Originally Posted by mothernature

As some of you already know, I am old. I have a real question, so please go easy on me.....

What is the big deal these days with records? I can understand that if you are doing the rap thing you need to have the ability to do the scratch sound thing, but we gave up records for cassettes. Then we gave those up for CDs. Why? Because they were better.

Better because they were smaller, easier to maintain and lasted longer.

With records, you wouldn't want to take them to a friends to play, unless you knew they had a new needle, because an old/bad one would tear up your records. You also would not let your friends bring over their old records, if you had the new stylus, because you didn't want to tear up your needle.

You can't leave them in your car 'cause they would warp in the heat.

Sound quality.....the first time I heard Pink Floyd's, 'Dark Side of the Moon', I heard things I had never heard before (that could've been the headphones though).

Now the album art is something that was always sorely missed.

If you tell me you collect them for the sake of collecting, I can understand that (I have 2000 comic books that noone can touch without a 2 hour lecture in advance)

So educate me guys......what's the big deal with records?