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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

RE: It feels like something of a moot point

Interesting set of responses you received here!

Having never stopped listening to records since the early 1960's, there forms callus on the soul that enables me to clean and flip LP's without thinking about it as some sort of hateful burden. It's like many other aspects of day-to-day living - you dwell on it too long and flossing your teeth becomes an intolerable effort. You gotta let that go...

I have 'thinned the herd' of my record collection down to around 2500 LPs at this point; a comfortable number for various reasons. These are the soundtrack of my entire life. I surely won't replace them with any digital form. That's probably over 20,000 individual "song" titles, plus another 10,00 in my CD library. At $1.29 a 'song' from iTunes or similar I'm sitting on a FORTUNE! Just kidding... The idea of purchasing digital copies of just 1 or 2 songs from each of my treasured albums is unthinkable- it would make the soundtrack of my life sound like it came from K-Tel! Listening to an entire album, critically, from beginning to end is my cup of tea and will remain so.

When CD's came out around 1984, remember people rushing out to replace their LP's? Sure glad I avoided both that and the music-downloading "rushes!" Eventually, when CD's go away, I'll re-adapt but my uptake of new recordings is slowing steeply as I get into my 60's. Yours will too, probably.

On the upshot, I like a good record as well as a good CD - the enjoyment is much more about the musicianship, focus, engineering and overall chutzpah that went into the recording than the presence/absence of "pops and ticks" or "digital artifacts." I also listen regularly to some streamed music, which I see as a great substitute for FM radio listening at a similar level of broadcast quality.

One doesn't have to "miss" anything.




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