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The guy bought a literal fucking stack of the exact same album????????????????
That's my point. The guy isn't a consoomer because he bought a vinyl from his favorite musician. He is a consoomer for being excessive and buying the store's whole stock.
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.
What if I find something neat and want to have it displayed in my apartment? Using something as decoration is still using it.
Are you one of those ultra minimalistic guys? Tell me, does your bedroom like this...
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That's my point. The guy isn't a consoomer because he bought a vinyl from his favorite musician. He is a consoomer for being excessive and buying the store's whole stock.

What if I find something neat and want to have it displayed in my apartment? Using something as decoration is still using it.
Are you one of those ultra minimalistic guys? Tell me, does your bedroom like this...
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there is nothing wrong with this room
got your bed, laptop, shelf for necessary objects
perfection
 
there is nothing wrong with this room
got your bed, laptop, shelf for necessary objects
perfection
nigger, using a laptop hunched over it from an air mattress on a fucking floor may be "cute" as a joke but when you're 45 years old your back will sodomize you nightly for doing something that stupid and careless to it.
 
Using something as decoration is still using it.
Yes. Using a decoration as a decoration is still using it. Using a vinyl as nothing more than a poster isn't, it is not a decoration it is meant to have a use which is playing music. That specific vinyl is £35, I can get a cd with a fucking poster for £10. If I am using a vinyl as solely a decoration then yes buying anything other than a specific decoration is retarded. Buy a poster or whatever fucking buy a displate overpriced dogshit print or whatever instead of buying a product to essentially throw away the product just so you can keep the packaging. If any of these people did the old fashioned thing of getting the cover and vinyl framed so you could see both at the same time in one frame then I would at least respect it to some degree. But he isn't using the vinyl as decoration he is using the fucking packaging. There is nothing about the vinyl that is worth buying to these people, the sleeve could contain literally nothing and it would not stop these people buying it.

Idk I just think spending significantly more money to buy a fancier version of the same product is dumb when you literally cannot use the extra parts you're paying for. I have several figures from games I love. There were versions that came with the game or didn't. I didn't just decide to buy the figure with a ps4 copy when I already own a copy of the game and do not have a ps4 because it is literally just a waste of money to include a random useless disk when I just want the things around the disk and can buy that part on it's own for much cheaper.
 
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.
Where are you getting your FLAC? Which streamers are you using. Sorry thread, but my husband updated his shit after 20 years and there are so many new things lol. (We like 70s prog okay?)

those that spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a record player that all think the crosley is killing their industry because it's something a high schooler can afford.
Some of the shit we were looking at because we needed new speakers...Like, what does the human ear detect that is worth NASA-approved technology?
Anyway it looks like WIIM is a market disruptor in the same way for streamers.
I'm glad. This audiophile shit is ridiculous voodoo science. Luckily my husband's expensive taste is moderated by his common sense and spiritual jewness.
 
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Where are you getting your FLAC? Which streamers are you using. Sorry thread, but my husband updated his shit after 20 years and there are so many new things lol. (We like 70s prog okay?)
Also sorry thread but I can hopefully answer this succinctly. Either use Soulseek (good if you're after obscure stuff which 70s prog could be? idk), or there are a variety of sources on https://fmhy.net/audio#audio-ripping. Not sure which is best, I have the luxury of access to a paid Deezer ARL so I haven't had to use anything other than Deemix.
 
Some of the shit we were looking at because we needed new speakers...Like, what does the human ear detect that is worth NASA-approved technology?
Oh man you're about to go down a really fun rabbit hole making fun of retards with more money than b rains. Wait 'til you start seeing this bullshit:
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Yes, those are rainforest python-thick audio cables going (and reducing themselves down) to standard little screw-in audio connectors at each end. And in fact this particular installation is "suboptimal" because they aren't using those special $200+ ceramic calibrated discs to raise the precious cables off that lowly floor either. Those cables cost thousands of dollars, by the way, and they connect at each end to bog-standard terminals; the same ones a shitty $5 cable connects to as well.

Audiophiles are a great bunch to laugh at. Not just stupid, but fucking stupid. And gullible too.
 
Also sorry thread but I can hopefully answer this succinctly. Either use Soulseek (good if you're after obscure stuff which 70s prog could be? idk), or there are a variety of sources on https://fmhy.net/audio#audio-ripping. Not sure which is best, I have the luxury of access to a paid Deezer ARL so I haven't had to use anything other than Deemix.
Thank you!

Audiophiles are a great bunch to laugh at. Not just stupid, but fucking stupid. And gullible too.
God I love this ha ha like nigga, why do you think that shit does anything? Like. What even is the physical mechanism and how are you even perceiving that?
Thank you for the laugh.
 
God I love this ha ha like nigga, why do you think that shit does anything? Like. What even is the physical mechanism and how are you even perceiving that?
The absolute best part about those massive python snake cables is that the claim is generally "it's heavily-insulated to prevent signal distortion from interference by external sources." i.e. there's so much insulation, ain't nothin' gettin' through to that sweet, juicy cable inside.

That's why the "but the ends are just standard connectors though" part is such a god damn hilarious punchline. Even if the claim wasn't bullshit in the first place (it is -- these cables are obviously snake oil throughout, not just at the ends), even just 30 minutes in a single freshman-level electrical engineering course will leave you with enough knowledge to understand interference will always enter an electrical system at the easiest access point and follow the path of least resistance. So those stupid little fucking connectors at the ends. And even if the cable itself could magically protect its ends from interference, the terminals themselves, provided by the equipment you're connecting (which are not made of the same magic woo metal as the magic cable) are just as leaky as ever.

Like, great, you're putting really, really good synthetic oil and high-grade fuel in your car, and have outfitted it with the highest-quality components and accessories known to man. It's still a fucking Pinto though.

Seriously though, whoever came up with those cables and convinced the dumbasses to spend thousands on them is a god damn genius and he deserves every penny he's ever fleeced from those morons.
 
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Would you like to buy a $6,500 AC wall outlet for that?
Better yet, don't risk blowing off your cheap fuses and spec up as well
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It's the standard that the audiophile community glazes over.
Make sure you also connect your components properly and spec up with a proper $15,500 RCA cable
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You just know the Monster Cable guys are thinking "fuck me, and to think we were worried we were charging too much for our overpriced junk ... turns out we got priced out of the market by undercharging!"
 
So do audiophiles who are willing to drop 10k on special cables also drop fat stacks to remodel their home into an opera house? Surely the acoustics from the layout and materials of their dwellings fuck with the sound quality too?
 
So do audiophiles who are willing to drop 10k on special cables also drop fat stacks to remodel their home into an opera house? Surely the acoustics from the layout and materials of their dwellings fuck with the sound quality too?
Audiophiles never acoustic treat their rooms. That's a classic.

These people are without a single doubt the biggest retards in history. I have more respect for flat earthers.

records produced today for pop stars, which iirc specifically mentioned Taylor Swift, are made as shitty as possible as they assume the buyer won't ever play it... and they aren't wrong. I'd be surprised if the average consoomer has the attention span to listen to a whole album.
Records produced at any point in time are cheap as garbage because that's the point of this medium. You can't press a vinyl properly because it's not feasible, they are all shit because the format is shit. People bought this garbage before the 80s because there was nothing else that didn't cost a fortune.
 
It doesn't matter what kind of record player or amps you own because vinyl naturally sounds like shit.

Buying vinyl is an open admission that you don't care about the music because if you did you'd own it on a medium that doesn't naturally sound like shit. You'd buy CD or reel to reel.
I see that the superiority of my opinion has ruffled some feathers, come now and tell me why vinyl doesn't sound like scratchy horseshit.
 
we need to start airing PSAs on television for kids explaining to them that, no, someone disagreeing with your opinion doesn't mean they're "mad", nor does it somehow validate it
Yeah it's a bit like flat earthers calling normal people "angry" because they roll their eyes at flat-earth garbage.

Vinyl still sucks ass though. He's not wrong about that.
 
I don't believe an audiophile's hearing is even good enough to appreciate it. By the time they reach 30 or 40 their ears will be sufficiently impacted to make all this expensive garbage physically pointless.
 
I don't believe an audiophile's hearing is even good enough to appreciate it. By the time they reach 30 or 40 their ears will be sufficiently impacted to make all this expensive garbage physically pointless.
The point of mocking audiophiles isn't the endless pursuit of audio perfection, it's the fact that they constantly fall for snake oil products that either don't improve audio quality (literally at all in some cases -- any cable carrying a digital signal either carries the full signal (resulting in audio) or less-than-enough of it (resulting in no audio), so there is nothing the cable itself can do to "improve" the content of what's being transmitted) or actively fuck it up. Those thick-ass python cables are often made of such fucking garbage internally that analog signals get absolutely wrecked and the resulting sound is worse than if they'd just used a $8 Chinesium cable in the first place.

They're not just "chasing improvement" -- they're actively making it sound worse. Of course your point about age just makes it funnier -- their hearing is so bad they can't tell when the audio gets worse so they don't even get angry at the snake oil salesmen when the latest $5k acquisition makes things worse. It's like "sunk cost fallacy" on steroids. Can't admit they fucked up, so they double-down and go full Emperor's New Clothes pretending it sounds awesome.
 
We really need to discuss "neuro divergent " influences and the horrifying quantity of consoooooming that has been ongoing. It is bizarre seeing a mental disable becoming a over consumption trend . I noticed one named candy.courn and she has so many toys it is a technicolor hoarder nest. On mobile, maybe I explaining more later?
 
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