Vinyl making a comeback at Barnes and Noble!

[LynneSin]

This has got to be the smartest thing B&N can do right now. Vinyl Records are making a serious comeback. Let's face it - who is buying CDs today? I know I'd rather just buy the download and save on all that storage.

But a girl still remembers her first love and for me it was Vinyl Records. I only stopped in B&N to get this amazing Blueberry Green tea they had. But when I found out they sold Vinyl, I was there until I found a copy of Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" and Father John Misty "I Love You Honeybear". The number of Vinyl B&N was selling was small but if was a great collection of both old and new releases. The guy at B&N said they plan on expanding the Vinyl Section to something bigger - makes sense.

I need to get a better stereo system, one I can plug into the sound system I have with my TV set.

[hollysmom]

1. it is a small group of vinyl fans

my ex was into it over 20 years ago, had to buy onle y audiophile remastered vinyl.
I found it confusing because the remastering came from tapes - so going back to vinyl seems like not any more accurate. but not my field of expertise.

[kentauros]

2. I buy CDs.

Because Amazon, B&N, and most other big online markets still do not offer FLAC format. Luckily, the obscure groups I like do offer direct downloads of FLAC format on their own sites

[olddots]

3. I buy cds and boycott fucking Barnes & Noble

not trying to pick a fight honest , cds are the best format yet as far as fidelity is concerned .

Art &literature were sold down the toilet by mega bizz but will never die .

[KG]

4. vinyl = hipster bait. those buying vinyl didn't grow up with vinyl.

i ain't going back to skips, snap, crackle, pops, and getting up to change / flip records every 15 mins.

[Aristus]

5. Amen!

All the ridiculous talk about how the vinyl sound reproduction is "a lot warmer, man. More alive..." is horseshit. They never mention the snaps, crackles, & pops, or in what way that's a lot cooler to listen to than "that sterile, soul-less CD crap, dude..."

[KG]

6. a lot warmer, man = low fidelity.

i dig hearing ALL the music.

[madinmaryland]

10. It was a lot warmer 30 years ago. Today, not so much.

Besides, everything has been "digitally re-mastered" such that no one can really tell the difference.

[Arugula Latte]

7. Yep. I don't miss that technology AT ALL.

Digital all the way, for me.

Another thing was with vinyl albums trying to figure out which line to put the needle on to play your favorite song. Cassette tapes were even worse, with the rewind, play, rewind, fast forward, ad infinitem. CDs were an improvement but we always had problems with them skipping.

In one way I'm a bit retro, though. I like to keep all my music on an iPod, not my phone.

[NightWatcher]

8. "hipster bait" I love it. You know what I like about downloaded music?

It doesn't melt when your dad hauls a box of it home for you and keeps it in his garage all summer, in Georgia, on it's side!!!

[madinmaryland]

9. When I got my first CD player back in the mid 1980's the sound did not compare to

the sound from my turntable. 30 years later I can't tell the difference and have no desire to have some monstrosity that has to sit in my living room. I just take my ipod out whenever I need it.