{"id":39,"date":"2007-02-16T09:25:48","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T09:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=39"},"modified":"2007-02-16T09:25:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T09:25:48","slug":"i-still-dont-get-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/i-still-dont-get-records\/","title":{"rendered":"I still don&#039;t get records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it the indie\/retro cred that makes owning LPs so cool?  Because I don&#8221;t get it.  For years I&#8221;ve been baffled at how otherwise-normal people can go ga-ga for old records.  I&#8221;ve literally been in the presence of someone telling a story of how her grandfather had just died and in the telling, happened to mention that he had left a crate of old records.  After the story ended another acquaintance of mine actually asked what the woman&#8221;s family was planning to do with the records.  That&#8221;s how much people seem to care, and what&#8221;s the reason?  I understand that a freshly-pressed LP would in theory have better audio quality than a CD or mp3, but for how long can that last?  Surely not more than 5 diamond-needle dragging plays.<br \/>\nI&#8221;d forgotten how much I really didn&#8221;t understand the trend of records until I saw &#8220;this post&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/gadgets\/2007\/02\/review_vpi_h165.html\">http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/gadgets\/2007\/02\/review_vpi_h165.html<\/a> on &#8220;Wired.com&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">http:\/\/www.wired.com\/<\/a> about a $500 record cleaner sold by &#8220;VPI Industries&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vpiindustries.com\/\">http:\/\/www.vpiindustries.com\/<\/a> .  Is that really the price of indie cred AND good music?&#8217;, &#8216;\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it the indie\/retro cred that makes owning LPs so cool?  Because I don&#8221;t get it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[142,248,299],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-fashion","tag-music","tag-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}