Most of the people who do have record players just have Crosley Cruisers, which are basically the lowest of low-end you could get in a place like Walmart, not counting obscure novelty players. You could probably find something on Amazon that is leagues better than that abysmal dogshit Cruiser for not that much more.
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this just looks like a rich person's leisure room, decorating it with logos is gay but its a perfectly functional space rather than an autistic hoard.
The crosley cruiser and any other BSR derived player is fine. If you really care about sound quality, you're buying the wrong format - get an iPhone plugged to an amp, CDs, or reel to reel tapes.
It’s funny because I’m directly in the middle. I don’t think you need either 50 copies of Dark Side Of The Moon or an audiophile quality record player that costs half a million to “get the most out of vinyl.” If anything, I mostly fell out with vinyl and have been going down the FLAC/lossless rabbit hole. I thought vinyl was nice for a while, but I realized that it just can’t be my main format. Too expensive and finicky. Nowadays, I’d rather stick to streaming, and use FLAC files for albums I absolutely love.
I agree, they don't hold a whole lot of music but I like the sound of them, it's not highly impressive quality or anything, there's just something about it that fills the room, but only being able to hold a relatively small amount of music is a downside
I have a very light step, I often scare people at work and elsewhere because they can't hear me coming; Yet, in spite of my seemingly light footsteps, my records scratched at various points because of my walking about the room as they played. I've had the same issue with my cd player, except when my cd player skips it doesn't leave an indelible scratch in the cd.
are you sure that's the reason, and not your player having a problem?
people have a curiosity for unusual things, i don't consider trying weird gimmick foods to be overconsumerism, just natural curiosity and the desire to experience something
Is that a bad thing? It isn't a secret vinyl records today are just another type of collectable merch you buy to support the creator. If a game or movie has a great OST I think it would be cool to own it on a niche medium.
Yes. Buying something that is objectively worse just because you want to look cool and trendy is kinda the theme of the thread. It is functionally useless for the vast majority of people who buy it and when it's not it's still shit. If you replaced the vinyls in that guy's video with taylor swift funko pops no one would be arguing despite them both being a useless lump of plastic that only exist to sit on a shelf. I would be more willing to defend the funko pop in that situation at least, at least they are easier to display and don't pretend to be anything else. Just listen to the guy in the fucking video, not once does he mention the sound quality or the music he only cares about the fucking colour of the things.
Swifties don't know what a record is. They think the black circular thing inside the sleeve is supposed to keep the poster flat.
The theme of the thread is EXCESS. You are allowed to collect things or spend money on useless knick knacks you find neat, the problem is when things get out of hand and turn obsessive. Do you really like an anime and want to buy a figure of a character from the show? Go ahead. Do you have wall to wall k-on merch and maxed out several credit cards doing it? You are a consoomer and need help.
I wonder how that works with OSTs as they are a different animal compared to a traditional musician?
Depends on what kind of OST. If you mean a collection of songs from various artists released as a compilation soundtrack then that's basically various licensing and royalty agreements. Otherwise it would just be dependant on the record label like any other release. I have a feeling you're asking about video games so in that case the musicians get hired to record the music for an agreed amount and most likely aren't getting any profits from record sales, which is a pretty small market compared to the actual video game sales.
The guy bought a literal fucking stack of the exact same album???????????????? Yes you can buy things just because you think they're cool and not be a consumer but the less usable that thing is the lower the limit on how many you can buy before veering into consoomer territory. Buying and reading 100 books and having a bookshelf because you just enjoy reading is fine, buying 50 random books because you want them as decoration isn't. If you do not use the product then you are not buying a product you are just consuming merchandise. The thread is overconsumption, buying more than 0 of something you do not use is overconsumption. This guy is on the level of those kpop retards who went and bought mcdonalds just because the packaging was a special box that they all kept and threw the food away.