Journalist SLAMS Vinyl Collectors. Calls them ''Neurotic Snobs'

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  • @TheVinylGuru
    @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому +12

    Do you think this type of journalism is worth having on major publications like Independet? Slamming people especially us fun, vinyl collectors? Don't hate the hobby, find a hobby yourself!

  • @MetalSamantha
    @MetalSamantha 2 роки тому +3

    "Anything I don't understand is bad. I am very clever" - Her

  • @garytibbs4196
    @garytibbs4196 2 роки тому +2

    Perhaps in this case we could invoke the adage: Those who can, Do. Those who can't blog.

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому +1

      LOVE!!! hahaha Gary you are the best

  • @Harrispilton22
    @Harrispilton22 2 роки тому +6

    I have to say I feel that’s a fairly accurate description, although I have been called worse. If I was in the crowd when Moses was reading out the 10 Commandments from the stone tablet I'd be the one yelling 'I've got this on vinyl!!!'

  • @poetryonplastic
    @poetryonplastic 2 роки тому +4

    Over the past 5 years, I’ve become more or less astounding by the petty “thinkpieces” formerly reputable publications have seen fit to print. You hit the nail on the head, people are passive aggressively venting their interpersonal issues to the whole world and acting like it qualifies as real journalism. It truly is a low point for the profession.

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому +1

      I know what you mean. Journalism is really losing its touch and not nearly as professional as it once was.

  • @JWS64
    @JWS64 2 роки тому

    You absolutely KILLED IT, with your take. Well said, Well done, so easily analyzed. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому

      Airing out martial problems is so tacky, right?

  • @davidellis5141
    @davidellis5141 2 роки тому +2

    As Elvis Costello sang , 🎶 I used to be disgusted , but now I try & be amused 🎶

  • @kimba8387
    @kimba8387 2 роки тому +3

    Maybe her husband thinks she lacks sensory charm.

  • @IAMHOPFROG
    @IAMHOPFROG 2 роки тому +6

    I have been married almost 37 years. My wife was happy when I started buying vinyl. She enjoys seeing me happy. When out looking for records, I make an effort to bring home something she likes. Flowers, a ceramic bunny, etc. It says I love you and am thinking of you. This lady and husband need to learn how to get along.

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому +2

      THATS the difference between your wife and this woman. She doesnt want to see her man happy. WHY?
      Thats his thing. Be happy for him. Have your own hobbies too.

  • @wrbball25
    @wrbball25 2 роки тому +3

    as a reporter myself, i honestly don’t consider silly opinion pieces like this “journalism” in the same way you would a straight news article. i just look at it as an…odd (to say the least) opinion piece. completely agree with you regarding the article’s content though - sounds like someone being negative just for the sake of being negative…

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому +1

      Yes, this type of stuff brings shame to actual journalists. Its a total opinion pice. I dont get how The Independent has this run. Must have been a slow week.

  • @SonicSafari
    @SonicSafari 2 роки тому +1

    I agree with you; there is enough dark things in the world right now, so to write something that has nothing about inspire or do good to it, talks more about the journalist than anything else.

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому

      Yes too negative for me. Lighten up lady!

  • @orgnl
    @orgnl 2 роки тому +4

    Dude needs to drop her faster than he drops the needle on his records. 😅

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому +3

      hahahahahaha! You feel me. She doesnt love him. This is BEYOND just the records. This is lowkey a relationship problem that she is airing out. She needs therapy.

  • @ViniloEnfermos
    @ViniloEnfermos 2 роки тому +2

    Yeah apparently the best way to be heard these days is to use big words and disrespect somebody or much worse a whole collective.
    So many politicians, journalists and trolls on social media playing this game it's just getting exhausting.

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому +1

      Right? Terrible, honey. It's really is exhausting. Everything is a war now? LOL I just laugh.

  • @ShamrocknRecords
    @ShamrocknRecords 2 роки тому +2

    I put my turntable next to my bed to see how much I can make it skip! Hahaha
    Cheers☘️

  • @Amadeusthegreat100
    @Amadeusthegreat100 2 роки тому +1

    I'm of the original vinyl collectors from back in the day. Although when cassettes became a more popular format I used to, even then brag that I had the vinyl. They'd say you can't play that in the car. I'd say I have a tape deck. I'll tape it. It'll sound much better on my home made tape than your prerecorded tape.
    Yeah, I guess I was as snobby in the 80s as the new batch are now.

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому +1

      I grew up on cassettes and still collect them and then found my love for LPs later. You like what you like. Dont apologize.

  • @tinostabile3256
    @tinostabile3256 2 роки тому

    Hi there Tina. Unbelievable. How can someone criticize a passion and pastime. Life is difficult enough. Everyone has a passion or a pastime. Some collect lunch boxes on eBay. Who am I to judge what one spends their hard earned money. Let us not judge... let us enjoy what the world has for us to enjoy and let our souls be fulfilled.

  • @panagiotisargyropoulos2217
    @panagiotisargyropoulos2217 2 роки тому

    I feel sorry for her. I feel happy for you making this video. BTW people like this one make me buy more records. More of her please.

  • @wasagageorge2610
    @wasagageorge2610 2 роки тому

    I agree with you Christina!! Cheap journalism, trying to catch the vinyl uprising and get more clicks!☮

  • @kngkrmson2179
    @kngkrmson2179 2 роки тому +1

    Love the background in this video! Is that your living room?

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому +2

      I love your taste, darling.

    • @kngkrmson2179
      @kngkrmson2179 2 роки тому

      @@TheVinylGuru Well thank you, beautiful woman. 😉

  • @jerryking7502
    @jerryking7502 2 роки тому

    "I should know. A third of my dining room is dedicated to my husband's precious LP collection..." Hey, I don't think any more needs to be said. I think some marriage counselling is in order...

  • @Mountprospect1
    @Mountprospect1 2 роки тому

    haha... nice vid!! Yep.... i think this article can be distilled down to "I'm a little needy right now because my husband has a hobby he really enjoys that doesn't involve me." Yeah... pretty lazy, low level, click bait .... erm... 'journalism'. But thats the way of modern media.... Just glorified Facebook posts. Its all about the click and nothing else. But hey.... thats why music (on any format)is so vital. Life affirming stuff

  • @slumdogjay
    @slumdogjay 2 роки тому +4

    So preferring the fuller sound of vinyl and appreciating the art of an LP is wrong? I think she is the snob. I love my vinyl. Edit - Just got to the part about her husband. Sounds like she’s just down on him. Poor chap. I would run for the hills. Lol.

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому +1

      Right? POOR GUY. It's all about him. She doesnt care about the rekkids, lets be real. Its because they are attached to him. She cant stand him. I feel bad.

    • @slumdogjay
      @slumdogjay 2 роки тому

      @@TheVinylGuru Haha. Rekkids. Good one. 😂

  • @idontsmile666
    @idontsmile666 2 роки тому +1

    The karen of the vinyl community is what I called her. This annoyed me on so many levels as she obviously doesn't understand the reason why we collect such things.

  • @DanSPsych67
    @DanSPsych67 2 роки тому

    I Don't Understand this Article.... Why is She being Mean to Us?. If I wasn't proud to be a record guy... And a big Boy.. She found almost made me Cry... ( Sniff Sniff)....

  • @keithwood4031
    @keithwood4031 2 роки тому +2

    Good to see you back Guru, was wondering if you're OK. Don't you think this kind of article (& attitude) says more about her than any of us? Take care and stay safe from me in Bayern.

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому

      Hey hey sweetie! Appreciate that, Keith.

  • @stevep7582
    @stevep7582 Рік тому

    A little late here but that has to be one of the purest samples of undiluted condescension that I have seen in quite some time. 😄 She is a simpleton.

  • @6AM_YT
    @6AM_YT Рік тому

    Wait... what the fuck does ABBA have to do with the "vinyl resurgence?"

  • @photodave219
    @photodave219 2 роки тому

    I wonder what her former colleague Trent Crimm would think?

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому +1

      She needs a new toy. The vibrating kind.

  • @moonytheloony6516
    @moonytheloony6516 2 роки тому

    I read this article a few times and I’m drawing a parallel that’s worth mentioning.
    I suspect Katie Edwards could be married to an audiophile. I could be wrong but it’s distinctly possible. The article provided a clue or two.
    By “audiophile” I don’t mean one of the nice Steve Guttenberg-like audiophiles either, but instead it could be one of “those” audiophiles, you know the type, the one’s who look down on others for having a music taste not as “refined” as their own, and also for committing the mortal sin of owning inferior pieces of kit under $25,000 U.S. dollars in which to listen, as well.
    These spackleheads congregate quite well amongst their own….and have been called out on various UA-cam channels for mocking anyone who enjoys a record on a entry-level turntable or a Crosley Cruiser…..so there is THAT, and I suspect Katie runs around, reluctantly at times, within these particular circles, rolling her eyes.
    Even if this is the case, I will not grant her points as if she’s been a victim to her husband’s adventures in record collecting.
    Katie Edwards sounds like a snob whose at odds with other forms of snobbery that isn’t her kind of snobbery, so she has to snob-off in an article.
    I don’t think any media format regarding music is superior and that’s because we all listening quite differently. I do think Katie may be telling the truth when she claims to be unable to tell the difference between vinyl and digital music. I know a lot of people who say the very same thing. I can tell the difference, but is it night & day?
    No.
    All formats have potential advantages & disadvantages that levels the playing field for everyone to enjoy in their own way. Fortunately the record enthusiasts I know don’t behave like they are better than those who prefer their iPods. It should be about the music itself and sharing in that experience, and far, far less about the format or the equipment that’s playing it.
    But that’s just me.
    It’s an amateurish opinion piece.

  • @zatynrock
    @zatynrock 2 роки тому

    Imagine being the husband and reading the article? Geez!

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому

      Straight divorce papers the next day. hahahaha

  • @michaels5128
    @michaels5128 2 роки тому

    Great video VG! The journalist and her editor picked such a clickbait title. I haven't been to a Dinner party since the start of COVID and realistically, I don't have a ton of friends who have the same musical tastes as me. Sadly, her husband probably gets more satisfaction (sexual or otherwise) from his LPs than her. Perhaps a better title for the article would have been "I hate my husband the vinyl collector."

  • @likeitornotwithmichaellane4896
    @likeitornotwithmichaellane4896 2 роки тому +1

    Good day, honey. 😍💖 You’re so right. This is indeed hate speech. She’s a miserable person. I’m kinda sad for her. Love you, Vinyl Guru.

  • @KevinSchmidt-sj2rk
    @KevinSchmidt-sj2rk 2 роки тому

    After watching this video I looked up Katie Edwards article on the Independent and researched her background.I have come to the conclusion it is Ms Edwards who has the problem. She claims to be a 'cultural commentator' has a PhD in biblical studies and is currently a Fellow in theology. Her loathing of record collectors implied she considers it idolatry; eg, records are the Golden Calf for record collectors. Her commentary about records is filled with supposition and inaccuracies. She failed as a journalist to even do the basic minimum research to be considered credible. She also took issue with her husband's record collection. The polarizing timbre of her voice, in my opinion, is the issue isn't so much collecting records is a pointless endeavor, but not actually playing Bob Seger's, Horizontal Bop enough. My suggestion for her husband is to listen to his Tammy Wynette record, D-I-V-O-R-C-E.. Her problem is the 'rut' and not the 'groove'.

  • @bradgibson4698
    @bradgibson4698 2 роки тому

    Great show this reminds me of someone talking to you with trying to arque about nothing!!!! I usally hear these words " Blah Blah Blah"

  • @gondokingo
    @gondokingo Рік тому

    no link to the article?

  • @walterpen371
    @walterpen371 2 роки тому

    The Protest Virus is running rampant.
    A simple solution for that lady is to groove to your last video, "Valentine's Day Perfect DJ Vinyl Mix" Her heart and hate will melt for sure. Go Girl Go !!!

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому

      Bless you, Walt. That was such a sweet comment.

  • @DamonBrazzellUkesploitation
    @DamonBrazzellUkesploitation 2 роки тому +1

    I am not a snob!
    I plead the fifth on my own neuroticism.
    Seriously, I can't stand folks who hate seeing other people enjoying something.

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому +1

      YEs, thats my point too. Who cares if they are happy? She must be so miserable seeing her hubby happy

    • @DamonBrazzellUkesploitation
      @DamonBrazzellUkesploitation 2 роки тому

      If she's making all the money and he's spending it on his hobby at the expense of her wants and needs, I see the gripe. But that's a personal issue that they need to deal with.

  • @whateverthing71
    @whateverthing71 2 роки тому

    "Subscribe if you haven't ... baret-y" I see what you did there! 😂

  • @ErickJohnson-rz5lg
    @ErickJohnson-rz5lg 2 роки тому +1

    The haters gonna hate long live the wax darling 🤩😂😂🤩😂🤩 🎸🎸🎸🎷🎷🎷🎷🎻🎻🎻🎺🎺🎺🎺👨‍🎤👨‍🎤👨‍🎤🎶🎶

  • @darlenegoodwin
    @darlenegoodwin 2 роки тому

    Did he divorce her? Somehow some women just don't get it when it comes to vinyl records. Like I had a man who didn't like vinyl record collecting, per se. Hasn't happened to me. He loves it.

  • @iskandertime747
    @iskandertime747 2 роки тому

    She is spilling alot of ink to send her husband a passive aggressive note.

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому

      Exactly. This should have been done privately. Not on Independent which is like the equivalent of NYTimes.

  • @jaduval11
    @jaduval11 2 роки тому

    If you want a add free experience… play records 😁

  • @mistery-ed7900
    @mistery-ed7900 2 роки тому +3

    I have a simple solution to her problem.
    Divorce.
    Her entire rant is a complaint based on her husband and his collection and collecting/playing of records.
    Maybe he's the one with a good income.

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому +2

      YES!!! Shes airing out ALL. her martial problems to the public. Why?

  • @NickP333
    @NickP333 2 роки тому

    🙄 Wow…. 🤦‍♂️ So, this woman finds it necessary to put down her husband’s hobby on a public forum? I’ve got a sneaking suspicion there’s more at play and more issues than his record collection, but then, why state the obvious?

  • @midnightkiss2863
    @midnightkiss2863 2 роки тому

    Funny im a Neurotic snob 2 and i like it because its realy funny

  • @BlueTitan7
    @BlueTitan7 2 роки тому

    Well...to start with, this day and age anyone can come up with any stupid idea or opinion and somehow be heard. To put it another way, there's too much freedom being given but that's my opinion too and maybe I am not that nice a person when it comes to this subject. Vinyl offers the best sound. Digital stuff always sounded too treble-y to me. The bass is also warmer, etc. The physical format not only makes it more precious as an item, but it also gives you a good size cover where you can appreciate the artwork, then the inlet with letters you can actually read without a magnifying glass, photos, etc. It can be touched, it can be smelled. It also offered the opportunity to the artists to make a living, both designers and musicians. When was the last time you heard of a golden record? Nowadays they have to rely on other means to generate an income; music is copied-stolen and passed on digitally. I can go on forever, I believe most reading this already know and agree. Last thing about it is that there is no fast forward, you sit down and LISTEN, not skip after 5 seconds forming an opinion without giving the music a chance. I like rock music mainly, I'd listen to a new album 5 times, one for each instrument+1 before I say I do or do not like it. As for that poor soul, I say we all chip in, send her a lot of batteries so she never runs out of them for her dildo again. I won't even look her up, she's a nobody trying hard to be heard. Ciao friends :)

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому

      I agree, titan! LMAO lets all chip in for her new batteries. That had me cackling, darling.

  • @smittie0174
    @smittie0174 2 роки тому

    One third of the dining room? That’s not a lot honestly. Good thing she’s not seen my house. One wall of vinyl, one wall of CD and a Napa wall rack of cassettes. This doesn’t include the stray shelves of 78s and “gasp” 8 tracks. And oh yeah, there’s a stand of DVDs and BluRay in another room.
    I think she had an argument with hubby and wrote this to “win”. You know, get some online comments to prove her point. As for vibration causing jumps, is he using a suitcase player?

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому +1

      I think she'd hate me too. Oh totally. Airing him out like dirty laundry is classless.

  • @twofromthetrunk9932
    @twofromthetrunk9932 2 роки тому

    Why doesn’t the journalist ask a collector why they collect ??

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому +1

      The journalist is married to the collector haha

    • @twofromthetrunk9932
      @twofromthetrunk9932 2 роки тому

      @@TheVinylGuru you’d think they’d talk. Maybe that his escape from her lol

  • @danielnagin5780
    @danielnagin5780 2 роки тому

    Honestly...Who Cares!?! Really??
    It's amazing what people collect...it's not a question of technology. It's just ignorance. My record collecting and the action of it prevents me from doing worse things!

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому +1

      I agree, why she buds her biz in things that makes people joyous is odd

  • @tterapin
    @tterapin 2 роки тому

    It is a shame that she would hate what she doesn't understand --It seems that it is some part of today's so-called woke culture - If you don't like something hate it and put down others - It seems that she hasn't really listened to music in one of its purist formats - So sad that she doesn't know what she is missing - A real journalist reports facts not irrelevant opinions.

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому

      Woke culture hurts everyone. She cant stand her man. Every part of him. Terrible.

  • @PirateNovelist
    @PirateNovelist 2 роки тому

    We sure someone from Pitchfork didn’t go undercover at The Independent? I don’t mind opinion pieces they are sometimes an interesting way to look at things. Just label it as “OPINION” first. Also she forgets the fact that when the servers go down music go down…. Idk haters gonna hate….

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому

      hahaha undercover job. I agree, labeling this as actual news? Come AAAAN, lady!

  • @oldskool1979
    @oldskool1979 2 роки тому

    Spending hard earned money and supporting artists is snobbery ?

  • @mikeymike7721
    @mikeymike7721 2 роки тому

    i luv my records, but she's not exactly wrong

    • @MetalSamantha
      @MetalSamantha 2 роки тому

      Yes she is

    • @TheVinylGuru
      @TheVinylGuru  2 роки тому +1

      Her tone was wrong. But I know what you mean.

    • @mikeymike7721
      @mikeymike7721 2 роки тому

      ​@@TheVinylGuru ya, tone means a lot, but writers do that to attract attention. but if we look at the points she makes, many of them describe me personally. parading at dinner parties? well, i do think my records reflect my personality and secretly wish people look at them when over lol. am i neurotic about condition? check. not just vinyl condition, but jacket condition as well? double check. am i a bit of a snob? well, i'll never show it cuz i'm not a jerk, but I do silently judge. do i play my rare/valuable records? that's a joke question, right? i think it's ok to be called out on our shit, and still enjoy records at the same time. at least i try not to take myself too seriously. thanks for the reply Guru :)

    • @MetalSamantha
      @MetalSamantha 2 роки тому

      @@TheVinylGuru She was wrong to say that anyone for whom music is more than just something you have on very quietly just in the background to make social occasions smoother is a "neurotic sob", and she was wrong to imply that who honestly cares what song it is, who is singing, or if you hear it again, and if you do care you are a sad case, she is wrong to assume that the space vinyl takes up is always a negative, for everyone, and she is wrong that records always jump and skip constantly
      From what she has said, either her husband has set his table up incorrectly (or he may have a faulty deck) or he puts his fingers all them and never cleans them. Probably both.
      She I think she is wrong

  • @chilligoz
    @chilligoz 2 роки тому

    Her husband spends more time with his vinyl then her…..
    I would to if she was my wife…. Just saying 😂

  • @jameschant2740
    @jameschant2740 2 роки тому

    If you follow this critic's slanted opinion you might as well give up on the very idea of being a collector of anything because it takes up space.