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Socko, the new Wrath of Khan Blu-ray transfer is top notch, just so you know.

Baleeted

Maru has talent, he's not just a face.

Flight crews.

Huh, I just assumed Kylie's success was global. It's weird how parochial american pop charts seem to be.

The crooner revival was happening in the early '90s with actual crooners like Tony Bennett getting Grammies.

It's always weird to me that British acts are seen as "foreign" in the US.

For someone who has lived in Australia and South Africa, it's almost inconceivable to  me that anyone as incomprehensibly, monstrously huge as Williams was everywhere for over a decade was a one hit wonder in the USA.

Agreed, the pilot is a bit trying.

I'm always kind of amazed that anyone ever used to use Barry White unironically.

Download Audacity. Run a cable from your radio to your PC's mic jack. Press "record". That's all you have to do.

Just use FLAC.

Some early CDs suffered from delamination and what they called "bit rot" or "laser rot", but by and large they're a very stable format. Rare CDs command much heftier sums than rare records.

I'd forgotten that my walkman only had fast forward.

Brickwalled CDs sound brittle. CDs pre-'94 or so sound fantastic. I grew up with vinyal and cassettes, and when CDs arrived they were utterly revelatory.

It definitely doesn't sound more accurate (vinyl is very limited in comparison to CD), but it has pleasing tonal biases and distortion because of its particular physical limits. It's also incapable of being brickwalled (dynamically compressed) the way moden digital recordings are and so it often sounds more lively as

My father's employers had a stereo VHS player, and we recorded the first 45mins of Terminator two onto a music cassette from it. The recording played back slightly too fast, so you had to tap the pause button every now and then to re-sync the audio and video.