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Re:Why I Traded My TV for a Turntable by torgoguys on Sunday August 06, 2017 @07:02PM (#14944203)
tldr: TV is bad because it is a time-suck and there are much better uses of my time like switching to an archaic, time-wasting (my opinion) method of playing music with a method that involves having to (quoting him about the difficulty of records): "[remove] the dust it [the record] easily collects, as well as cleaning the stylus [...] Records have 2 sides, each containing a little over 20 minutes worth of music, so you have to flip them. Some albums take up 2 or even 3 records."

Yeah, the above is a little snotty, and if TV was becoming a problem for him and removing it was the only way he could keep himself from wasting too much time on it, fine. But linking that process to taking up vinyl (for unexplained reasons) is a strange turn at the end of the post.

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Re:Why I Traded My TV for a Turntable by hanklazard on Sunday August 06, 2017 @07:46PM (#14944377)
Yeah, the turntable link seemed forced. I went back up to the end of the article after finishing to see if I missed a paragraph or something.

For me, TV is fine. I've been enjoying GoT episodes on Sunday night for the last few weeks. I don't consider an enjoyable show a time-sink, unless you binge-watch for days on end (that's a rarity for me).

As others have said, my cell phone and a variety of interesting websites {cough, cough ... HN ..cough} take-up MUCH more of my time. I'm definitely considering a break from my smart phone, the habits I've developed seem unhealthy. That being said, I would never use my phone at a urinal!

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Re:Why I Traded My TV for a Turntable by EADGBE on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:38AM (#14947770)
Author enforced vinyl unto themselves because it's the latest cool thing to do.

Had we been in the late nineties, author would have taking up trick yo-yos.

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