All from Hythe Demelza chazzer on Wednesday - a quid each.

The CDs are -



the LPs are -





They are the best place in that part of kent for great vinyl finds.

Another productive day in which I completed three visits, two in Medway and one in Ashford. After the last one in Chatham, I popped into Gillighma and then Rainham on my return home. It was in Rainham where I found sox more slabs of vinyl going for free from the cardboard box on the table outside of the record shop in Station Road.

Another mixed bag of the sixties and seventies easy listening, jazzy exotica, and vocal groups. Batchelor pad music perhaps.





Yes, some cool sounds and some not so cool .. perhaps. 

Well, all that storm passed over in the night as today was quite a good mild day. Do in the ned I di manage to do four visits in the Medway area. I did not leave home till midday and arrived back after eight. I had a meal at my local pub this evening before going home.


I had the very tasty fish and chips which became reduced to just four pounds plus a drink.



Whilst in Medway, well Rainham actually, I picked up three LPs for free and three Cds for a quid.

More details of these and other discoveries tomorrow.

However, it was cool getting this LP for free.




Bit of a one-off she was.

I walked into town and back whilst it remained a dry cool day. I sold some books at Past Sentence for six quid. Bought a few items off the market. Had a beer and a cornish pastie at my local pub and then walked back. I then had a bit of a siesta before making my dinner.

I watched a couple of nights ago the first episode of the fourth season of Star Trek Discovery and the first episode of the 8th season of The Flash.

I also watched Tilda Swinton's portrayal again of Orlando based on the Virginia Woolf novel. I also have read the book. This was on Britbox.

Xmas is just over a month away and I doubt I will reach the hundredth read by the end of the year. Alas, other things have into conflict with the reading and that is partly due to listening to vinyl again. However, the last few weeks I have been reading much more as I am beginning to run out of LP racking space unless I move some CD boxes elsewhere. I seldom read and listen to music at the same time. esp. if lyrics are involved.



I will need more CD racking as well. Oh well, c'est la vie!

This morning I was mainly doing some mystery phone calls and then it turned sunny - so I went out to pop into town for a while. I took some old paperbacks to sell at Past Sentence, looked around the market, popped into my local [ub and then the charity shop next door, and found more cheap goodies -

Vinyl LPs first -






..and these two CDs -




All good finds once again.

For my lunch, after I returned from town, I just banged in the microwave some leftovers from the food fest yesterday.



Added some garlic as well. Very filling. The Thai chicken sticks were delicious.

I decided not to do any work today. I just popped into town. I had a few beers and bought some vinyl totaling three quid.

These are the LPs found -





And a couple of CDs for fifty pence!



All from the chazzer next door to the pub.

Another productive day. Four visits were completed, two in Canterbury and one each in Ramsgate and Deal. However, tomorrow will be an easy relaxing day and then back to the grind on Saturday. Two of the visits were charity shops and hence I have more goodies to listen to. Three vinyl LPs from easy listening to jazz and jazz-funk.





So, expect more music posts soon.

Another mixed bag of a day. Some sunshine but generally cloudy - but no rain this time. A wee bit colder as well.

I popped into town to see Kate at Past Sentence. Sold a few paperbacks for four quid and then looked around the market. There was a record dealer on the market and I picked up two vinyl albums for a quid each.




The Dory Previn album from 1971 I have had before, so it was great finding a copy again.




This is a fine compilation that was issued in 1986. A lovely collection of old jazz music.

I then had a saitsidying pint of Dead Parrot in my local before walking home

Okay, so it's a bit of a pun on Europe's rock stadium tune "Final Countdown". Yeah, but new vinyl is scarce too.


First petrol, then pasta … now record labels are running out of vinyl

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/03/first-petrol-then-pasta-now-record-labels-are-running-out-of-vinyl



Producer and DJ Chris Howell, also known as Luna-C, in his studio.

Hence, the reason I buy old vinyl. Cheaper and easier to get.

I keep hearing talk that CD is dead. Streaming is the way forward blah blah blah.

Well, dear reader, whilst streaming may be convenient if you have internet access and so on, but firstly it is still not as good in sound quality as CD and it is not lossless. What I mean by lossless is that there are no gaps. So, for example, you have a continuous piece of music that has been indeed into two or more parts there will be a second or two gap in that music at each index. This was the failure of my last CD system before I had the Denon.
Also, you do not own it as it is the property of the streaming service and you do not have a physical copy you can play anywhere. This is another reason why vinyl is so cool again because of its physicality and downright aesthetic pleasure.

However, there is something disturbing that might flip the sales of vinyl downwards again. The lack of pressing plants. There were more in the seventies than now. In fact, less than 100 worldwide. Plants are struggling to keep up with the demand. Read this from The New Statesman -

Increased demand, plus the rising prices of raw materials, have led to huge delays at record pressing plants. When will the vinyl bubble burst?

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music/2021/09/its-unmanageable-how-the-vinyl-industry-reached-breaking-point

Prices are another factor. Most new pressings are around the thirty-quid mark. As prices rise, people will be less likely to pay for more indie, risky music, and stranger stuff, which will always be cheaper on CD. When I look for vinyl now, it is always older original pressings in near mint condition or very good plus at least and no more than a tenner usually.

It has been suggested that to return to “normal” lead times at the current demand, at least 300 extra presses would be required globally. But the manufacture of vinyl is a complicated operation that requires specialist workers; the process of setting up enough new presses will not be a quick one. Progress is being made in the UK, albeit slowly: a new facility, Press on Vinyl, is due to open in Teesside, reportedly creating 30 new jobs by the end of the year.

Oh, and another thing, the impact to the environment is worse with vinyl - "New Statesman data shows that the manufacture of a vinyl record has twice the environmental impact of a CD, both in terms of plastics used and greenhouse gases emitted. Lorde’s decision to refuse CDs on environmental grounds but embrace vinyl may indicate that vinyl is simply too much in demand, and too profitable, to avoid – no matter the cost to the natural world." I wonder how that will be solved or not?


So, as one YouTube vlogger suggested - Is CD back for a Revival?

As far as classical music is concerned, it has never gone away!

Makes you think huh?