Which would you keep?

[Dominic Harper]

I have nevered told you anything about that, you little rudey lol, but your right about one thing if you have got special edition vinyl that you just cannot buy anymore, it would be pretty difficult to choose between vinyl and your hifi. Dom keeps all his vinyl in sealed containers in the garage, so that tells me some of his unreplaceable vinyl is just that unreplaceable. Although, I think he would be very upset if he had to give up any of his turntables.

Natalie

[AAshton]

I'd dump them both - they are just "things'" after all.

Andrew

[Marco]

For me, my favourite music is much more than just simply a 'thing'... It's a big part of what makes me who I am.

Marco.

[bobbasrah]

Once the last of my vinyl is transcribed to digital, I would be happy to ditch my entire LP and CD collection, forever chased into purgatory by suits claiming breaching breach of copyright due to no longer having the originals.... I can always update the audio to a post-war less non-revealing system later...
I have no paranoia with computers nor sentimental attachments to the medium, only the music, so can this way have my cake and eat it, so to speak.....

[The Grand Wazoo]

... It's a big part of what makes me who I am.

Absotively & posolutely.

The gear is just the key that opens the door. What's on the other side of the door is magical.

[Marco]

Hi Bob,

I have no paranoia with computers nor sentimental attachments to the medium...

What about the tactility of the physical media itself?

Music aside, for me one of the attractions of vinyl is handling the (often) beautiful gatefold sleeves, enjoying the artwork and reading interesting information pertinent to the music and artist(s) one is listening to.

I love lying back on the sofa, sipping a nice glass of wine, doing just that, whilst listening to my favourite records. Not having access to the physical media in that way would, for me, greatly devalue the whole music listening experience.

Marco.

[Jac Hawk]

in my view the older you get, the harder it is to replace a particular LP CD or tape, especially if it was never main stream to begin with, where as you can always get a new stereo

Think that sums it up

[philsparks]

definitely the vinyl - the stuff I bought in the 70s & 80s has such strong memories. I have mental pictures of the records lying all over the floor in my uni-digs, or of heading off to the old Sound Org (Cathedral St) with a sainsburys bag containing FGTH Pleasuredome etc.

I don't really have anything like the same attachment to the CDs.

Phil

[Pete The Cat]

Another vote for the music. It's like a diary, particularly the records that I bought in the 70s and 80s. I can remember where I bought them, the bus journeys or long walks to get to the shops, the weekends away in other towns when I found them, the friends I was with, the weather, the hopes and fears of the time, everything really...

I even have some of the bags (farewell Adrians and Selectadisc) and the price stickers are on some of the sleeves. £2.99 for Queen II in Woollies, was it all a dream ?

Pete

[Jac Hawk]

Considering it's cost me so much money & Grief to get the equipment i have to mint condition. dump the music for me...

I've been there mate when the ex dumped all my LP's and stereo, now i've got hi fi gear all over the house, but the LP's that were skipped have been more difficult to get either because they aren't available, the second hand copy you buy is so worn to a point of being unplayable or ridiculously expensive.

Trust me you can ALWAYS get a new hi fi