mcbrion
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Yma Sumac "Mambo." On the original Capitol Records vinyl.
And new vinyl sounds not so great. I don't know what formulation they are using for creating records nowadays, but most of what I've heard is pretty poor compared to most of my collection, which I started in 1964 and stopped only when they stopped issuing vinyl and went to CD. Not to mention the irony that, when the record companies introduced CDs, they swore that "they'll be cheaper than vinyl!" which is one of the great lies of the recording industry. Albums, as late as 1994, costs $11.98. CDs then started climbing up to $14, $17 and $20. And now that vinyl has made a comeback, the albums cost $25???? If they sounded at least as good as 80s vinyl (which was pretty bad: so thin you could almost bend it in half, compared to 60s albums, which were so solid, you could put a coffee cup (with coffee in it!) on the far side of an album, and it would barely bend. And certainly wouldn't fall off!
And new vinyl sounds not so great. I don't know what formulation they are using for creating records nowadays, but most of what I've heard is pretty poor compared to most of my collection, which I started in 1964 and stopped only when they stopped issuing vinyl and went to CD. Not to mention the irony that, when the record companies introduced CDs, they swore that "they'll be cheaper than vinyl!" which is one of the great lies of the recording industry. Albums, as late as 1994, costs $11.98. CDs then started climbing up to $14, $17 and $20. And now that vinyl has made a comeback, the albums cost $25???? If they sounded at least as good as 80s vinyl (which was pretty bad: so thin you could almost bend it in half, compared to 60s albums, which were so solid, you could put a coffee cup (with coffee in it!) on the far side of an album, and it would barely bend. And certainly wouldn't fall off!
