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GET INTO COLLECTING VINYLS

I have a pretty decent sized vinyl collection, but by seeing a physical copy of the artists music is really cool to me. You don’t experience it as each song individually, but you experience the album in its entirety in order, and you get to see even more love put into it by the way the cover is arranged and sometimes they put in little trinkets to let you know that the artist really loves you.

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VINYLS AS A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE

I have to be quite real. I love buying vinyls when I can. For me, there’s something really special about listening to an album on vinyl. It is such a comfort to me especially since I spend a lot of time alone. To me, I’m not just buying a physical item but an emotional experience that I can relive over and over again. To experience music in this way, to me, feels intimate and spiritual. I think it’s worth it. Maybe this is a really dramatic way for me to justify something silly. But it really makes me happy! Ps. another thing I love about vinyls that I forgot to mention is the ritual of it. I love clicking the start button and flipping it over when side a is done. Ok I’m done geeking out about it, thank you for reading.

@valoorie

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YES, BUT…

you really gotta rethink your relationship with music. I started buying records when I was a teenager and built up a pretty decent, curated collection over the years, but it’s really only worth it if you buy the albums you truly love and want to revisit over and over again. If you treat it like an extension of Spotify, where everything is available instantly, you will be broke and disappointed.
The other thing that people don’t tell you about buying vinyl is that it takes a lot of time. Buying used records is the cheapest way to build your collection, but that means rummaging through a lot of junk. This is fun! But it is also time consuming.

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a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting

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