Phill from GCHQ - page 84 - Beat Bob Vinyl
Beat Bob Vinyl - Page 84 of the cartoon about Phill from GCHQ - a free comic that I have been working on since September 2016.
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Introduction to this weeks page
Vinyl has been all the rage for some years now. I have even bought new pressed records by contemporary artists, a thing I would never have imagined back when the whole world made the large shift to CD, a technology I simply have given up on. I did rip a few of my many CDs to FLAC, and whenever I get the time the rest
So now every city that sport a reasonable amount of culture have at least one vinyl-shop - Liverpool of course included.
The owner do look like a fat version of Bill Bailey - when I thought of a small British shop of this sort I immediately thought of Bilbo Bagshot from the TV-series Spaced and Manny Bianco from Black Books. I really just like his face.
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I'm not sure I get why vinyl is so big now. It is not an ideal medium, but there's a mix of nostalgia plus curiosity by younger people. I grew up with it and still have a load of albums. Have also bought a few recent special editions, but they all came with digital versions which are what I actually listen to. That's said, I have some stuff that is not on the PC and I'll still put that on the deck now and again.
I'm a big Bill Bailey fan and have seen him live twice. Such a talented man and Black Books is a classic.
I think the sad fact that musicians can actually make money on vinyl is the main reason it has returned. There is nostalgia for sure, but also a real object that you can buy and very good quality sound. A 24 bit FLAC file is of course equally good or better as you will have less noise and also an easier interface...
I still listen to records quite often. I like that the record or concert is finished and then there is silence or a click, I also don't have all the music as CD or file so if I have to choose between lossy Youtube and an LP I prefer the latter. But most of the music I buy is digital these days.
I don't have space for everything on vinyl. I should really just buy downloads, but I get tempted by CDs. It's interesting that the higher definition formats did not really take off, although I have some high definition recordings on DVD.
Considering that digital formats mostly are lossy aac or mp3 it shows that most people don't really care that much. Many youngsters simply listen to youtube!
People listen to music on different ways. I used to have a crappy little battery radio when I was a kid, but could still enjoy the tunes. Now lots of people use cheap earphones that may be a little better. There have always been the audiophiles, but I go for the middle ground of good source audio and reasonable speakers or headphones.
I used to be a avid collector, and I also had the White Album in my collection. Crazy maybe, but at that time I bought everything my fave bands (including the Beatles) published. As it happened, I later was in a bad relationship, and the b&%§h ripped off my entire vinyl collection.
Something else, mentioned briefly in one of the comments about covers: as a art lover, vinyl albums are the best - and my fave was the inside image on Steppenwolf "For Ladies Only" - looking at the album while listening to the music doubled my pleasure. You just don't get that with a CD.
The LP was the golden age of covers.
Ringo as a Arumbayan fetish!! But hey....the ear is unbroken.
Havent got much to say on vinyls, but I do miss the covers.
I was actually thinking of this:
But yes, it could also be this:
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@dismayedworld 'made' me buy her a record player around 8 months ago. I now have to accompany her to junk markets in search of rare vinyl. Some of the classics are stupid money, like £30 each.
Fascinating that she still is interested. Shows a devoted nature. Some records are extremely expensive, but sometimes you can buy great things for a pound and sometimes I have people simply giving them to me.
There are real reasons some vinyl sounds better than CD; on of them is by choice. Dynamic range compression and "filling up until it clips" have had some nasty consequences.
I digitise old vinyl myself, and I found that digitised copies of 12" singles sound really great; much better than "remastered" stuff you can get on CD or by download.
And: poor Ringo.
Agree. I have had some CDs that was to lousy to listen to. Records just have it all natively. I have never digitsed my LPs as I mostly listen to music in my home, but I do have some music files from a friends made from his record collection.
And: yes.
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You're welcome. I think. Did you use it or something?
Not yet. I am so very slow working right now.
Well, if you want to use it on https://phillfromgchq.co.uk/, you will have to draw two new buttons to stay "in style". More work 😈.
I will gladly help you with your pages on Github while you lie on the floor.
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