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Wanna win a vinyl prize package with some awesome new indie releases? Then enter our monthly prize contest – with new winners every 30 days!
It’s simple, just leave a comment below telling us why you love records, and you’ll be entered. Be sure to leave your email address, and we’ll notify the winner at the end of the month.
Good luck!
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Warm, like meditation, vinyl is the best.
I have loved records since I was a kid…the Thrill of pulling a record out of its sleeve and putting it on the turntable still excites me….I love the way they sound and it’s always cool looking at the art work…I’m glad people are still putting them out!!!
When I put a record on I listen. I pay more attention. I hear more.
I love them because they sound way better.
Vinyl represents the peak of the analoge age and will always be a classic special way to enjoy music. The hiss and pop with the warm sound is an experience that is appreciated by true music lovers.
As a DJ, digging for records is a larger part of my life than rocking a dance floor. I can’t imagine spinning using another format. Spinning vinyl allows 63 years of music from every country in the world, to be potentially added to my ingredients list (since I’m not using 78s). As more and more music is posted to be downloaded off the internet, more and more DJs are just finding the same songs as everyone else. Scouring dusty stacks, and searching for records in the least likely of areas, is the proven way to find the forgotten, and uncovered, gems, that keep my performances fresh. Vinyl is what allows me to have my own unique voice.
I love records for many reasons. I love them because they remind me of a simpler time when there were no cell phones, TVs, nor music videos.
I also love them for the aesthetic quality. Seeing a beautifully colored vinyl always makes me very excited.
The large artwork that is on vinyl sleeves is also a huge reward for buying vinyls.
I love the sound, the smell of a fresh new album and the artwork.
There is not a better thing than a reccord to listen old classics the way they were intended to be listen to. Love my old Maiden on vinyl!
I love the pops, hisses, and large artwork
Vinyl records sound better. There’s a physicality to the sound, a depth. There’s the visual, the tactile, the mechanical aspects. You see the record spin and you hear its sound. There’s the album art, the handleability. Everybody remembers their first album. Nobody remembers their first download. Vinyl has soul.
I love the way they feel & smell.
I love vinyl first and foremost for the personal and improved feel and sound: the moment you hear your version from your vinyl you instantly know by the particular hisses and cracks that make it YOUR album! Also, there’s the larger epic artwork to enjoy while listening, warmer sound, a more involved process of listening, and colored vinyl for a cool cherry on top~!
~Dean
There has never been a cooler media ever used for music media. The artwork, the warmth of tone it can’t be beat.
I love records because of the purity and the way they sound. Its more warm than say a CD. You also get the album artwork which I sometime display on my walls.
i love vinyl, we love the way it brings me back to my youth!
The richness of aural experience that results from the physical relationship between a needle stylus and the microscopic grooves on a vinyl plate cannot be duplicated via translations of digital data. The equipment necessary for the transmission of vinyl information also contributes to the way the sound is ultimately transmiited to our ears and how our brains ultimately interpret that information. The attuned ear can appreciate the richness of the sound, the breadth of the sound field and the subtle gentleness of the impact of the soundwaves on one’s ears.These differences more than justify the addition of analog equipment to one’s bevy of hardware if one can afford it. One indication of the value of vinyl is the plethora of commercial digital software available that has been designed to emulate its sound.
Everything – from touching, through looking to listening to the vinyl record is a metaphysical experience for me. First of all, you feel the dust on your fingers, there’s no feeling like this, you already know you went on a beautiful journey. You’re wondering… Do I know the cover? Have I heard the title? It’s only a few cents, let’s try it. Taking it home, you can not wait to put the needle on the record. Press play. Do you hear the sound of the same dust you felt before? Quiet murmuring noise. Unique! Needle moves along the paths, chills go down your spine. Beautiful music penetrates your ears, you’re lost in the groove. Wow! Is there anything in this world that is equal to this? Not for me. I am not a collector, I am a true vinyl record lover!
I used to put on my parent’s giant headphones, and sit in the corner with the record player for hours. Pulling a record out of the sleeve is done with finesse. The smell of the paper, and then touching the grooves – it’s like touching the music. I also love the artwork…something you don’t get to see with downloads. A record is a movie for your ears…the only way to truly appreciate the work.
Because you can’t tell the cute girl you just met at the house show: “Let’s go lay on my carpet and listen to MP3s.” The social situations it creates and the smell of cardboard and vinyl gets me every time.
Vinyl’s got the MOJO!
I would like to win these records because I love their covers, sounds and it’s so much better than you download some cd from the Internet. This isn’t originally and special. Vinyls represent the bands and the artists. it’s show us soul of autor and their idea of their music
Vinyl is the only form of respect that music gets. CDs, tapes, MP3′s – all forms in which music is tossed around, and lost when the technology is outdated. People download music today like it’s nothing, and they expect to get it for free. When you touch a vinyl record, you do so with care. You take time with the selection of your purchase, pay good money for it, and guard the delicate grooves with your life out of fear for damaging your favorite song. Vinyl will always survive. It is the Godfather to Music.
I love the pop and the hiss, the ritual of listening to each side, and the huge platform for artwork. Not to mention that listening to records on Sunday morning just feels…right!
It’s the last remaining memory of physical music ownership. I love holding a vinyl record, playing it on a turntable, and reading the liner notes.
The genuine perfect quality sound that you hear coming from the turntable gives me chills. Im a sucker for good quality sound and the pops and cracks makes it one of a kind! Ever since i was a child i was into records, watching my dad pick his favorite led zeppelin album out of its sleeve and placing it ever so gentley on the turntable, and dropping the needle carfully! we could sit there for hours watching it go in circles while singing along to dazed and confused! its who i am and its what i enjoy to do! I take pride it and i take very good care of my lps! I know if my house were ever on fire I run in for my Crosley and vinyl records! Everything else can burn! Lol
There is something beautifully organic about the sound of needle on vinyl. The album takes on a different light… one that can’t be matched by on-the-go listening and arbitrary random selections from your mp3. The artwork is more substantial, and meaningful listening is more facilitated by the whole process. No offense to digital, which has done more good than harm to the world of music, I believe… but analog remains essential, and vinyl is magic.
Records are natural and beautiful and actually require us to give something of ourselves in order to unlock their fullest potential.
Love them for the pleasure of hunting for them in record stores, and for artworks
Old vinyl records are artifacts of the past.
New vinyl records are artifacts of the future.
I love the warmth of the music when listened to on a vinyl record.
vinyl has more realistic warm sound
I have dreamt many times of finding rare Gentle Giant albums (ones that don’t really exist) and other colored vinyl lps from bands that don’t really exist either. As a child, I used to take cans from the kitchen and sketch out imaginary records with colorful labels. I miss the days when weekends were spent out hunting for records and books, then hitting the clubs at night to hear some interesting adventerous music.
For starters, my mother had given me a record player and some of her old 45s at a very young age. This was my first major experience with music. I love the asthetic of vinyl. The tones sometimes present themselves in a way that is different from digital formats. Also love the large artwork. I love everything about vinyl.
Sweet.
I love the look, the feel, the smell, of vinyl. And the artwork; a mini-LP cover!
i LOVVEEEE vinyl and records because the sound they produce is timeless. It makes me feel like unicorns, and butterflies, and rainbows, and beer. Please let me win. thats all.
I love collecting and have been since I was little and would love to add to my collection. Merci Beaucoup!
I love vinyl records for the authentic feel they give off once you stick the needle onto the record and the feeling of that old style sound to your ears makes me feel a sense of amazement that something so simple can bring about something so beautiful and overwhelming at the same time. I believe these days music is more electronic and the sound of the radio makes everything sound messy. However with records you hear a much more pure and clean sound that leaves you feeling more fulfilled than a cd or digital format could. It gives you a sense of fulfillment every time you buy a record and listen to the wonderful tracks provided. There’s nothing like taking the vinyl out of the sleeve and playing it for the first time.
They Make You Slow Down.We live in the age of “fast”. Listening to records takes more time than scanning tracks on your iPod, and again, you can not easily load them into your computer. I think it is nice to chill once in a while, and records make you do just that.
I love vinyl because it is a personal experience you get to create with that piece of music.
Because you can’t say to a girl, “Want to come back to my place and listen to some MP3s?”
Warm sound, needle pops, great graphics, what’s not to like?
give me a pop and hiss
I love records because, like a lot of people, I grew up with them. I’ve got a turntable that runs into my PC and listen to them quite a bit. The sound quality, to me, is more familiar and much richer.
I love vinyl because it creates an experience that you can get from a digital download or cd. The warmth the sound, the physical movement…I love Vinyl!
Vinyl is a physical experience. It’s like holding a black wave in your hand and once you put the needle to it there’s this wave of sound that, to this day, is this musical experience that no one has been able to duplicate. Vinyl takes thought, it takes action, it takes time, it requires attention – the listening moments are more meaningful and memorable. I have some awesome memories of listening to my records with friends or alone in my room but I don’t have any I can think of that I can go back to and say “yeah, I remember slapping that CD into my CD player” or “hey, remember when we got together and downloaded that song by so and so” – nothing plays out like the vinyl experience. Besides, it connects us to the past to something we have in common with a whole history of people, family, friends, strangers who all have had their own vinyl experiences and know exactly what we’re talking about when we open up and share.
I’m just a huge sucker for large artwork, and also the fact that records are ingrained within the history of pop music; they have just about existed since recording’s origin. The fact that this seemingly archaic format is still around is an incredible phenomenon; one that I absolutely love being part of.
Vinyl records is such a great medium. I particularly love it because the medium gives you the joy of discovering new music all the time. When you go crate digging, you never know what you are going to find. My weekly crate digs lasts for hours and I always come up with a stack of records that I had no idea I would end up finding. One of the greatest joys of life.
Vinyl, to me, is about the ritual more than anything, even sound quality. It makes listening to music more significant, more impactful, more of an investment than just clicking a song title or pressing “play” on an ipod or a CD player. You can’t listen to them on the go, you can’t fast forward or (easily) skip between tracks–you take the record out of its sleeve, put it on the turntable, clean it, put the needle down, and listen to the album side, in order, in its entirety, the way the artist intended. It’s comforting, it’s exciting, and it may not be the only way I listen to music, but it’s absolutely the most satisfying.
Vinyl has this rather loved feeling. It sounds warmer and fuller. It’s the ideal medium for music.
Just something about the tactile sensation of taking a record out of the sleeve and resting the needle on it. In the era of CD and laptop DJing i still stick with vinyl. Like others have said I am glad it is still going strong.
I love the feeling of flipping through, and re-arranging. Nothing does it like vinyl.
I love vinyl records ’cause they make music even more interesting and enjoyable. Simple as that.
I love good wax!
Records are the purest way to listen to music.
I didn’t grow up with vinyl, i’m a 90s kid so i grew up with cassettes, then discmans, and iPods/mp3. I study sound engineering and have only recently got into vinyl, and holy shit. The sound is a whole other ball park – so real. It fills up the room with warmth, like how a cup of hot tea coats your belly in the morning.