Originally Posted by
Joe
Obviously.
There's the mystical ritual involved in removing a record from its sleeve, handling it by the edges to avoid fingerprints, placing it on the platter, checking the VTA, then slowly lowering the stylus into the groove, sitting back in your reclining chair, tapping your foot as the music starts, reading through the sleeve-notes and admiring the Roger Dean artwork on the cover, listening out for the bit where the drummer hums along, then wondering if maybe a change of speaker cable would help reveal whether his humming is in fact out of tune, then mentally composing a forum post asking for advice about this. As a piece of performance art, there's more creativity in there than in all the Turner prizewinners put together.