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Originally Posted by Mutt
yes we did, the album art and notes/photos were a big part of the music buying experience when i was a kid. i hated moving on to cassettes and then CD's. lying on your bed listening to the music, holding the cover, looking at the cover art, reading the lyrics - big part of being a music fan/collector in the days of vinyl. very much like buying a hard cover book versus buying a digital version - the sense of touch, smell, actually bonding physically/emotionally with the product. makes me sad that that is disappearing.
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Vinyl is actually in the midst of what I guess can best be described as a 'semi-renaissance'. lol
I bought this record player for my mom on her birthday in May. It's kind of cool looking and converts the vinyl to digital.
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban...RTMENT_ MUSIC
She didn't want it though so she gave it to me with the understanding that at some point it would be my responsibility to convert all of her albums to digital. Sounds like it will be fun as shit but I'm still waiting for them to get the albums out of storage. lol
Anyway, I've picked up about a dozen new albums at Urban Outfitters in the meantime and I really do enjoy the process of flipping through them at the store and everything else like you said. What's great is that the albums, at least all the ones I've bought, have also come with a direct mp3 download which is good because the quality when converting it from vinyl to digital on the Crowley is a bit lacking. I think it's also a great example of not only how it's possible to combine and repackage what is good from the old and what is good from the new.
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban...sp?id=20991485
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban...sp?id=24674111 (I really like the album art on this one)
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban...sp?id=24713844
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban...sp?id=24714073
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban...sp?id=25281072
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban...sp?id=25151523
Also Kid A. One of the best albums of all time with some of the best album art of all time.
Here it is along with some of my other favorite covers.
Also all the beatles albums, the velvet underground warhol cover, the doors, appetite, 'Efil4zaggin'. Also the Lost Highway soundtrack which was in the late 90s.
And this was never a cover but is just so brilliantly awesome in it's simplicity and definitely one of the most iconic music related images of the 80s.
