I was shopping in HMV the other week looking for a new album and was overjoyed to walk upstairs and find the vinyl collection to be less the expected solitary rack and more an entire floor (near enough, anyway). I got that familiar sense of excitement and couldn’t wait to dive in, which I did with abandon.
I totally understand what you are saying but thankfully this hasn't happened to me. I rarely go in to HMV for new vinyl. In fact I rarely buy new vinyl. Oh I do buy it when something comes new along that I like but most of my vinyl buying, and there is a lot of that going on, is at record fairs or second hand record shops. I have that buzz still today when I think of going to the record fair over in Preston tomorrow and flick through the boxes of records while my fingers grow number by the second. Finding records I have wanted for years and some I had forgotten about still fills my heart with joy. Spotify and YouTube are great to check music out on for me but I don't use either as a source of music listening. CD in the car and vinyl, always vinyl in the house.
I agree with this, although it is still sad. It seems like vinyl and cassettes can never really make a true comeback. I am thankful every day that my first and most enduring passion, for books, is still viable. I think the book has retained its status because it contains not only the words (the software!) but the delivery mechanism too. The book is resistant to technology. Even Amazon couldn't shift us to Kindle en masse. Perhaps the romance you associate with vinyl can now be found in the live show? Live music has turned out to be more permanent than recorded music.
I totally understand what you are saying but thankfully this hasn't happened to me. I rarely go in to HMV for new vinyl. In fact I rarely buy new vinyl. Oh I do buy it when something comes new along that I like but most of my vinyl buying, and there is a lot of that going on, is at record fairs or second hand record shops. I have that buzz still today when I think of going to the record fair over in Preston tomorrow and flick through the boxes of records while my fingers grow number by the second. Finding records I have wanted for years and some I had forgotten about still fills my heart with joy. Spotify and YouTube are great to check music out on for me but I don't use either as a source of music listening. CD in the car and vinyl, always vinyl in the house.
I agree with this, although it is still sad. It seems like vinyl and cassettes can never really make a true comeback. I am thankful every day that my first and most enduring passion, for books, is still viable. I think the book has retained its status because it contains not only the words (the software!) but the delivery mechanism too. The book is resistant to technology. Even Amazon couldn't shift us to Kindle en masse. Perhaps the romance you associate with vinyl can now be found in the live show? Live music has turned out to be more permanent than recorded music.