I'm so confused...
Can't we all just go back to vinyl?
I miss putting needle to groove....

Despite the vinyl "come back" most of the country and public doesn't give a shit. It's a niche any way you slice it. People want to download (and/or) get it for free. I would be surprised if they sold even 500 or 1000 of these discs.

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True. The only kids I know personally who actually like vinyl are musicians. But I'm having fun spinning it and enjoy mixing my old records with the new ones. And I'm back to buying old records again too, not just new ones. But then, I'm old, too.

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True. The only kids I know personally who actually like vinyl are musicians.

True. And too be totally honest, the only people who might like new surf releases are other surf musicians. It's a sad fact that I feel might be true.

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I've downloaded some Dick Dale tracks from HDTracks.com in higher definition audio, those are pretty cool. However, like many here I am old and never have warmed up the sound of digital. When/if I have quality time to devote to listening I'll be collecting vinyl again.

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A lot of the tracks on the Surf Creature series were taken from the original singles, you can hear the occasional click and pop. They were obviously compiled and mastered by someone who really cared about the sound quality and since vinyl is as close to the master tape as you can get, the end result is great. Going slightly off-topic:
Digital sucks. It's ruined music on so many levels, and just sounds thin, brittle, and sterile. Most of the vital psycho-acoustic properties get lost. MP3's are about as bad as you can get.
I don't get it. Is everyone such a slave to convinience that we're willing to accept bad sounding music as the norm? Mp3 players are great in that you can have an enourmous catalog of music at your fingertips, but at home I would much rather listen to the vinyl version
I believe that if I'm going to put all that effort into composing and arranging songs, and spending all that time and money and practice into getting a good tone, why would I accept anything but an analog recording of such? Having had ample oportunity to compare master tape to vinyl, cd, and mp3, I can asure you all that people have been sold a bad bill of goods where digital is concerned to the point where most people can't even tell it sounds bad anymore

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I had a gift card in my pocket ready to be used, but I'm glad I read the thread. I can take the sound of a rough record, the Strummin Mental comps had a ton of pops and clicks etc, but that's an entirely different animal than the squelch of a compressed cymbal on MP3 to me. I don't expect to stop collecting vinyl anytime soon, I'll hang in there and see what I dig up on wax, especially since a lot of these were comped already.

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There are a few tracks on this comp that I tend to skip, but absolutely no buyer's remorse for any reason. I ripped my CD's after hearing them once or twice and stuck it on the shelf; for me, the trade-off between portability and quality is almost negligible at 256K. Digital does sound better if you isolate the sound card from the computer (internal interference may be part of the perceived issue, not just the compression), but I think you're golden if you get a USB preamp and a decent pair of speakers or headphones.

And yeah Norm, I used to walk EVERYWHERE in the 80's listening to my mix tapes, and was just glad for the escape! My compressed MP3's sound a hell of a lot better.

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What's an MP3? I have the records I bought in the '50's and '60's. A box load of 45's that Jeff discovered 16+ years ago. All top 10 Hits from the 1957-1967 time frame. I listen to the Radio, and used my turntable for 35 years before getting some CD's. I don't own or use anything that is MP3.

Lighten up guys...listen to the Music......smile, you're alive and kickin'

Craig the Keg

Hodad makin' the scene with a six pack.

I got it for Christmas and loaded all 4 disks in the dash and its been on rotation since . I know most of the songs, but not by name The recording doesn't bother me either as all my albums were used as a kid and in high school I would make tapes of all my Surf vinyl ,cram it into the deck and drive . The solution to bad audio quality was to just CRANK IT.