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A few months back, I was in the flush spedning spree of a £2000 medical trial pay off.
Amongst many strategic musical investments made, I picked up 100 vinyl LPs of classical music for a rather remarkable total of £4.99 off of ebay..
Yes boss, I was really LIVING A FUCKING RIOTOUS AND DANGEROUS LIFE BACK THEN!!!!
But seriously. It was a great deal - one of the very many such deals available now, as everyone runs for the wonderful miniaturisation of music, as facilitated by the jesus juice that is mp3's.
Ridiculous buys can be had, that'll not only provide hours of diverse musical joy, but also perhaps act as something of an investment.
Yes boss, it's my guess that at some point in the future the market will shift back around and folk will become interested in owning vinyl once again.
Now I don't for one minute think there'll be a swtrich back in musical time and people'll chucking their ipods in favour of carting portable vinyl decks around with them. No, most standard issue Cd's and vinyl will become more or less completely and absolutely worthless.
I think the real driving force of the market change'll be the quality of the artwork: Picture discs, records with elaborate sleeves, coloured vinyl of key and important acts (much of which was only ever produced in very limited editions) will become it's own very collectable miniature art market...
Anyway, the thing you notice with classical music recordings on vinyl whether they be fiscally important or not, is the degree of volume variation.
Yee boss, whereas there are build ups and breakdowns in the density of sound (in dance music in partiucular), the volume is normalised and stays the same - tracks never start at 2 and end up at 10 - they simply become fatter and fuller.
Classical music does however go for this kind of piano to TREBBLE FORTE!!!!
You notice it particularly at night.
You put a classical record on. and it starts quiet, so you shoot the volume up nice and big, so as to hear the music above the background noise, but because the dynamics are quiet, it's quiet...
Then (usually when you're on the bog, or at the other end of the house, watching the roadsweepers keeping Fish Island pristine) there's a HUGE FUCKING GREAT CRESCENDO and all of a sudden there's a bleedin great orchestra in your front room...
It's good, you should get some classical vinyl in and try it out...
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