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That retro David Sedaris…
The humorist David Sedaris has a new audiobook, “Live for Your Listening Pleasure”, coming out in January. It will be available on CD and on LP. That’s right, the ever hip Sedaris is releasing it on a 12 inch vinyl long playing record album. That is so cool!
I have never given up on vinyl and LP’s are actually on the upswing. CD sales are in a virtual nosedive while vinyl sales are slowing rising. Still miniscule, but growing.
The vinyl release of the Sedaris audiobook has a delightfully retro cover. Don’t you agree? That takes me back to the heyday of LP’s-the 1960’s and early 1970’s were a time when some fabulous music was being released and album covers were providing an alluring canvas for some incredible artwork.
I’m hoping that David Sedaris is on to something here…
Vick Mickunas
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By edo
December 16, 2009 10:14 AM | Link to this
lmj.. re: Freberg check out: http://www.amazon.com/Stan-Freberg/e/B000APVJNM/ref=s9dptsa_link… but you’ll learn that you are never “done with” these albums… “EEYAHHH!… don’t let me startle you,just a little rebel yell to kind of kick things off, know what I mean?”
By lmj
December 15, 2009 2:11 PM | Link to this
Vick and/or edo, when you’re done with your Stan Freberg albums will you will them to me? I have Cosby and Smothers Brothers and Newhart and Tom Lehrer, but no Freberg. Isn’t it about time to listen to “Green Christmas?”
By Page Turner
December 15, 2009 2:05 PM | Link to this
In the mid-80s, bargain bins of new, sealed LPs at drug stores and department stores yielded many gems @ $2.99, and as the demand for records continued to plummet, $1.99, 99 cents, and 2 for a dollar. Then they were gone. In the 90s the process repeated itself with audio cassettes. Soon come for CDs? I have a room filled with these artifacts. There is the temptation to digitize it all, put the sounds on a hard drive as some friends have done, and reclaim the space. It’s a daunting prospect: the process could take years. And indeed there is some pleasure in the artifacts themselves, to hold, look at the pictures and read the liner notes. That David Sedaris and his media company put this effort out on vinyl probably has little to do with any profit from actual LP sales and much more to do with the marketing cachet of retro and having a big, sexy album cover.
By vick
December 15, 2009 12:08 PM | Link to this
Stan Freberg, what a genius! I treasure my old Freberg LP’s too. A couple of years ago I was at a book conference in Los Angeles. A distinguished looking elderly gentleman walked by me. He looked familiar. I read his nametag. It was Stan Freberg! I almost fainted from the shock. I was speechless before my idol. He’s in his mid eighties now. Still chuggin’ along…
By edo
December 15, 2009 11:56 AM | Link to this
David Sedaris is a very funny writer, but is hilarious when reading his mateial. I still have many “records”, besides music, the comedy albums of Stan Freberg, Bill Cosby, Bob Newhart and Jonathan Winters are among my treasures.
By vick
December 14, 2009 1:53 PM | Link to this
Since about 1985 there have been lots of people doing what you did, Irish, dumping their vinyl holdings. And I’m the guy who has been scouring garage sales, thrift stores, auctions, junkpiles, and whatever, picking up all those lovely, unloved records. I’m grateful so many people have dumped theirs. I have amassed quite a library, 45’s, 78’s, and good old 33 and 1/3 rpms. Love’em!
By irishguy
December 14, 2009 1:04 PM | Link to this
I still have a turntable somewhere, but I sold all my vinyl (save a couple with some value) 2 or 3 years ago.