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Like many people our age, we have a large vinyl and tape collection, which, because of children, space, technology, etc., has been banished to the attic. Using Napster, we can once again listen to the music we already have on vinyl. We haven't downloaded anything we don't already own on vinyl or tape. Napster has saved us a lot of time and effort in switching to the new technology. MARSHALL AND KATHY LANDIS Baltimore...
...time to enter the Fort. In my next installment, "The Studio: Part One," I'll deconstruct the rock'n'roll album into basic tracks, overdubs, the role of a producer, and why having an engineer with a British accent makes all the difference. Until then, break out that old vinyl LP and give it a spin. The rock'n'roll album is a beautiful and sexy thing...
...Thus began one of my most satisfying obsessions - a 20-year search of any vinyl archive I could uncover. In collectors' shops, record fairs, flea markets, and Pennysavers, I sought my self-appointed Holy Grail. But more on that in a minute...
...find it, finally, one day in Final Vinyl, an LP treasure house in the East Village. It cost me $50, the most I'd ever paid for a record up to that time (I've paid more since). It was an anti-climax, of course - all the really great tunes were on the first one. Maybe I'd changed in the meantime, and was no longer open to the intensity I'd experienced with the original. Somehow Phil Spector had lost the ability to get me there, to put me in the flow, to peak me out. Who knows...
...major record labels are also exploring ways of making the music experience they provide for paying customers deeper and richer. "For decades, we've been artificially constrained by the format of vinyl, by the two sides that play on a record player," says Charles Jennings, CEO of Supertracks, a digital-music distribution company. "That framework is going to be blown away...