Oh yea, my friend is a huge music buff and vinyl sales across the industry is skyrocketing.Kids are buying new albums on cassette tapes again, so maybe they'll return to forums too
I don't get it, really. I have two turntables and hundreds of LPs, but playing an LP is a PITA compared to CDs and I don't think they sound better. LPs get scratchy, accumulate dust/dirt.Oh yea, my friend is a huge music buff and vinyl sales across the industry is skyrocketing.
All pop artists release music now in ALL formats:
- digital
- cd
- tape
- vinyl
Yes, there are relatively few record pressing plants still operating.I don't get it, really. I have two turntables and hundreds of LPs, but playing an LP is a PITA compared to CDs and I don't think they sound better. LPs get scratchy, accumulate dust/dirt.
If I have the choice I'll always buy a CD. I have cassette player/recorders too.
I hear that publishing vinyl has been very difficult in recent times. The wait times are very long to get your record pressed. Not so with CDs.
Just like many of the talking points about the general public, vinyl seekers don't care about its degrading quality.I don't get it, really. I have two turntables and hundreds of LPs, but playing an LP is a PITA compared to CDs and I don't think they sound better. LPs get scratchy, accumulate dust/dirt.
If I have the choice I'll always buy a CD. I have cassette player/recorders too.
I hear that publishing vinyl has been very difficult in recent times. The wait times are very long to get your record pressed. Not so with CDs.
I don't get it, really. I have two turntables and hundreds of LPs, but playing an LP is a PITA compared to CDs and I don't think they sound better. LPs get scratchy, accumulate dust/dirt.Oh yea, my friend is a huge music buff and vinyl sales across the industry is skyrocketing.
All pop artists release music now in ALL formats:
- digital
- cd
- tape
- vinyl
Can you demystify these comments? I read them twice and still don't comprehend them.Just like many of the talking points about the general public, vinyl seekers don't care about its degrading quality.
It's all swag, fun, and cool.
Us nerd forumers think way too much on this (small minority) on cd vs vinyl.
And no one cares... doesn't change the reality of what I wrote.
This forum may be dying, but the Super Bowl isn't. Viewership was up 16% over last year:Does anyone actually give a shit about these sporting events anymore (hyperbolic, of course some people care but viewship has been at all time lows)? I gave up a long time ago and more and more people I interact with have been much more muted about it.
I feel like one of the best things to come from the pandemic was the waning interest in sports culture.
This forum may be dying, but the Super Bowl isn't. Viewership was up 16% over last year:
Super Bowl ratings rebound in a big way for the NFL and NBC
The Super Bowl had a little bit of everything Sunday night: a close game that went down to the wire, an exciting halftime show starring some of hip hop's greatest artists and a Los Angeles venue that added a Hollywood vibe. All of that led to big ratings for the NFL and NBC.www.cnn.com
With about 112M viewers, Super Bowl 56 goes down as the 3rd most viewed domestic broadcast of all time:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_television_ratings
Still looking to be quite a bit lower than the peak years back iin 2015-2017.
And we should all know saying something is doing better than 2020-21 is basically a mulligan by now.
That being said, hard to argue with 1/3 of the US population watching the game to stick with my original proposition "no one watches anymore".
HUZZAH! The BASTIDS!Seems more like a sign that the Olympics are dying, than this forum is!
Having all those great playoff games this year probably didn't hurt either.