I am not as cool as I think I am
Turns out my recent interest in vinyl records is not idiosyncratic and unique: records sales are up 89 percent in 2008 from 2007. Rolling Stone has this great piece on the surge of vinyl in this digital age. It reads what I have been saying for the past few years: People who are downloading digital 1's & 0's with no album artwork and less audio quality that the compact disc are finally asking why. Vinyl offers beautiful album art, increased audio quality, and a digger's (those bad smelling, greasy haired fellas that spend 4 hours in a used record store "digging" through piles of records to find that one gem) dream because the Boomer's are all dumping their pristine vinyl collections at used book stores because they finally figured out how to use their iPod.
Back to me feeling less unique. One of my Christmas gifts was a gift card to this fantastic record shop in Cincinnati. I walked away with some terrific stuff, but it turns out that Neutral Milk Hotel's absolutely seminal album, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, and Radiohead's OK Computer were the top selling records of 2008. I am not alone. Oh well.
Here are my newest additions:
posted by Joe and Josie Haack at 10:32 AM
5 Comments:
Joe,
You could think of it as though you're not as cool as you think you are or you could think of it as you're the front runner for whom many others are following. By the way, what's the deal with the tambourine headed woman?
and who knew that Schub was making records?
That is hysterical! I totally didn't notice - I think the three earrings look good on Schub.
with the way the economy is going i figured i needed to begin looking into other career possibilities. if my music career doesn't flourish i may look into beard modeling.
And excellent, excellent, excellent, excellent call on OK Computer.
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