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I hung on to vinyl records for years until I switched to CDs and never looked back
I had about 300 records I dragged through three moves. Yeah, they look cool on a shelf but the pops and crackles drove me nuts. Last month I sold the whole lot to a shop in Denver for $400 and bought a used CD player and 50 discs for half that. The sound is cleaner, they take up less space, and I don't have to flip anything halfway through. Anyone else ditch a collection for something more practical?
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phoenix_grant348d ago
Hard disagree on this one. There is something special about the ritual of vinyl that digital just can't capture - the physical act of dropping the needle, the album art at full size, even the warm imperfections that make each listen feel alive instead of sterile. Plus CD cases are so fragile, one crack and you're trying to play a disc that skips every third track. And let's not pretend streaming hasn't already killed the format anyway, most people are just ripping those CDs to a hard drive and never touching the plastic again. Records at least hold their value, you'll get your money back selling them, while CDs end up in dollar bins or the trash.
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clark.alex8d ago
True that about the flipping thing, nobody misses getting up mid-album to flip a record. Plus you can fit a whole CD collection in a milk crate instead of needing a whole wall for it.
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