custom vinyl records<\/a> is because the actual process of buying vinyl, of crate-digging, is possibly my favorite activity in the world. <\/span><\/p>\nThere is absolutely nothing like the joy of picking up a random white label from the bargain bin and finding some incredible deep cut that few people will ever listen to again<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>#6 I like being physically connected to my music<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/13-1024x1024.png\")
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Like a lot of people in here, I enjoy the tangibility. <\/span>There’s something I appreciate about being physically connected to my music.<\/span><\/p>\n I enjoy the ritual of getting up to flip the record over. I experience my vinyl a lot differently than anything I stream or listen to digitally. <\/span><\/p>\nI’m forced to sit through the entire album without skipping tracks–something I find impossible to do when i’m sitting at my computer or listening in my car.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>#7 It’s a ritual<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/10-1024x1024.png\")
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Listening to vinyl always comes with a little work for me and I really like it.<\/span><\/p>\nTaking the record out of the sleeve, looking at the artwork, putting it on the turn table, giving it a quick brush and finally putting down the needle.<\/span><\/p>\nA ritual almost.<\/span><\/p>\nMakes me more attentive to the music.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>#8 I’d rather drop $20 to support my favorite artists<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/9-1024x1024.png\")
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I\u2019d rather drop 20 bucks to support my artists and label and get something that is limited, coloured, tangible and pretty to look at and read, than drop 10 bucks for a CD I was going to pirate anyways.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>#9 I am less tempted to shuffle through songs on a record than on stupid Spotify.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/8-1024x1024.png\")
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To listen to and to look at. I love album artworks, sometimes just seeing an artwork can take me back to a time and an experience, like a smell memory.<\/span><\/p>\nI also love listened to music I’ve overplayed on vinyl, to hear the different sound of the voice and the instruments<\/span><\/p>\nI believe albums were constructed with the intention to be listened to in their entirety. I am less tempted to shuffle through songs on a record than on stupid spotify.<\/span><\/p>\nI<\/span> actually have friends that will not even make it through whole songs. They get high off of the best parts of their favorite songs and then switch songs. <\/span>It KILLS the experience. I also try to only buy old vinyl to avoid digitally remastered. Analog just sounds so nice.<\/span><\/p>\n I have also found myself listening to albums I never would have if I only used itunes or spotify. I have gone into record stores or Goodwill and gotten whatever looks interesting and ended up with something cool.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>#10 It really is a ceremony!<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/24-1024x1024.png\")
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It really is a ceremony.\u00a0 starts with picking a record by looking through your collection, appreciating the art, pulling it out of its sleeve, maybe cleaning it, starting your turntable. <\/span><\/p>\nYou’re involved with the artist’s process of creating the art and what goes into it.\u00a0<\/span>Vinyl’s are really physical pieces, they really showcase the album art, it is that ceremony, it makes you appreciate an album as an album.<\/span><\/p>\nSecond, there’s the sound. My dad has a lot of opinions on this, and I have some of my own. So we’ve gotten into debates, and <\/span>we’ve listened to a CD and an LP of the same album, and it’s a subtle difference, but there is a difference. <\/span><\/p>\nThe vinyl does have a bit more depth and detail than the CD. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>#11 Needle Reverb ! <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\nPlaying a record at decent volume will generate slight reverb on the needles itself.<\/span><\/p>\nThis effect can make music sound MUCH more “alive” for all sorts of reasons!<\/span><\/p>\nFor instance, the natural acoustics of your room will also play into this giving your music characteristics that you are accustomed to hearing (In your room, some people even go as far as to “tune” their turntables to whatever rooms they are using them in).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nBass frequencies can generate even more interesting reverb as they may vibrate the actual record, and of course this will all depend on how your turntable is constructed, what type of furniture it is set on and the construction on the room etc, It’s alive !<\/span><\/p>\nContrast this experience with listening to songs on your iPod headphones, it sounds the exact same every damn time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>#12 Serendipity at its finest.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/27-1024x1024.png\")
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For me it’s the time capsule aspect of it. I mean that in a few ways:<\/span><\/p>\nFinding a record that maybe no one you know even realizes exists and hearing something awesome on it, gives such a remarkable excitement that must be what it’s like to find buried treasure. <\/span><\/p>\nA lot of my favorite song I’ve found didn’t have any acknowledgement of their existence on the internet until I added the albums to Discogs.<\/span><\/p>\nUnderstanding that each one of these records has spent years–decades–living as a prop in some stranger’s life, moving around to who-knows-where from who-knows-where-else is really fascinating. <\/span><\/p>\nFinding something you’ve been looking for forever is great. Knowing that it’s taken some infinitely unlikely journey you’ll never know about to eventually cross your path is really enjoyable to consider. Serendipity at its finest.<\/span><\/p>\nThe fact that the sound waves being created are the exact same decades ago makes it literally the closest manifestation we have to traveling back in time. <\/span><\/p>\nOur ears are feeling almost precisely the exact same sound waves that were vibrating off the instruments and through the air in time past–frozen in time into wax, then molded into metal, then plastic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>#13 It’s a cheap way to discover new music!\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\nIt’s a cheap way to discover new music!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nI’ll take a Saturday morning and go to an estate sale or the thrift store and buy the weirdest or most interesting-looking records I can find. I hardly ever pay more than $1 for a record!<\/span><\/p>\nAbout once a month, I’ll take a Saturday morning and go to an estate sale or the thrift store and buy the weirdest or most interesting-looking records I can find. I end up with a lot of stuff from the 1960s and 1970s. <\/span><\/p>\nI hardly ever pay more than $1 for a record and sometimes people will just give them to me for free.<\/span><\/p>\nI agree with some of the other posts here that the sound is fuller than digital, but my reason for liking vinyl is probably different than most vinyl listeners: it’s a cheap way to discover new music.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>#14 Vinyl is the only way to get ’em!<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/31-1024x1024.png\")
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And on a related note, <\/span>there are many obscure albums that have never been reissued in any digital format. Vinyl is the only way to get ’em.<\/span><\/p>\n