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Record Store Day, R.E.M., Vinyl vs. CD

Record Store Day is just around the corner and R.E.M. once again have a special release for the occasion.
  They are releasing a vinyl set of both MTV Unplugged appearances from 1991 and 2001.  According to their website, this music has not been released before.  However, I somehow have BOTH of the shows sitting in my CD collection at home.  The 1991 show came to from a local record store that also sold "import" CD's.  While the 2001 show came to me via the internet from some source that had access to the audio from the show.  However, this is the first "official" release.  While I don't think I will be going to Schoolkids, my favorite local record store, to pick up the vinyl, I may go the following day to pick up the CD version.  Which brings me to my next point.  I love to listen to music, but I don't buy vinyl.  I don't own a record player and I don't have room to keep a collection of vinyl.  I think the last, and only, vinyl that I bought (my parents bought it for me) is Michael Jackson's Thriller.  When I started to find my own musical preference cassette tape's were extremely popular.  I used to love to get R.E.M. tapes and see how they would label the sides.  Instead of 1 and 2, or A and B, they were a little more clever.  A Side and Another Side, Dinner Side and Supper Side, Left and Right.  I don't think I will ever buy a vinyl album.  Inevitably, I would wear the tapes out and have to buy a new tape.  Eventually I migrated to CD's and that is when I really began to miss the side names.


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