Are there other teens who like to listen to music on vinyl records? + BQs about music!?

Question

Has anybody else got a record player?
BQs
How do you listen to most of your music? (on ipod, computer, record, tape, stereo, radio)
Do you buy your music in stores or on iTunes?
Have you ever downloaded music illegally?
Do you think it's wrong to download the music illegally?
Do you listen to online radio stations? What are the best ones in the UK?

Answer 1

If my house got on fire and I could only grab ten things one of them would be my autographed album of Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" that my uncle got back in the 1970s and gave to me for my birthday a few years ago because he is the absolute best uncle in existence. I love every song on the album so much I'd hug each of them if possible, and the sound quality on vinyl is so superior to the iTunes version. I'm actually listening to them on my computer now and missing the vinyl version. (I'm at another house) I had a spazout blissfest on Tuesday when "Glee" did an episode based on the album. I have my mom's old record player in my room, and I listen to that album as well as others by Fleetwood Mac and David Bowie, Queen, the Beatles, Nick Drake, Johnny Cash, Etta James, Maxine Sullivan, and Aerosmith's earliest work.



BQs

How do you listen to most of your music? (on ipod, computer, record, tape, stereo, radio)

~ I mainly listen to music on my iPhone or laptop. We have a sweet music system set up at my dad's house where you can plug your iphone in and have the music piped through the house, and I also just listen it while chilling in my room. I listen to music on my laptop while I'm working or online. I do still listen to the vinyl albums at least once a week, though. "Rumours" is my musical security blanket.



Do you buy your music in stores or on iTunes?

~ I buy most music from iTunes. I subscribe to Paste Magazine, and they have a sampler you can download every week. I've discovered a lot of my favorite new musicians there.



Have you ever downloaded music illegally?

~ Yes, when I was fourteen I downloaded music I couldn't find on iTunes from Frostwire. I haven't illegally downloaded anything since.



Do you think it's wrong to download the music illegally?

~ Yes, it's an act of theft. It harms the musicians you want to support, the musical industry as a whole, and the overall economy.



Do you listen to online radio stations? What are the best ones in the UK?

~ Yes!!!! I love internet radio. I used to listen to Pandora Radio all the time, but now I primarily listen to Last FM and my college's radio station. I have the BBC iPlayer app and sometimes listen to BBC4, and occasionally I'll listen to London-based stations like XFM and Capital Radio through iTunes.



Check out this station:

http://kzsu.stanford.edu/

They play my music sometimes!!!



You're welcome to check out my LastFM and Pandora stations if you wish:

http://www.last.fm/user/SkylarkMelody

http://www.pandora.com/people/soaringskylark



If you go the Radio tab on the left sidebar of your iTunes library you can choose from hundreds of stations around the world.



~ skylark : )



Edit:

Yes, I'd be happy for you to listen to my stations! Just click on the live stream tab to listen to Stanford Radio. The way Pandora Radio works is stations "grow" around a song or artist you select to be the seed, so on the left hand side of my profile page you'll see a long list of my stations. Each one has music similar to the artist or song I used as the seed when creating it. You can listen to each station individually, or scroll down to the very bottom and select "QuickMix" for a blend of all my music.



LastFm works somewhat similarly, but is even more personalized. I downloaded the software (it's free and easy to get, if you're interested) and it "scrobbles" my iTunes library. My station is built around the music in my library and songs similar to it. I have like 3000 songs of different genres, so it's more diverse. Fair warning - I've been listening to a lot of Pat Boone songs lately trying to decide on one to sing as a birthday present for my step-grandmother, so now there's music from the 50s cropping up, haha. You can listen to "SkylarkMelody Radio" by clicking on the tab about midway down on my profile page. It takes a while to buffer, but once it starts playing it's smooth.



: )

Answer 2

I wish I had a record player, I dont' even have CD's.



How do you listen to most of your music? (on ipod, computer, record, tape, stereo, radio)

ipod, computer



Do you buy your music in stores or on iTunes?

itunes sometimes.



Have you ever downloaded music illegally?

all the time



Do you think it's wrong to download the music illegally?

if I did than I wouldn't be doing it



Do you listen to online radio stations? What are the best ones in the UK?

No not really

Answer 3

Yes, I do! My parents have a bunch of old rock albums and I love the music. I have a record player but It's a newer one. My old school one broke. :3



BQs

1. I listen to most of my music on a stereo. Better sound.

2. I buy my music on iTunes, but I buy a lot of CDs mostly.

3. I never have.

4. I don't think so.

5. Not often, and I'm not sure! I'm not from the UK. Sorry!



Have a good day tomorrow =)

Answer 4

My father has an old recorder but only one vinyl - a Queen record. I don't listen to it much anymore as I overused it as a bored child.



How do you listen to most of your music? (on ipod, computer, record, tape, stereo, radio)

~ Mostly through my iPod and on my phone. I sometimes listen to it on the computer, but never on the radio. I take my phone everywhere with me so sometimes I'll listen to music while in the shower, lol.



Do you buy your music in stores or on iTunes?

~ Neither. I download it from YouTube.



Have you ever downloaded music illegally?

~ If downloading from YouTube is illegal, then yes.



Do you think it's wrong to download the music illegally?

~ I don't really see anything wrong with it. The musicians are going to be paid anyway, so the whole pirating thing is up because they want to make even more money by people buying their CDs or their songs from iTunes.



Do you listen to online radio stations? What are the best ones in the UK?

~ I don't. At some point I listened to a radio station in Madrid, but not anymore.

Answer 5

1. sound quality matters a lot to me, but you are flat out wrong about mp3s. at 320 kbps the human ear quite frankly cannot tell the difference. that is what every study i have read says. and personally i have great hearing, and have done experiments on this subject on found that i couldn't tell the difference at that encoding level. after a lot of experimenting, i seem to recall the first level where i could tell the difference was 128 kbps, and the only difference i was able to pick up was slightly more background buzz when the track was silent on the higher quality encoding. that being said, speakers and headphones make a huge difference, and i have studio quality for each. to go back to the mona lisa analogy, maybe 30% of the paint is on the surface, the rest has been layered over. supposing you where given a version of the mona lisa that didnt have that extra paint that you cant see anyway- would it be insulting to look at it? 2. i disagree with the sentiment that new vinyl is a gimmick. this "gimmick" has been pioneered by independent studios like dap tone records who record everything in analog. i wouldn't dismiss anything unless you have personally researched each specific record and know for a fact that it was recorded digitally.

Answer 6

No



Mp3 player

No stores close and itunes is gay

Who hasnt? Of course i have

No. If it was much of an issue like people claim: youtube would be shut down, just like EVERY music download website

Answer 7

NO

phone,laptop

on a app on my samsung galaxy s

idk

yeah when im in the car-kiss 101-south wales capital fm

Answer 8

I DO! it's so fun to play with the speeds and scratch records even though i shouldn't.

-internet gives me everything.

-YES.

-NO.

-no, they're kinda pointless. that's like reading magazines through the tv. i don't combine mediums of media.

Answer 9

YES