watching these two nerds argue about MP3 players. But then my friend called over to me, "Analog is just more authentic, right CleverNick?"
"Sure, of course," I said. "Hey Marty, give me a quarter."
"Man you know I don't carry change. Why do you need a quarter?"
"I need to use the pay phone."
He spotted the trap right away and just glared at me, saying nothing. So I continued, "I know I have a cell phone in my pocket, but I'm calling (girlfriend, now wife) to set up a date, and I want to sound as authentic as possible."
He continued to glare in silence. If this had been a cartoon, he would have had steam coming from his collar.
"Do you find the pops and static from the payphone outside really add to the experience?" the clerk chimed in, smug as ever.
"Why as a matter of fact--"
"You guys suck," my friend hissed, and walked away.
Well. That was the last straw. My friend went off on a weird rant about how analog sound is actually so much better than digital, the pops and hisses and static really add to the experience, it makes the music more true to the artist's intent...this went on for a while.
I wasn't going to get involved, I was content to just stand there with a smirk on my face watching these two nerds argue about MP3 players. But then my friend called over to me, "Analog is just more authentic, right CleverNick?"
"Sure, of course," I said. "Hey Marty, give me a quarter."
"Man you know I don't carry change. Why do you need a quarter?"
"I need to use the pay phone."
He spotted the trap right away and just glared at me, saying nothing. So I continued, "I know I have a cell phone in my pocket, but I'm calling (girlfriend, now wife) to set up a date, and I want to sound as authentic as possible."
He continued to glare in silence. If this had been a cartoon, he would have had steam coming from his collar.
"Do you find the pops and static from the payphone outside really add to the experience?" the clerk chimed in, smug as ever.
"Why as a matter of fact--"
"You guys suck," my friend hissed, and walked away.
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CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
(I confess, I do own a record player and about 50 LPs. But they're all in storage, where they have been since I last moved almost twenty years ago. I also have a couple of Sony Walkmans in that box, and several dozen cassettes.)
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Ryujin
Legend
Now you've reminded me of one of the (many reasons I don't have any contact with my sister. When my father left, when I was 15, just about all that he left for me were a few graphite 78s that included "Heartbreak Hotel" and "All Shook Up.", the Presley originals. My sister took them, when she moved out.
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I used to work in a room with eighteen 1/4" reel-to-reel decks, most of which worked at any given time. Some of the reels I was at least trying to run on them were just about as old as I was--sometimes they needed to spend the night in the food dehydrator before they'd run; other times they'd explode in a shower of iron oxide powder, or maybe shards.
I did not always love that job.
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