The way the average record player owner neglects their turntable these days causes more signal degradation (makes the music sound shittier) than compressing the music into mp3 form.
"hey man, throw a record on"
"yeh, fer sure."
*pulls Tarkus from a pile of dust and records lying on the floor* hissss pop pop crackle buzzzz
"records sound so much better than cd's, man. it's just like, so much warmer, you know? you can really feel the depth of the music this way, not like with cd's."
"yeh, and like,mp3s and shit like that are just too convenient. i don't wanna just have my music spoon fed to me. i like to hold and feel my music. it's like, an experience unto itself, bro." "has the dawn/crackle/has the dawn/crackle/has the dawn/crackle/has the dawn/crackle/has the dawn/crackle/has the dawn...."
"fucking record, just plug your iPod in d00d."
oh, and: vinyl+FLAC ftw.
:You just answered your own criticism. People care about audio quality, duh. Digital fails.
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::Just make a CD already. No one cares about your faux-retro fad. And what's with vinyl+mp3? At least make them FLACs if you actually care about audio quality.
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