Hopstretch

Happy Birthday!

Tubeway Army -- Replicas

Or try a Grado. Happy to send you a Gold that's sitting around doing nothing, if you like. If you're committed to low-mass, you could haunt A'gon for a Shure V15 Type VxMR.

Looks like that tab is now in considerable dispute. The restaurant owner says it was Roman Abramovich and some buds. His people call bullshit. Presumably the owner will now get carved up in a steam room after a naked, slow motion, floppy-cock knife fight.

Gary Numan -- The Pleasure Principle

I have one of those. It appears to work well.

Only the hoi polloi, Duggeh. The quality can afford front loaders and get to pat themselves on the back for using less water and being vaguely Euro.

Cut your hair and get married already, dammit. Speaking of power pop, did you get the Best of Matthew Sweet that I had up? The Smiths -- Meat Is Murder Rhino reissue vinyl.

I guess she appreciated your F-mount. Giggity!

You're a cold fish, Reks. Sorry, Baggers.

I miss my GS-1.

It's pretty close, but just sounds a little more "natural" straight from the record. Who knows why -- his system setup, my system setup, his A/D, my D/A? Lot of points in the chain. I guess the next step would be to make my own drop of it and then compare the digital files. I'm probably more lazy than I am geeky, though. Real nice to listen to either way!

Nice to see those Goldman bonuses are already trickling down to street level! Quality aside, that's also some fairly yeoman drinking for a table of six.

Yes, as is this. Talking Heads -- 77 Sitting here geeking out by going back and forth between the actual vinyl on my turntable, and a hi-res needledrop of the same pressing made on somebody else's rig. It's quite interesting.

Chris Bell -- I Am The Cosmos Awesome!

Whoa! I just bought two big bags of vinyl.

Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins -- "Rise Up With Fists"

Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins -- Rabbit Fur Coat Vinyl. Well worth it. Much better sound than the CD.

Thanks all. I'll start with the Audacity tutorials and go from there.

I've picked up a Duet (again) and would like to start playing around with ripping vinyl. Could one of you chaps who've already been down this road please point me in the direction of some decent software for the Mac to facilitate the process? Workflow tips also welcome! Thanks very much.

Morrissey -- Swords Vinyl.

Pine floors?

This makes me turgid. Matte black and shiny chrome FTMFW!

I do like their style.

Looks like you Five Finger freaks are about to go mainstream! The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : The money has finally made Sergey nuts