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by coldtea 914 days ago
About CDs being "nicer tech", even quite a few people growing up in the CD era disagree with that. Vinyl is more tactile, has bigger album covers, demands more focus in the music (like how it takes more effort to skip). CDs are like an awkward in-between phase between vinyl and downloads/streaming.

Besides it's absolutely not vinyl VOCs that will get you. Compared with health low hanging fruit, from diet and exercize, to stress, bad sleep, to BS substances in modern industrial food and city air pollution, it's beyond insignificant.
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ghaff 914 days ago
As someone who has spanned eras, I don't really disagree. I embraced CDs because they were a lot more practical in many ways, but we did lose something in the process--physicality, album art, etc. The same is true with photography or writing for that matter. Ultimately I've always pretty much embraced the new but I understand why someone wouldn't--especially if forced to live through it.
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ska 914 days ago
I thought most people embraced CD's because they were a massive improvement over tapes.
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ghaff 914 days ago
I don't think that's generally true. As someone who was in college during the vinyl era, although I created mix tapes and taped vinyl that others owned, I never did a lot of purchasing of pre-recorded cassettes and I think my behavior was pretty common. Certainly, the "record stores" of the era carried far more vinyl than cassettes.
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ska 914 days ago
Fair, but didn't that change once CD players showed up in cars? Some people were certainly buying up loads of tapes (but they did wear out, so some repeats?)
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ghaff 914 days ago
This suggests that cassettes were never a hugely important medium--maybe in the 80s for a while for the reason you suggest?

https://www.statista.com/chart/17244/us-music-revenue-by-for...

Another chart is this one but it's hard to parse. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/music-industry-revenues-by-...

In any case, pre-recorded cassettes were always a pretty small part of the mix.

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ska 914 days ago
interesting!
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gosub100 914 days ago
> t's absolutely not vinyl VOCs that will get you

I know, it's playing them backwards :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTpK87Eqzbs&t=10s

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