Rachell R. (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} horrorbot) wrote,@ 2009-03-23 15:58:00 |
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Although there are places to go, I still haven't left my house yet.
I just got the urge to go through my vinyl collection and listen to a few select tracks. Right now I'm listening to some Hendrix. God, it sounds so great on vinyl. I'm not much of a Hendrix fan, but it does sound amazing.
I can't believe how many Ventures albums I have.
These are all LPs customers brought in to the music store I was working at for a time. They didn't want them anymore, and although we didn't sell records at the time, they wanted us to have them. No money, whatsoever. To them, it was either give it to the independent music store or throw them in the trash.
Before my manager got wise, my co-workers and I would raid the boxes for goodies. This was before the boss would put them in the back for storage. Nowadays anyone that wants one of these records has to buy them through to store, even if they got them for free. It's actually quite sad really.
I don't have a lot yet, just a few. Not enough to re-organize them autobiographically, but enough for me to love all them for being awesome.
Through the years my mode for listening to these gems have changed. When my manager found out I had a thing for collecting 45's, he gave me his old turntable. Before then I was just collecting them, with no real mode to play them. His turntable was great, although it didn't come with a preamp. I managed to jimmy-rig my little cousin's old American Idol Karaoke Machine and get a little volume off it though.
One day my dad went to the rubbage dump and saw his friend there dumping this box with a picture of a casette deck on it. The box looked brand new, so my dad asked his friend if he could have it. The dude was overjoyed and handed it over. Apparenty no one at his house ever took it out of the box, even though the damn stere was from the early 80's! Now I use that. But it still has it's problems. Belt drive issues. Now I've jimmy-rigged that, with the turntable my manager gave me to listen to records.
The casette deck (which has a record player on top of it), is great. I've used it to make mix tapes the old fashioned way, vinyl-to-casette. At one point of my life I made mixtapes to correspond with a certain part of my life, whether it was a soundtrack for a span of days or years. I was inspired by reading an article about Cameron Crowe, and how he used to do it. This was about the time Almost Famous came out. I was amazed that he still had all those tapes, neatly labeled to correspond to eras, to which he said he could listen to these tapes and know exactly what was going on with his life at that time. That's beautiful.
I just got the urge to go through my vinyl collection and listen to a few select tracks. Right now I'm listening to some Hendrix. God, it sounds so great on vinyl. I'm not much of a Hendrix fan, but it does sound amazing.
I can't believe how many Ventures albums I have.
These are all LPs customers brought in to the music store I was working at for a time. They didn't want them anymore, and although we didn't sell records at the time, they wanted us to have them. No money, whatsoever. To them, it was either give it to the independent music store or throw them in the trash.
Before my manager got wise, my co-workers and I would raid the boxes for goodies. This was before the boss would put them in the back for storage. Nowadays anyone that wants one of these records has to buy them through to store, even if they got them for free. It's actually quite sad really.
I don't have a lot yet, just a few. Not enough to re-organize them autobiographically, but enough for me to love all them for being awesome.
Through the years my mode for listening to these gems have changed. When my manager found out I had a thing for collecting 45's, he gave me his old turntable. Before then I was just collecting them, with no real mode to play them. His turntable was great, although it didn't come with a preamp. I managed to jimmy-rig my little cousin's old American Idol Karaoke Machine and get a little volume off it though.
One day my dad went to the rubbage dump and saw his friend there dumping this box with a picture of a casette deck on it. The box looked brand new, so my dad asked his friend if he could have it. The dude was overjoyed and handed it over. Apparenty no one at his house ever took it out of the box, even though the damn stere was from the early 80's! Now I use that. But it still has it's problems. Belt drive issues. Now I've jimmy-rigged that, with the turntable my manager gave me to listen to records.
The casette deck (which has a record player on top of it), is great. I've used it to make mix tapes the old fashioned way, vinyl-to-casette. At one point of my life I made mixtapes to correspond with a certain part of my life, whether it was a soundtrack for a span of days or years. I was inspired by reading an article about Cameron Crowe, and how he used to do it. This was about the time Almost Famous came out. I was amazed that he still had all those tapes, neatly labeled to correspond to eras, to which he said he could listen to these tapes and know exactly what was going on with his life at that time. That's beautiful.
