"Could you imagine walking into the gym and seeing a bunch of workout fanatics with a turntable strapped to their biceps?"

nice.

There was a similar article in Wired(?) a few weeks
back about vinyl+MP3. For anyone who has never
sampled a true high end system vinyl can
sound amazing, but can be difficult to set up
and tweak.

I grew up with vinyl and have great memories of
hand spinning a kiddie phono up to hard drive
RPMs in a contest to try and play a 45 in under
30 seconds. Later I had a typical BSR "lathe"
and moved up to a basic Pioneer manual,
a Technics linear and now a Linn LP12
for archiving out of print rarities.

Last year Playloop suggested to our distribution company which services iTunes and 20 + other digital music outlets that they should allow customers to download the DRM FREE MP3 320kbps encoded songs at the time of purchase. Then mail the customer the album on CD or vinyl. But this is a lot of adminastrivia that is easier for a individual artist or label to facilitate from their own Web site. Playloop plans to bundle a lot of physical items like CDs, tee-shirts & vinyl together and let peeps download the albums instantly. Artists like Radiohead & Underworld have enough fans to make this model work for them. We will see if the underdogs can make this work 2 :)

If any of you have thought about pressing vinyl or just want to learn more about the science of pressing check out this link.
www.urpressing.com/faq.html

Just in case you aren't down with the term DRM..
DRM - Digital Rights Management - In English (No copy-protection)

-pex media geek

i loved the days of spending hours in a record store going through as many records as possible. it's really not the same browsing through tracks in the digital realm. On the other hand, so much more music is available for a lower cost and much much more convenient. I just moved all of my records from one place to another and hated every minute of the process, but i still hold on to them. cool article! thanks discount.