And that's vinyl!

Vinyl, what a wonderful way to listen to music. From that moment you take it out of the record shop you own a masterpiece of art, I love vinyl. I think it's the best way that someone could listen to their favourite song/album. As soon as the needle hits the disc as it slips into the groove, you hear that faint crackle and when you've got an old gem of a record it brings images of kids jumping around in the bedroom with tennis rackets pretending to be their favourite rock star. I know that's how I feel when I listen to records, I love to buy second hand because of the history - which people who buy charity shop clothes may understand - but I just love the thought of a kid first picking up that record (as I did), all shiny and new and not being able to wait until they got home to let the needle run across it.

I've been listening to records all day, the sun brings it out of me - I get all nostalgic when the sun's out. But it's the perfect thing to do in the summer, sit in the back garden and listen to a few classics and to hear them in their clearest form is always the best way to do it. So come on Britain, get your record players on!

Vinyl Vs. Digital

The old debate, what's better Vinyl or Digital? Well personally I prefer buying Vinyl's and have so far only ever bought three songs on Itunes, and that's because the artist didn't actually have a CD in the shops. Technically speaking Records are better, due to quality because it is an exact recording of the song, that's why it sounds so much more... what's the word?.. cleaner, I suppose, you can hear what's going on more. Digital is the worst quality of sound you can get though it's impossible to tell. A CD will be something like 35MB per song, what the computer does is cut everything out that isn't needed to make it a more reasonable 3MB, whereas Vinyl has nothing cut out of it - it's exactly how the musicians intended it to be heard.

Conveniantly speaking Digital is better, you can have hundreds upon hundreds of albums on a very small and light iPod that can be carried in your pocket, I struggle to carry twenty Records down the stairs but with my iPod I can carry millions of albums without even breaking into a sweat. Also you have to have a record player to listen to records, most of the time you have to be somewhere with electricity too to plug it in, unless you have a portable - which seem to be a dying breed. I could live in the desert for a day and have music to keep from boredom via my iPod or phone. So in this sense it is digital that is superior.

But! I have one last argument for the Record and this one is for the more creative and artistic people and this is the cover art. Now digital has the tiniest picture in the world, I have to squint to see it if I don't have my spectacles on but when I've got a Record in my hand I can see every detail, it's all so beautiful. And for me that is solely why the Vinyl always wins, apart from the fact that I know somewhere where you could buy Donovan's best of for £1 whereas on iTunes it costs £7.99.