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  • I did indeed recognize it as fragile, and each of the tree cannot-be-scratched-with-my-so­ul-remaining-intact discs was slid in and out, one at a time from my old-fashioned stereo while I read the huge liner notes. It was thoroughly mindblowing. Not exactly the same, but I'd say not too shabby for a current 13 year old.

  • My first album experience was somewhere in the middle. A couple months ago, the Ben Folds retrospective came out. I had waited months for it, and begged for it to be pre-ordered. I was told that it was unlikely, and I was probably going to have to wait. October 12 rolled around, and I was heartbroken in knowing that my nerd friend was listening gleefully to it-and I would not for days, or even weeks. Suddenly, my dad showed up in my room with it, and there was much bouncing to be had.

  • @TheTHINNERALBUM That's true to a sence but there are thinkers like my self and others that listen to under ground hip hop. Because that's were the thought provokeing music is at. People that listen to radio and tv think that no one is making that type of music any more!! There waiting for the tv and radio the play it.!!

  • So true, that's fuck d up.

  • Well, this is why I still buy CD's and I have a collection and I love and treasure it. I fucking hate iTunes SO MUCH! and yeah, I download mp3's (illegally) but....it just is what it is. I hate my generation enough...we'll look back on this and have our stories like you.

  • what else made the event so special is anything that was on that magical black disk was more than likely quality stuff.

  • I hear ya completely. I loved the record store so much for a while I ran it.

    The internet makes music easy, but there'll never be anything like walking in a store, digging through the racks, talking to some guy who may turn you on to something you never heard of & vice versa, then dropping your friends jaws with that sound you found.

    You got art, a story, & if the band was worthwhile a flow from one track to the next. That gets lost when you grab that 1 track thats on the radio anyway.

  • Hey, I HAVE licked a record before! Think it was Bob Marley.

  • @thatguitarkid LOL!

  • "It had a look, and a smell, and a taste." Haha.

  • Nice video, luckily there are still optional to go buy a cd/vinyl or download it.

  • Mahavishnu!

  • lol i talked bout something like this with some people, in the "old" times in movie theaters it was aparently a joy to go see a movie especialy a scary movie, because back then u didnt have the ability to do anything u could imagine with technology, aparently when people watched scary movies like the exsersism they would vomit and come out running, so in a sense in the old times u had better apreciation for things, but now we have lost that, and its a lil sad because new stuff wil bjust like old

  • is it the lighting or do you have stubble on only half of your face?

  • That all sounds like a huge hassle. I couldn't imagine if I had to go out EVERYTIME I wanted an album. like what did you do when you saw a music video online and you wanted to hear more from that artist but you were busy? Then what about keeping track of all of these records? Or what if you only wanted to hear one song from an artist then switch to a different song by a different artist? You'd have to put the first one in, get up when it's over and switch them out..what if you were driving?

  • @Jaistar2k22 Man you are one lazy ass mofo buddy

  • @slayersentry man I don't even feel like disagreeing with you but I finally decided today I would say something in response. Ok, like lets say you are going on a roadtrip. about 8 hours I'd say you need 8-10 cd's. You would have to go out, buy them with real money, carry them to the car, switch them out, then if you want MORE music, you have to go to ANOTHER store, buy them once again with REAL MONEY instead of right now where I'm downloading 103 albums for a trip and they all go on ipod.

  • @Jaistar2k22 So your saying that Artists dont deserve your time and REAL MONEY? if you dont think an artist deserves that you spend 15-20$ on an album that has some songs you like on it then dont listen to them! sure I download mp3's all the time but if I find a few songs that I actually like by an artist then I go buy a CD to support them! simple

  • @slayersentry my complaint wasn't about the cost, it's about the fact that you have to reach into your wallet, count money, get change, organize it back into the wallet while with itunes it remembers my card info. Or if you use your card at the store you have to sign it, and stand around waiting until it goes through and it's all too much of a hassle. I'm an impatient person and it would really suck having to do all that waiting, going places, and planning things. I like things fast and now.

  • @slayersentry for example I just found out about a new band and within a few clicks I have all of their songs. Back in the day I would of had to try to remember their name, go all the way out to the music store, ask a sales person, do the whole money exchange thing, THEN go back home which is a huge inconvenience on my part. I don't even go out like that for groceries anymore I order them online that's how the world works nowadays and people and companies need to get on board.

  • Yeah, I don't think he was crying about the state of things. It sounded to me like the brother was just stating what is and suggesting that it's important to begin to adapt to the new music market. That's what I heard anyway. Illdoc1. Keep at it. You have some great articles. I'd say you and the person who hired you deserves a raise. You've got some thoughtful commentary.

    Peace

  • I often wonder what it was like when albums and recordable music first came available on phonographs or something some 100 years ago. It was the first time .. (if you couldn't afford to travel).. you could hear what the rest of the world sounded like. Must have been as exciting as the birth of the internet.

  • @DRUNKENRAMBLE I'm sure of it. We've been blessed to see a lot of global shifts in our lifetime. It's pretty incredible.

  • Man,you are a 100% correct. It was about the experience,an event. You're dope..

  • So Tru...

  • good point but you talk to much !!! omg !

  • Great vid!!! I really love your work!

    nowadays for me (because the last "real" recordstore in my town has closed its doors, sadly) the big exitement is waiting for an mailordered record and then opening it and listening to it. I downloaded the last radiohead album, and if I remember correctly, they gave the chance to download for free or pay as much as you wanted to.

    I bought the real touchable record later via mailorder but downloading it on the radiohead-site was cool too.

  • you would give an excellent rapper, with a total new perspective on life.. rational rap, i would buy your record!!!

  • I'm kind of in love with this guy...

  • @xKineticSparks Me too. Illdoc1 Your wonderful and you excite my Sapeosexual tendencies.

  • @xKineticSparks I second that remark :D

  • @xKineticSparks - me too *sigh* ^ ~ ^

  • I love records and record stores, IMO, a record is a representation of an artist at the time of recording the songs.

  • Albums are just commercials for shows anyway.

  • jacobromu ur an idiot. period. but yes this gentlemen is a genius.

  • I still buy records! well, CD's anyway. I go to the store, like HMV or whatever, CD plus and whatnot, and I don't even look for the thing. I go and I talk to people, about where it is, about what they think of it, about what they listen to, anything. I talk to strangers most often when buying CD's.

  • WOO HOO RADIOHEAD

  • what happened? what did they do and how did they do it?

  • they put free download of the album IN RAINBOWS on their websites because people used to always pirate their stuff, so they said what the hell. lets give them what they want

  • I have to agree with this, in particular the first part. I miss the tangibility of records. And I miss those record shops! There's something so soul-less about the instant nature of accessing music right now and I think it indicative of the very dispensable-attitude towards things these days. Sad days...

  • excellent point

  • woohoo! shout out to chess! lol

  • "don't front like you've never licked a record before" LOL you're hillarious

  • haha seriously, I had to stop 'n think for a moment, but darned if he didn't speak truth, lol.

  • Once the big pressure to make everything super loud and make everyone sound the same came in, I just stuck to performing live and seeing bands live. I get out my 4-track if I want to record now. Analog is more fun - it's the only way to get real fat, organic sound and not fake fat, organic sound.

    Digital is just an economic response to a situation that shouldn't exist.

  • Oh man. Ages ago, I spent years studying to be a recording engineer/record producer. I originally did it with the "dream date with your headphones" experience in mind: Put on your headphones, unfold the sleeve or inlay card, listen to the whole album start-to-finish with your full attention while you look at the pictures and lyrics. Some songs would be louder, some quieter, like a little movie. Anybody still do that?

    (continued next post)

  • I don't download very many songs. If I like a band, I buy their new album. Songs straight off the album have better sound quality than those that are downloaded.

  • i've been steady downloading albums all year. and recently i went to the shop to buy some local albums. i can understand the experience and im buying shit more often now.

  • wtf is the difference between vinyl,cd,and tapes?

    this man has a point but i dont understand how albums get leaked and how artist can adapt to this?

  • How can he adapt to it, buy selling your album online, that's how.

    Download the album for 5 bucks.

  • Well done, well said. I converted to vinyl back in 1999, i was 23. I have not looked back since. I sold many records to cool kids during my ten year "record-store-clerk" career. I still strongly support vinyl records to this day.

  • I watched a doc. on Copyright Laws and Intellectual Property,and it never ceased to amaze me just how ahead of us,people in certain third world countries are in the age of high tech music publishing;ghetto dwellers in Africa and South America have stood the old consumption model on it's head.Pretty soon the industries major artist are going to follow the route of Celin Dion,i.e.,Jay Z will be signing a $150 mil' deal with concert promoter Live Nation.Concert deals are the next frontier.

  • Too bad the stopped selling single tapes. That totally set them up.

  • this was actually a pretty poignant analysis - that is that with the ubiquitous availability of digital music the real value is in the "event" of the record dropping, and that's what bands (such as radiohead) need to figure out how to monetize. word.

  • that's a good point

  • real talk

  • Nicely stated.

  • Fuck Jay Z ... love to vinyl and thats final!!

  • lol i always download music... same with movies and tv series but if it's actually really good then i will still go out and buy a physical copy of the material legally

  • what did radio head do with there latest album?

  • they released it on iTunes.

  • Tell me where the big house full of record execs and beer is - I'll guzzle a keg or 3.

  • What's a record?

  • good memories man.

  • well...thats a pretty broad statement. to think that music just "leaks" itself is retarded. don't you think the companies are behind the leaks???

    furthermore, i, as assume many others, don't download, or care to download, any new records. i wait until the release date, and go down to the store and buy the cd. i like having the actual case/sleeve the whole thing, and i also collect old vinyl. everyone doesn't download, and i guarentee internet will NOT replace owning a record (cd/tape/vinyl)

  • ...or should i say 'my cds'

  • dude, i lick my albums all the time

  • you think the future of music is going to lie in that strategy?

    well thank you captain obvious. and you sayin the 9-11 propaganda was a ''checkers'' move? HHAAHAHAA. I believe Kanye did 957,000 first week.

    don't you use YouTube and the internet as means to broadcast you're jaded views on hip hop as well?

    what we have here is a common case of the pot calling the kettle black.

  • Geez Mr. Not that Jay needs me defending him but for Pete's sake you're on his sack for real! I see that you disagree with EVERYTHING he says in every video he makes, but saying he should be fired 'cause he doesn't see things the way you see them is redonkulous. It seems you are, per your words, criticizing the 'critic' with your own elitist rhetoric. What does that make you?

  • for you to suggest that I cry and complain too much is somewhat ironic given the nature of your relationship with my videos. :)

  • LOL

    [b]illdoc1[/b], Don't you know that your haters are you number one subscribers?

  • *your

  • @Mr92503 Oh Well doesn't have a meaning.

  • @Mr92503 hater

  • The "future of music"? You mean the future of American music. It's not the same. There's a whole world out there, but the monopoly of the music biz has so controlled things till now taht they got you to confuse their rubbish music with music period. It ain't.

  • Well I remember the days of tapes and we had are own type of "leak". The spot close to my high school would sell the new albums the friday before they were supposed to come out but of course he would charge SRP for the tape. It used to be the coolest thing to run out of school during your lunch break and get the newest album and show it off at school.

    O well thats why they call it the GOOD OLD DAYS.

  • spot on, man

  • I usually hate vlogs but yours is sincere, well done, and too true. Although maybe I trusted you more when you held up that Mahavishnu cover!

  • I like the vlog too but I think Jay was almost embarrassed by that album. Look at the video at 1:32. He looks like he's not sure why he bought THAT album. What's the real deal bruh?

  • you know, i while i was watching i was thinking about video games and how your description of how purchasing music "used to be", is exactly the experience some gamers get when buying video games. while they are entirely different i think that the music industry could learn some lessons from the video game industry

  • good video man i really liked it

  • NATION...that made me smile dude. Thanks.

  • lovely lips

  • Well said, well said. Good man! Mayhap I aught subscribe....

  • Well said, and a good message. Nicely done.

  • Nice video. I enjoyed it. Why does it have such low views though. Its professionally made and everything.

  • thanks :) a lot of my videos here were posted on other sites first, so they got most of their views outside of youtube.. but please tell more people to come!

  • @illdoc1 Keep up the good work . your video's are great . From England

  • @RawFeverTV I really, really, really, think that people enjoy STUPID SHIT! They would rather watch a dancing cat than be tuned into something that is authentically intelligent. I am finishing work on my first album, from day one I have been advised to "dumb it up." I was told, "People don't want to THINK and dance..." What???? I don't think it is our nature to be dumb, rather, we have been systematically desensitized to rational thinking. I also think a great many youtube viewers are 7.

  • I can honestly say I never licked a record. lol

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