Is it just me or has playing music got a lot less epic with the latest developments in music formats. Now, if you want to show a friend some sweet song, you open your iTunes library (or whatever software you use) and double click the song and it plays. Or if your friend is elsewhere, you email it to them or link them to YouTube. Either way it is even lamer when you have a slow computer or media player. You tell your bud all about this wicked song, queue it up and then wait this long awkward pause until it finally plays. Probably the coolest modern way to share music is passing your friend one earbud and playing it on your iPod, and I'm still unimpressed.
Rewind a few decades back to cassette tapes. Imagine popping in a cassette and all the clicks you hear as you close the tape deck. Wait for the cue tone (that slowly increasing pitch) and then your song plays. Pretty rad, but let's go back further to the LP. You pull out your new record sleeve (likely from a milk crate), slide out the vinyl and twirl it in between your fingers. Then you place it onto the turntable and listen to the beautiful crackling static as you drop the needle. With this epic a listening experience and the lack of one with the current medium, it's no wonder records have been coming back in style. Which sounds better to you? "Left click twice in rapid succession," or "drop the needle."
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