Vinyl Records; A Dying Form of Entertainment?

 

Our lovely web designer, Mr K, skipped into Sendit Towers expressing his excitement at finding his old record player whilst clearing out his attic. Ridding any room full of all the knick-knacks you have accumulated over the years is a tedious task no-matter what way you look at it, so any distraction is a good one if you can find it. Mr K took great pride in the fact that he had saved up for quite some time to purchase his very own record player and he was not prepared to part with it. As you would imagine, this sparked a very lengthy conversation as we all began to reminisce about our childhoods. Mrs N described how she was never allowed to touch the record player in her house because her parents feared that she would scratch their records. She explained how she couldn’t wait to grow up so she could buy her own records and play them whenever she wanted. Mr P asked if everyone could remember what the first record they ever bought was and we were off! Each of us comparing musical our tastes which inevitably led us to the memories we associated with certain records. In the meantime, Miss A sat quietly for the for what must be the first time in her life. Mr P asked her if she owned any records to which she simply replied, “No”. The Sendit Towers staff were in shock! “How can that be?”, they queried, “Everyone owns at least one record!”. Miss A informed them that by the time she was born, CDs had been introduced to the public and that the demise of vinyl records had begun. She said that although there was a record player in her house, it had never been used. How it worked had always a source of great mystery to her as she could never understand how a needle dragging along a spinning piece of plastic could generate music from it. From here, we inevitably arrived at our debate; had vinyl records, like silent movies, become a dead form of entertainment?

The fact that Miss A had never been in possession of a record would suggest that this was the case. We still sell vinyl records on our website so surely that means a demand for them is still present. The question we must now consider is how much longer can vinyl fight for survival? It can be argued that DJs kept vinyl alive as they used for them in their sets. In the good old days we would have seen DJs with headphones the size of your hand and two big record players, or ‘decks’, mixing two records to create one brand new song. Yet in this new technical age, where music can be created via computers and our DJs can download their ‘set’ onto an Ipod, how long can vinyl expect to be of use? Even the Beatles have joined the 21st century as they recently had all of their music combined on one little USB so that we could have all of that musical gold in one place. Of course the problem with that is that little tiny USBs are easily lost. At least records are big and can be easily spotted.

To consider the possibility that vinyl records could made redundant was enough to sadden Mr K and Mr P; they are still determined to use their record players. As a result, we here at Sendit Towers decided to revolt. We will not admit defeat, we will continue to play our vinyl records and be proud! Considerate musicians such as LuLu and Agnetha from ABBA are still releasing their albums on vinyl so let us encourage more to follow suit! Help us to bring vinyl records back into use!

Vive la révolution!

 

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