Especially after a few of today's earlier posts…
Don't get me wrong, I luvs me my iPod somethin' fierce. It literally holds my entire music collection (12,700 items and counting). But there is something wonderfully organic about the experience of listening to music on vinyl that digital will never be able to reproduce.
I'm so happy to have been able to live through the "big iron" period of audio equipment in the 1970s. It was truly something amazing.
I only wish my hearing was still as good as it was back then. Getting old sucks on so many levels.
I pulled a random record from the shelf tonight, ending up with Dead or Alive's Rip It Up. It was a fun, but not completely satisfying experience, so I moved on to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, an album meant to be heard on vinyl—loud—through headphones.
Rumours is one of the best albums ever, whether on vinyl, CD or I/Tunes.
Ditched my vinyl a long time ago during the advent of CDs, yet still have the NAD & ADS stuff all hardwired, but no I/Tunes/IPod as the hearing is not the same, you say!
This morning the husband wanted me to state that some/many of the iTunes songs are mine also. HA
My Glenn still has his old stuff. He will always have it along with his over 200 vinyl albums. There are some things that are too good to give up. He loves Dire Straits and Mark Knofler. Oh crap, he just told me he has over 6000 songs in his iTunes.