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When I first discovered just how good vinyl playback was compared to digital, I became addicted to going out and buying records. Most that I bought cost me on average 50cents each. I quickly learned to check each carefully, so most I've bought are in premium condition. Over the course of two years, I must have bought at least 2000 LPs. - I've not counted them, but that number would be conservative.

It never ceases to amaze me how good vinyl records can sound. Western Classical music is very important to me, but I love many forms of music.

I listened to Glenn Gould playing Bach Goldberg Variations the other day. The music at first seems stark, simple, unadorned I guess because of the lack of accompanyment (by other instruments). It stikes me as a pure mathematical excercise in logical progressions, and Gould is masterful. I feel that he is intimate with every molecule of the music. My impression is one of slight dryness, without any of the added flair some other pianists might be unable to avoid adding. In a sense he is the perfect conduit and the notes and progressions themselves as skillfully executed by Gould need no further beautifying. Listening to the complex variations evolve, I find myself lulled (mesmerized?) into a sort of peaceful state and contantly hooked into the music.  

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