Autism.
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On top of the whole analogue dogma, the addition of financial speculation doesn’t seem to have helped. I’m minded of some watches in the past that weren’t all that they seemed.
“collectable” - even the word makes my left eye twitch.
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For Collector, please read OCD.
He talks slow, moves fast. Fair play
I’m guessing that’s not been knocked together in 5 mins. Chad must be pretty pleased with himself that he commissioned that a while back and then all this shit happened.
From what he’s said promoting it I’m guessing it was done in response but he paid plenty to get it done quickly and well.
Correct. Reaction PR
I’m starting to feel sad that they’ve never pressed an album I’d want to buy, Record butthurt would be a welcome distraction from the butthurt from two right wing cunts constantly on the telly when the only people who can vote for them is 180.000 right wing cunts.
Ah okay, I was doubtful that he could have produced something with that production value in the last week but yes if you throw enough money at it then these things are possible.
Its not hard to see how Chad has built that business up to what it is today.
When I got back into records around 2010,my plan was to only buy what was made upto 1985
It was a shit plan that didn’t really work.
I have records that sound great,and some that are shit.
I have the same with cd.
I personally like records and record players.
I didn’t get back into it for the quality,I just find records more interesting,and it reminds me of my youth.
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Top post. For a second there it felt like t’Wam in ye olde days.
People like things black’n’white. Complexity? Nuance? 'Dem grey areas?
Scary shit.
Over the kerfuffle about formats, a still, small voice whispers in my ear -
“Sound engineers and producers do WAY more damage than ADC can EVER do…”.
Fuck compression.
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Digging into the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of something that draws ‘interest’ is where peoples personal taste and motivators lie.
I collect due to: sentimental reasons, quality reasons, artistic / aesthetic reasons / historical reasons … I could add on, these are all ‘hooks’ that many people wouldn’t care less about.
Due to some deformity I do.
Hypothetical Example:
Here are two pens.
Both are identical but the one on the right was in Neil Armstrongs pocket when he walked on the moon
Which pen is more interesting? In a fumbling way this nonsense contains the notion of ‘story & artifact’ If you are afflicted you may feel the desire for the pen on the right. If this is the case don’t feel too weird. Much of the interest in antiques draws from this well.
It’s always the emotional connotation.
Same with watches, I could buy one in the Esso garage that will tell me fairly accurate time but I don’t want that, I want the story and feel of the engineering. Ego plays a part here (Status), I have interesting things ergo, I am an interesting person. I know may people who define much of who they are via their collection. Something internal is missing and they are trying to fill it with external ‘Stuff’ another big hook. …and the promise of capitalism.
Conclusion there is bugger all logic in obsession.
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I miss obsession, I miss the many and varied passions of youth (and even middle-age), I miss caring more about how I feel about A Thing than I do about its specifications, I miss the emotional connections, the imagined stories.
Age is cruel. Declining mental wellness is cruel. Oh well…
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This.
I have editions of albums in vinyl, tape and digital file which are better than the other formats because of lots of reasons but usually less compression than the others.
I’m not interested in absolutes, and will pick whichever sounds the best for that particular album.
And then there’s sentimental reasons on top which skew things a bit here and there 
Shit is real.
Sarge, that you?
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You can see the passion he still has all these years on
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Porky. Always in it for the music.
that interview was twenty years ago though.
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Yes,he had been doing it for 30 or so years by then,and you can see he still loved it.
I was surprised by how much he had done when I looked him up on discogs