Re: vinyl? whaz dat?
Elson Trinidad
Mon, 02 Feb 1998 14:37:39 -0800
At 02:04 PM 2/2/98 -0800, Andrei Marinescu wrote:
>Finally, one of the ladies said to the other, "What kind of music do you
>think vinyl is?"
"Vinyl" is more or less a slang term. I'm sure these ladies probably own
"vinyl" themselves,
possibly some "vinyl" that was actually made of real vinyl. When phonograph
discs were sold in the mainstream, very rarely did people refer to them as
"vinyl," more as "LPs" or simply "Records." Of course there's a million
nicknames for the phonograph disc (wax, plates, etc)
and "vinyl" was just one of them. Only relatively recently (i.e. the past
decade) did "vinyl" become a widely-accepted term for the phonograph disc,
even though they were more popularly known as "records," mainly because the
term "record" (short for "recording"), is basically a blanket term for any
pre-recorded audio media (CDs, cassettes, "vinyl", DAT, MiniDisc, 8-track,
reel-to-reel (remember those?), etc.)
E