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Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again by cr1895 on Friday June 30, 2017 @10:24AM (#14670919)
12" x 12" artwork/inserts/posters/etc. vs. a small CD box. Many of the records I own are beautifully printed and satisfying to hold. Can be super informative too, with inserts/booklets (of course CDs can also have this info, but often not as nice).

Analog is neat. To me, at least. There's a microscopic groove cut into some plastic in which a tiny chunk of diamond connected to a cantilever is pulled through, and the motion it has gets converted to a tiny electrical signal which gets amplified. To hear this at home on speakers or headphones is cool enough; to hear it in a venue with excellent sound is really something else for me. Something so powerful coming from something so minuscule.

Maybe it's 40, 50, 60 years old, too. It's something that has a history, a past. I can listen to a record made in Brazil in 1968, that somehow found its way to Europe in my hands, or I can buy some sterile, boring CD copy of it. I can listen to my parents' very own records that they had in the 70s, that I also listened to growing up. I can even listen to classical records from before they were born. I can listen to a record from a country that doesn't exist anymore.

Not everything got released on CD (or streaming).

Plenty of reasons one might prefer vinyl over a CD.

Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again by Declanomous on Friday June 30, 2017 @11:35AM (#14671378)
I don't care at all for the act of playing vinyl, but I really love the artwork. I occasionally buy records just for the art. I wish they sold the art separately because it's kind of ludicrous to spend all that money for something that is kind of incidental to the actual product.
Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again by __david__ on Friday June 30, 2017 @09:27PM (#14674751)
Nine Inch Nails did something kind of like that for their latest EP. They sold the art plus a flac download. It wasn’t large 12” art but it was bigger than a cd and… “interactive” (which really just meant “messy”). I would be totally down with more artists doing that.
Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again by Symbiote on Friday June 30, 2017 @12:38PM (#14671841)
Some bands I like sell posters, but I've only seen them at concerts. I can't find any examples on their websites.