Vinyl

 

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here…

 

     My niece asked me if I wanted vinyl copies of Pink Floyd albums. She’s currently in Poland and has stumbled into a record bar that sells glossy vinyl records. A lot of people are saying that vinyl sounds better than CD. I don’t know about that, what I know is with repeated plays, vinyl records develop this annoying hissing sound. CDs don’t do that, and it’s so easy to choose a song on a CD. But when I was younger and CDs were still just a figment of imagination of some engineers, I remember getting sort of high and happy whenever I enter a record bar and see these vinyl records with their vivid covers. And a vinyl in its cover is a lot nicer to hold in your hands than a box of CD.

     There are two hitches with this plan of buying Pink Floyd vinyl: one, it’s expensive. The vinyl in the photo above costs around PhP2k in Poland; in Lazada, it will cost you 2.4K. And we don’t have a turntable, so we need to buy one also, so the plan was temporarily scrapped, and we’re back to going to YouTube to listen to music, including Pink Floyd music. Lol.

     And is Wish You Were Here album any good? Let’s just say that it’ll give you a hypnotic, mesmerizing ride to aural heaven, whether it's on CD or vinyl.