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Now we have MP3s and a lot of people say it's a great thing how music is now not anymore seen in connection with a physical format but only as the sound itself. Great, you've made it from a 12" album with room for cover art, lyric sheet etc to a ringtone for your cell phone. Some people call this advancement. I call it pitiful. People are sticking cheap plastic plugs into their ears and inject badly compressed audio files into they hearing cavity. This doesn't have anything to do with enjoying music. It's consumption on the most primitive level. This whole mp3 culture really pisses me off. And you can take those ugly "docking stations" and disgusting miniature speakers and shove them. Maybe that's why they're shaped so ergonomically. I'm not an audiophile. I'm not the kind of guy who spends thousands of dollars on a hi-fi system but you need some real speakers and you want your music to sound like it has some balls. I grew up listening to Punk Rock and I still believe that the best way to listen to music is really loud, drunk and with a bunch of friends. Fuck an iPod.

Not that I agree completely, but this is still pretty awesome.

some dude wrote:This doesn't have anything to do with enjoying music. It's consumption on the most primitive level.

And collecting plastic discs that you worship and handle like precious religious artifacts is not?

What a blatantly-manufactured, disingenuous rant-on-auto-pilot!

Frankly, this person just sounds like they think buying records gives them an entitlement to be a smug (yet ing'nant) douche to me... and I am a fucking huge record-collecting lamoid fucking NERDDDDD/snobby asshole dickwad elitist who loves buying records and has an inexplicable dislike of the CD format, and who worships and handles his prized records like precious religious artifacts and gets STRESSED OUT thinking about ring wear, creases and using cheap cartridges (not joking either... not that I have a house full of vinyl or anything).

This guy just comes off as the most amazing prick from what I've read... I bet he can afford "the vinyl lifestyle" a lot more easily than most folks. Apparently rich bitches don't realize things like this as they piss and moan about "idiot consumers" who are SO STUPID that they dare to have more realistic priorities and don't save up their meager paychecks for high-end decks and $500++++++ cartridges and speakers (and speaker WIRE) and buy boring (AND RARE!) Jazz records and jerk off on them all day long. Dumb idiots! I bet they never even flew 2 FUCKING AFRICA 2 look 4 rare shit b4... obvz poseurs...

The way this guy writes with such fucking VENOM and superiority makes my skin crawl... Total jackass, out-of-touch, rich bitch elitist prick who doesn't even know it (and is sew in2 PUNK RAWK... 'cuz he clearly "gets it").

PS: FLAC, MOTHERFUCKER.

PPS: Fuck an iPod indeed, but fuck this guy doubly for stealing my catchphrase!!!

PPPS: YOU ARE INDEED AN OLD FUCK, YOU PIG-HEADED, PRICKISH OLD FUCK!

Sheesh, who would have thought some random douche could get my dander up this much?

I think I'm PMS'ing...

Or maybe it's totally natural and should seem obnoxious that someone thinks not buying tons of vinyl/not being able to afford it realistically/owning digital media = FUCKING RETARDS/TECHNO-MONOGOLOIDS who can't leave the computer for 5 seconds... and proceeds to bitch about it endlessly, 'cuz thay obvz got it all fig'ed out, maaaaan, much like I am doing here*...

*I am so sorry...

i just bought:

make believe - of course
joan of arc - boo human
- live in chicago 1999 (Double)
- many times i've been mistaken 7"
- my summer long high wipeout 7"

for $47 tax + shipping in! plus one of the albums comes with three free posters.

fuck yes holiday sales!

this thread went on a tangent!

RossCanyonsofstatic wrote::facepalm:
this thread went on a tangent!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sIeIcOo4rg[/youtube]

Now we have MP3s and a lot of people say it's a great thing how music is now not anymore seen in connection with a physical format but only as the sound itself. Great, you've made it from a 12" album with room for cover art, lyric sheet etc to a ringtone for your cell phone. Some people call this advancement. I call it pitiful. People are sticking cheap plastic plugs into their ears and inject badly compressed audio files into they hearing cavity. This doesn't have anything to do with enjoying music. It's consumption on the most primitive level. This whole mp3 culture really pisses me off. And you can take those ugly "docking stations" and disgusting miniature speakers and shove them. Maybe that's why they're shaped so ergonomically. I'm not an audiophile. I'm not the kind of guy who spends thousands of dollars on a hi-fi system but you need some real speakers and you want your music to sound like it has some balls. I grew up listening to Punk Rock and I still believe that the best way to listen to music is really loud, drunk and with a bunch of friends. Fuck an iPod.

Uuuuuuuh.....if youre listening to punk rock why the fuck do you care about sound quality and compression rate? Get off your fucking cross or die on it.

the raytownian wrote:

RossCanyonsofstatic wrote::facepalm:
this thread went on a tangent!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sIeIcOo4rg[/youtube]

It's ok dig deeper on the blog they profile some interesting people.