![]() The digitized versions of vinyl’s contextual items – thumbnail covers, dynamic lyrics features, and even the often-outdated artist biographies, just seem rather ‘empty’ by comparison.Īuthor Will Self has the same problem with the digitized ‘printed’ word. To load up a streaming app is not quite the “mini-fridge with no beers in it”, as Paul Weller described it, but more like the fridge in which the abundant food is going out of date before you can eat it. Yet, it makes even less sense to think of music in bits and bytes. Why would a digital format use up valuable scarce resources like paper, plastic, and haulage, just for the sake of it? On the one hand, in the digitized 21st century, music as a product makes no sense. Up to now, I have been in two minds on the vinyl resurgence. Walking out of there on a Friday or Saturday with a couple of new albums tucked under my arm has become a highlight of this post-pandemic return-to-routines lifestyle. The whole experience of dropping into my local record shops, chatting with the folks at the counter and on the shop floor, browsing the aisles, having a latte, and all the rest of it. ![]() Like many other music fans of all ages, vinyl has gripped me.
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