I associate vinyl with poverty. When I was a kid, for years we had records and cassettes because we couldn't afford a CD player. I hate the sound of vinyl. The hissing, the popping, the scratching, even just the quiet hiss of a record that hasn't copped hell over the years. I don't know why people fetishise that sort of sound; I'd rather nothing but the sound of the songs themselves, no hissing of the medium.
I hold CDs in no regard either, and they're becoming very outdated. The medium for me is digital; I have no interest in music as a physical format. After all, music itself isn't physical; I just want whatever delivers me aural satisfaction in the most convenient and efficient way.
But seriously, god, I remember in the nineties, we all couldn't want to chuck out our records and cassettes. They were a massive pain in the arse - flipping sides, so much clutter, deteriorate badly, the hissing, all of that. Now people are acting as if flipping a record makes the listening experience more personal or something. NOBODY THOUGHT THAT BACK WHEN RECORDS WERE THE MAIN FORMAT! Christ. It was a huge inconvenience. If people in the late seventies came to the future and saw how some people today talk about vinyl, they'd bloody well swing a few punches.
Well done.
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