BF2S Forums The 'What Did You Buy Today' thread

Camm wrote:

Uzique wrote:

dr.pepper top trumps just everything

(i buy maybe one soft drink a week, tops)

Really? 1 a week? I drink too much in the way of soft drinks.

I normally don't buy any in routine. It's all if I'm doing something different or need a drink when I'm out. I don't like paying more for water than Fanta.

i can't remember the last time i had a soda. i guess i've had a few energy drinks tho which are worse :p

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Uzique wrote:

it's my new personal pornography. these last 2 years or so i've started to really feel tired of the encroaching digitization of everything, like i've glutted and gorged myself on mp3's and piracy and have-everything-now-all-the-time super saturation. i've totally relapsed into that old-fashioned fetishism for the pure physical object. i'm never gonna buy a cd or an mp3 download again. and fuck e-books. the medium is the message and the old mediums are all the more meaningful.

You're getting older.

But seriously, I've tried e-books and still prefer regular books if I've got space to tote them along (or am at home).

i dunno if it's the fact that i'm getting older or the fact that i've plateaud in the whole 'digital archivism' phase. most people's interaction and experience with music in the post-2000 digital era has more been a task of librarian-like archivism, rather than any genuine engagement with the music. imo most people that download lots of music end up doing it just for the sake of downloading it and having it-- digitally appropriating it to their own vast 'collection' (i have been equally guilty of this for years). people find themselves downloading discographies when they only care for a few songs or perhaps a single album by the artist. it just becomes a case of gluttony and obsessive-compulsive collection, with little to no attention paid to the music or, perhaps more importantly, the process of actually listening to it. i'm convinced that the digital era, whilst freeing music from the 'music industry', is also fundamentally changing the way we listen to music-as-art. it's now something we always have on in the background, as tinkling 'background music' to some other primary activity. music for 99% of people in the digital era is that sound playing in the background from your systray-minimized itunes application. we listen to it in a state of permanent distraction, because of course we can afford to pay it little attention when the music itself has cost us $0. i savour the experience of getting a record, actually looking at the thought and artwork put into its packaging/design/presentation, smelling and touching the record's physicality, putting it on the record-player and actually having to interact with it... as opposed to just clicking a bunch of files in a directory with your mouse and absentmindedly letting it play on some software. it's a whole different experience. i think vinyl (and the cd too, to a lesser extent) will start to make a new modern resurgence tbh. we've had 10 years of "get everything free! it's all there for you to take!" and we've discovered that, for the most part, it's shallow and doesn't satisfy any aesthetic pleasure. it only pleases the archivist, whose activity is purely cerebral and intellectual, and has nothing to do with the sensual and emotional immediacy of music itself.

/writes a book

Last edited by Uzique (2011-12-20 08:28:00)

24 of beer for party on Thursday + New Years

up the game bugz

13t'5 g3t tw15t3d

prolly my favourite longplay all year. had to get it. original kranky pressing.

i know, right? most vinyls i've bought in the past have been dance ep's or singles so you really miss the experience of a good fold-out LP display and some real conceptual thought. makes the record a real 'object' as opposed to just a sound coming from your speakers. it's kinda funny how now in 2011, that sort of 'experience' of music seems so refreshing and exciting. i imagine anyone that grew up in the 50's, 60's and 70's just being like "what's the big deal?" but there's definitely a new-wave of vinyl-loving coming up from young music lovers that just aren't getting their kicks from digital. and it definitely goes deeper than just mere typical nostalgia-for-the-past like you get with lots of other 'vintage' and 'retro' fad crap. vinyl really reintroduces something that has been sorely lost.

Last edited by Uzique (2011-12-21 12:17:53)

so buy some records? they're not that expensive. i think vinyl's pricing is kinda perfect, actually, cause you only buy what you know you'll end up really listening to and really paying attention to and cherishing. 'less is more'. to counterbalance my stupid 750gb digital encyclopaedia i'm going to swing to the other end of curatorial obsession and just hand-pick the finest albums/singles for a new vinyl collection

welp I sent my christmas list to Santa. hopefully I'll be getting a turntable and an LP.

lawl I'll get what I want I asked for Pearl Jam's "Ten" LP

I can see this becoming an obsession, I get what you mean about having a physical object that you can look at, touch, etc. They're a lot more impressive than CDs.

Last edited by Hurricane2k9 (2011-12-21 12:50:28)

It's a reissue with both the original and the 2008 remaster:

http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Vinyl-LPs-Pea … amp;sr=8-1

A lot of bands have been doing back catalogue reissues here. And now a lot of new releases are on vinyl as well.

e: Any tips for maintenance of the records?

Last edited by Hurricane2k9 (2011-12-21 12:53:05)

Butty, pasta, crisps, coke