Jul 22 2008
The Daily Mail - interesting article this morning about one of the things i have been bemoaning about cd’s . the commitment you have to make to listen to a whole cd far outweighs the probable musical value of the cd.
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Jun 30 2008
Fort Worht Business Press -Retired Husband and wife decide to take wife’s record collection (15,000) out into the wild. They wind up opening a record store that sells rufurbed analog equipment. the store sounds incredible. More info, including links at the full story.
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Jun 30 2008
The Marion Star - This is a very cool article about an album collector who had his wares on display in marion (about 30 miles north.) if i had a little more notice, i would have gone up and checked it out.
of note, he mentions the beatles’ “Butcher Cover.”
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Jun 27 2008
Pony Biscuits - has another very interesting article about how vinyl is not REALLY dead. the kicker to this article is that they include a list and stories of the most expensive vinyl available to any collector with a suitcase full of big bills.
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Jun 27 2008
Interesting story about a canadian record store who will be delivering vinyl to your door (calgary residents only!) in a pizza box. See the full story for a roster of releases.
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Jun 26 2008
This is an interesting story. many moons ago, in the town where i was born and raised, there was a flood. i used to hear stories about that flood as i was growing up. the guy who taught me how to take a photograph runs the historical society on the dam disaster. he has posted on his blog today a vinyl rip of a song written about the dam disaster. go see the story for more details!
Just for the sake of google power, the name of the artist and info reads: 5216, “Vocalion: The Breaking of The St. Francis Dam, Jenkins, Edd Rice, Singing, with Guitar”
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Jun 11 2008
Huffington Post - Very cool article about how Fred Meyer inadvertently ordered a ton of the new REM albums. instead of hitting CD, he hit LP, and the stores got a ton of vinyl. The cool thing is, of the stores that stocked them on the shelves, the product SOLD! awesome!
More info -> HERE!
Jun 05 2008
Birmingham Post - This is a great little article covering the Digital is Dangerous manifesto. the best point is granting record shops “national heritage status.”
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Jun 05 2008
Billboard - Billboard announced that by this september, Jim Croce’s original albums will be released not only on CD, but on vinyl. wow.
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Jun 05 2008
60×50 Blogspot - This sounds interesting. This cat is making a list of all albums that were released in 1968.. forty years ago, and attempting to find the ones he doesn’t have, and listen to them all.
More Info -> LINK!
