I've never been to a RSD event. Living in a village is probably one reason I know, but when it started up it I was an urbanite and it seemed like a pretty good idea to me - supporting independent record shops etc... where do I sign? There used to be one record shop in my home town called Spinadisc, and it was a very good shop. Friends used to travel up and down to stay with me, with one eye on being able to spend an afternoon record shopping (late 80's/early 90's). I moved away, and returned a good few years later and it had become two stories of CD's, with only half a floor of vinyl, and not very interesting either. It dwindled further and further until vinyl all but disappeared completely. It folded soon after.
In its hey day, it was rammed floor to ceiling. Posters on the wall, graffiti, 7"'s, signed LP's on the walls etc... fag butts on the floor, the smell of beer, grumpy 'too cool for school' shop assistants. Racks of vinyl with categories you didn't know anything about, and categories you did... categories you were only just discovering and finding out about and categories that you simply passed by. Most towns had a record shop just like it, cities had a few more. Fast forward tho, and that had been replaced by a clean, almost sterile shopping experience where the R.E.M section of CD's appeared vast, but was in fact filled with 8 copies of each album. Those slightly more obscure names had dissappeared almost completely. Some of the joy had gone. Still... at least the shop was vaccumed.
So I was behind RSD all the way. To me, it was about supporting the outer edges of music a bit more - the homemade,
truly independent stuff. It was anti corporate without making any kind of statement as such about corporations, it was just that some were actually starving!
Come and support music, and let's give a hand to those actually out there trying to make this stuff. But it's miffed off a HELL of a lot of people. There's this whole tedious fucking debate about vinyl v CD thing to contend with too.
OH FUCKING YAWN YOU GAYLORDS. Vinyl is sex? CD's are infinitely better sound quality wise so shut up?
Why would anyone want to queue? That's my only gripe. Sorry, but I'm not queuing. Ugh.
I have a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon 2M Red Piano something. Had it for three years in a box... mint condition. Think it cost me £180. They say it's the bozboz for the bracket... some other suckers in here it seems
It's gonna sound good to me.
My brother used to be a sound recordist for the BBC. He knows his analogues and his digitals. His 'stuff' is in nearly every format imaginable. Film too. I remember once when I was 19/20 - (he's 16? years older than me), when I started talking about vinyl with him, and he put on a whining sarcastic Python-esque old age pensioner voice wagging his finger at me 'well you do know that cd's are better audio quality don't you?' Sums it up for me.
Keep it coming tho
