You know... I'm just going to add a "Vinyl" tag / category to this blog. I don't know if more and more information is coming out about vinyl, or if it's just that I'm paying more attention. I do know that I'm seeing much more vinyl being sold at shows now...
Here's a little tip for your not-so-new vinyl... like the stuff you're Mom just gave you, from when she was so excited to hear that you're playing vinyl and wanted to resurrect her collection. Just sayin'.
Use Wood Glue to Clean and Restore Old LPs
Cleaning LPs with a bottle of wood glue is hardly an intuitive way to get more mileage out of that bottle of glue in your workshop or clean a beloved LP. The results, however, are quite impressive.
Over at the music and audio-gear enthusiast site Audio Karma, one industrious user decided to test the old rumors in the audiophile community that you could clean a record with wood glue. The photo above shows a before and after shot of a record he cleaned using the technique. Why would you want to use this method? The before photo shows the results of using a commercial cleaner at home—not very impressive—and getting LPs professionally cleaned can cost $2-3 and up per album.
[From Use Wood Glue to Clean and Restore Old LPs - Music - Lifehacker]
Enjoy the music. :-)
Not to turn this into a discussion of vinyl vs. other things, but something that I feel, especially lately is that CDs are pretty much dead. Why buy a CD when it is going straight onto your computer anyways? Why not just download it. Whereas with vinyl, you get a different sound, bigger/better artwork. As a musician I would rather put out something that is harder to download from mediafire/torrents (Vinyl) than a CD.
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