This will make you feel old

[Razor X]

Recently I've sold a few old CDs on Amazon, after noting that some of them were fetching some pretty good prices. I also decided to list some LPs I bought for next to nothing back around 1990 or so when they were being phased out.  I haven't got much interest in the LPs until today when I got this inquiry:


It says "LP Record" what does it mean? What kind of media i.e is it a CD, DVD or tape?

Thanks
Larry

My response:

Hi, Larry.
 
An LP record is an old-fashioned vinyl record.  If you have any other questions, let me know.

Later in the day, I got this:

Hi Rob,

Sorry I am not familiar with LP. So it is neither of CD, DVD, cassette. I would need some kind of media player to play this LP, right?

Thanks
Larry

To which I responded by sending a link to a Wikipedia article about LPs.

I'm assuming this is a young kid (at least I hope so).  I asked which LP he'd been looking at, because he didn't specify.  If it's something I have on CD, I think I'll burn a copy of it and send it to him at no charge.

 

[Vash]

UGH! 

I'm 33 years old and I can remember getting laughed at for still having a turn table in high school. Hell even still listening to tapes was as unfashionable then as still using a DiscMan is today! It's all about digital media these days. Even my youngest brother (28) has only vague, hazy memories of our parents turntable (which became mine in high school).

The language of music media is really weird these days. I play in a band and I get confused looks when I talk about the band making a new "record" or "album". At almost every show we play now, people want to know if they can find us on Itunes instead of buying the CD right then and there (Even though the $15 we charge for a CD would be cheaper than the $0.99 per track they'd pay online).

The life span of audio media is shrinking as technology advances at an almost exponential rate. Vinyl (LP/EP as in 78/45/33rpm) had a good run LONG until music became portable with 8-Tracks. which were pretty quickly replaced by cassette tapes. Cassettes ruled the day for quite a while until we were sold the idea of CDs which have been phased out in an amazing way by Mp3s and other digital media.

I live in Portland, OR. and here there is an ultra-hip contingent of hard core mus-o-philes who "collect" vinyl. It's considered Avant Guard to be an indie band and do a limited release collectors run of your latest album on vinyl and it costs a FORTUNE to do it.

Pretty wild... way to make a 30 something feel like an antique....   

"People used to make records as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room" For FUEL by Ani DiFranco

[warhawk]

razor:  dang it... that does make me feel old.

WARHAWK

[Tyler]

So, what's an LP?   

[JDog]

In 10 years time, I'm pretty sure cd's will also go the same way as the LP,8 track and cassette tape.

[Razor X]

So, what's an LP?   

A prehistoric CD.   

[Rob]

So now I feel really old.  Anyone remember 45's?!

[Marz]

I still listen to vinyl records and I scoop them up at ridiculous prices at garage sales etc.

I like digital music and such but when it comes to that old stuff, the record is just how it was meant to be heard.

I do have a lot of CDS and digital music that I listen to but I really cherrish my records

[herronm]

I sold all my LP's a few years back, before MP3 really got going.  I regret it to this day.    I had about 300, all in great shape.  What really sucks is that I have bought and rebought the same "album" on several formats (LP, 8/4 track, cassett, CD). 

[tomgallagher]

Geez, I don't need anything else to make me feel older.

[Sgt. Pate]

LP?  Is that like a 5 1/4" floppy? 

We've got about 200 LPs and some are being converted to CD by a friend who likes doing that kind of stuff... it's kinda cool too because he can filter out the hiss and pops! 

When we bought our stereo, I had to special order a turn table that would play 33 1/3.