last time i was up at amoeba music in l.a., i was looking for dubstep and happened to find a dnb tune (life - cybaspace dom&roland rmx) that was used for like $4. i had been looking for this tune forever, even ordered it twice from overseas and once was cancelled, second time they took my payment and didn't return my contact attempts. i pretty much gave up until then thinking it was not meant to be.
it figures that i would find it for a few bucks when i'm not looking for it... hahaha
i will NEVER get this excitement from downloading anything. never.
plus vinyl feels good, it's fun, and to me, it makes djing feel legitimate as a hobby. i just don't feel like i can walk into a place with cd's or a laptop and feel like i'm doing something that i should be payed for... that's a personal thing though. it just feels good to 'put a record on.' not really so for 'putting a cd in' or 'pressing space bar on the laptop'
if i'm at a free show, or seeing local talent, i don't care what people are playing on... but if i pay good money to see someone from out of town come rock it, i get really bummed when i see cds, serato, or laptops. i want the real thing.
like i said before, real
bands don't cut corners because their gear is too heavy, or too much to take traveling, or too expensive to keep up... they do it because that's how they want it, and that's just how it is. they don't really tour with everything they would use in the studio, but you get the point. i hate to see my favorite professional producers and djs 'cutting corners' instead of cutting vinyl.
as much appeal as digital has to the person buying the digi gear and mp3s- i have never heard any appealing aspect to the audience that would favor digital over vinyl. maybe the freshness of dubs? this also introduces the whole quality control thing which i will not get into.
final argument- i saw judge jules in LA one time playing off cdjs and that shit started skipping. WTF, in front of thousands of people! granted he could have had the same or similar problem playing records, but people might have been more sympathetic... i.e. "oh man, that sucks" instead of "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
it was funny as hell and i'm sure embarrassing. the fact that everyone in the room simultaneously thought 'damn dude, cd players are sooooo lame' or something to that effect is evidence enough to me that it is a pretty universal opinion, no matter what digi supporters say.
to each their own though, i don't really care that much about this- but i really wish everyone hated digital
there are quite a few shite tunes on vinyl too...
