Soundgasm
My parents have been bugging me for years to get all my vinyl out of their house already. Well yesterday I finally got to feeling like it, so I went out there and got one of my dad’s turntable/stereo systems and all my records. It was a huge PITA to haul all that stuff into the house, and it’s now only resting in my office, it still has to go up one floor to its final home in the bedroom. But OMG, so worth it.
Most of the full albums I had on vinyl have long been replaced by CDs, but the 12″s, the remixes, some of those things just aren’t available digitally. (Especially because I liked some obscure bands whose stuff isn’t exactly at the top of a label’s list to digitize.) Plus the sound is amazing. I am happier than ever that the house next door is vacant, because there are inappropriate levels of audio emitting from my place. (at the moment New Order’s “Touched by the Hand of God” from the flip side of the Blue Monday extended remix 12″. Joy!)
Of course my long-term plan is to rip all of these tracks onto my hard drive so I can have easier access to them, but for that I have to go buy some kind of cable that my friend was telling me about, and for THAT I have to go take a shower and get my happy ass to Best Buy or somewhere, and I am not yet in the mood for all that. But in the meantime, oh so much happy musical goodness. And so much geeky joy to come in the ripping and cataloging process.
Unfortunately I have discovered that chihuahuas are NOT enthralled by bass. They’re a smidge testy at all this noise.
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