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Well, we have to laugh at ourselves sometimes......this one made me laugh and I really do have a pretty sweet record collection.

Ken Flaherty

"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/

Must be me except I collect Shellac! LOL
I have minimal friends and am early 40's.

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".

LOL! "I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me". Hey, I need that Beck song on a brown wax cylinder!

Victrolacollector wrote:Must be me except I collect Shellac! LOL
I have minimal friends and am early 40's.

You're just a loser with better taste is all.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

Maybe they are all losers just after your cylinders!!!

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.

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

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.

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.

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?