Host Intro: Current Baruch student Maya Alexander discusses with us about her collection of music records and gives us some background on this hobby that has had a resurgence.
Track: Maya begins telling us what records she most enjoys in her collection.
Act: Maya: Well, some of my favorite records are defiantly some of the classic rock records that I have. I’m a huge Beatles fan, so all my Beatle records are my favorites. My most favorite record that I own is a Prince album, it’s his debut album, his self-titled album. It sounds great on the turn table really loud, just the bass, the percussion and the guitars, everything is just really great on that album.
Track: Maya discussed the biggest factor in determining what records she chooses to buy.
Act: Maya: The main factor is how much it cost, honestly. I get a lot of my records from a site called Discogs, it’s like this big record wholesaler where a lot of live records stores come online and sell their stuff and that’s where I’ve got most of my really good deals. The record industry and vinyl records have had a resurgence in the last couple of years. When people are wanting to get back into that retro 70s, 80s and 90s sort of vibe. And so, records are something like visually representative of an era that’s no longer.
Track: Maya than discussed the differences between listening to music played on our everyday phones and listening to a physical record.
Act: Maya: There’s sometimes not a difference. It’s almost sometimes that the audio quality on a record would be worse than the audio quality just, say listening on your iPhone. I think the main difference is just the vibe, just the aesthetic. Like even on records that are usually used records they’ll have things like crackling noises and sometimes their warped in different places. I think that adds to the overall aesthetic. The audio quality itself is usually is not as good as digital. Sometimes it is, sometimes on digital, its way more compressed and the bass is terrible.
Host Outro: Maya’s enjoyment of music will constantly grow with her every record she adds to her collection. From Baruch College, I’m Francisco Zenteno.