These kids were buying albums by Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Kinks, AC-DC , Muddy Waters which IHO is far from poop music. Not sure what you are saying about the Black Keys whose first 4 albums were really solid.
Im not saying that people who listen to music digitally do not listen to the entire album nor did I imply that. I also listen to music digitally as well. It was refreshing to see that these kids were album based listeners and not top 40 or pop junkies who listen to one song from an artist and move onto the next song/artist.
Conceptual. I said conceptual. I didn't care much in my response what is poop and what is not. And it goes for the most you named; there is absolutely no reason why you should hear the third song of Kinks after the second. The order is not what artist intended, especially not for Cash or AC-DC. And that is also what I meant for Black Keys. Yes it's a good band, but playing one side from the start to the end makes no sense with many of these bands.
That was one of the things you put forth as positive and one of those I don't agree with. There is nothing of the artist intention in order of the songs of mentioned artists and this is even more true for vinyl where, once again, it was the medium restrictions that often comanded the order and not artist's intention.
I'm not against TT, you do remember I have one and put so much effort into it just to make it play OK that people here started teasing me I was a vinylhead.
But the reason those kids named is good only if there's such a thing as artist's intention to speak of. That's why I said Pink Floyd (I like them, but I'm not a die-hard pinky). And the rest I mentioned, I only mentioned for that reason - having a concept that leads the album; Tangerine Dream, ELP, Enigma - regardless of poop or not.
And again, if it's the medium format the thing that is making you listen through, I don't care much for it.
I see people who like vinyl constantly looking for a new argument to defend the medium, but I wouldn't say this is one.
Cover art? Sure... But it's like saying that miniaturists are poop. Check this:
This is an actual needle! So CD covers can be good as well.
I give vinyl advantages of:
- romanticism
- ritual
- ambient
- steampunk sillines
- nostalgia (soon to become a part of CDs as well)
- few titles that are not digitalized (these are very few in fact and this argument should be used scarcely)
