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> ha Only The Lonely. I had that on a playlist a few
> years back. That with The Beach Boys "God Only Knows"
> and The Crystals "And Then He Kissed Me", dabble on
> Sinatra "Strangers in the Night", and Elvis Costello
> "Shipbuilding" and tou have the start of a nice little hi
> fidelity playlist.

Your mentioning fidelity reminded me I recently busted out a portable turntable my wife got me a few years back. Just never had the time. But I bought a Stan Getz / Astrid Gilberto album at some antique shop a month or two ago (three bucks), and put that thing on while we were doing some landscaping out back, and oh how glorious! I miss

Funny. I grew up on grooves, then basked in the seeming audio perfection of digital... but that aura of the scratchy old album put the digital stuff to shame.

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~tffb wrote (thread):

I wanted so bad to like records and to like liking records - buying them, collecting them, listening to them - but I didn't grow up with them and never had anyone cheerleading their audio quality (or even value, tbh - I assume(d) cassettes were just as good/all the same), so transitioning to cassettes to CD to all digital was effortless for me. Still, I realize the audio quality is not important for me, as the quality of the recording or just being able to hear the music unencumbered (keeping decent headphones, a decent small headphone amp, and just proper bitrate audio files) is all I concern myself with. Scratchy Punk Rock and lo fi Black Metal can sound just like those - sounds good on tape and almost any format. Stuff recorded with impeccable equipment and attention to detail, keeping the Average Consumer's(TM) home equipment in mind (at one time mono, then stereo, but always analog (once upon a time)) should sound like that - high end and "immaculate" recordings (sonic-wise, anyway).

So circling back to my point - if I can hear the music and nothing is f***ing it up, I am happy. :)