Well, we have to laugh at ourselves sometimes......this one made me laugh and I really do have a pretty sweet record collection.
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"New study finds link between collecting vinyl and being a middle-aged loner"
"Are you a loser with no friends? Chances are you’ve got a pretty sweet record collection"
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/08/n ... ged-loner/
Are you a loser with no friends?
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Re: Are you a loser with no friends?
Must be me except I collect Shellac! LOL
I have minimal friends and am early 40's.
I have minimal friends and am early 40's.
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Re: Are you a loser with no friends?
I just may be! Here's another way to check. If you've got a smart phone, ask Siri, "What's zero divided by zero".
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Re: Are you a loser with no friends?
LOL! "I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me". Hey, I need that Beck song on a brown wax cylinder! 

"He who dies with the most shellac wins"- some nutty record geek
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Re: Are you a loser with no friends?
You're just a loser with better taste is all.Victrolacollector wrote:Must be me except I collect Shellac! LOL
I have minimal friends and am early 40's.

It bugs the crap out of me to hear all records referred to as 'vinyl'... like the god of Arrogant Incompetence, eBay, who has a category simply called 'Vinyl Records'. That's as bad as calling Royal Blue Shellac 'blue wax'. Wait... I've done that, LOL.
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Re: Are you a loser with no friends?
I find that looking for and wanting things that most people who either don't want or don't try to understand what it is that I'm talking about tend to keep a distance from me but I have 8 grandchildren and a modest record collection so I must be in a different category. 

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"New study finds link between collecting vinyl and being a middle-aged loner"
I wonder what the trends are for middle-aged cylinder collectors? I may have beat the odds - I am married, have friends AND have a big cylinder collection.
I wonder what the trends are for middle-aged cylinder collectors? I may have beat the odds - I am married, have friends AND have a big cylinder collection.
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Re: Are you a loser with no friends?
Maybe they are all losers just after your cylinders!!!VintageTechnologies wrote:"New study finds link between collecting vinyl and being a middle-aged loner"
I wonder what the trends are for middle-aged cylinder collectors? I may have beat the odds - I am married, have friends AND have a big cylinder collection.

I probably fit the profile pretty well. If I had my druthers I could almost be Ted Kaczynski only substitute phonographs, records, books cigars, and booze for the letter bombs. Good thing my wife keeps me bathed, shaved, and civilized.
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Re: Are you a loser with no friends?
with all this talk about cylinders and records I need to go to my phonograph room and play a few. I need to find my john Philips suzias to cheer me up Tom B
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Re: Are you a loser with no friends?
They made a movie back around 2000 on this subject, which I mentioned in a previous post. Forgot the name of it though. Oh yeah, Ghost World.
Most people, who are not in our hobby, barely remember records, and certainly don't remember 78s. So, to most people all records are vinyl. This was question on Who Wants to be a Millionaire once. The question was "What were records made of before vinyl?" Of course the contestant had no clue. We will just have to get used to non record collectors referring to our 78s are being vinyl. And what about Blue Amberols and Diamond Discs?It bugs the crap out of me to hear all records referred to as 'vinyl'... like the god of Arrogant Incompetence, eBay, who has a category simply called 'Vinyl Records'. That's as bad as calling Royal Blue Shellac 'blue wax'. Wait... I've done that, LOL.