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A recent feature in the Minot Daily News by Regional Editor Eloise Ogden reminded us of the movie "Field of Dreams."
"If you build it, he will come" was such a good line for writers to borrow and tweak to their own purpose that doing so quickly became trite. We drag it out to compare the love of baseball, the subject of "Field of Dreams," to the ongoing resurgence of vinyl record albums, which Ogden wrote about.
Spin it, and they will come.
Who will come? - to paraphrase yet another line from the movie.
In the the case of vinyl, "they" are a cross-section of American music lovers, young and old, looking to buy new music, or to replace albums they might have played decades ago or always wanted to own.
Music fans - record collectors, too - can't seem to pass up vintage albums at flea markets and garage sales, and they frequent stores such as Minot's Budget Music & Video that Ogden wrote about in Saturday's edition, to find their fix.
What's so good about vinyl? Truthfully, it's probably a case of to each his own.
But consider that the vinyl that many of use were introduced to doesn't crack or break as easily as the hard and heavier plastic albums of the '40s and '50s which they replaced. And that albums in general were superior to cassette tapes which followed records in that it was much more fun to be able to read the album jackets 100 times over while playing your music. Album covers were and still are art to aficionados.
Records also don't unravel like tapes later did, and if they developed a skip at least they didn't twist or ball up like tape did.
Warping, now that's a downside of LPs that nobody gets nostalgic about.
Budget Music & Video at 11 Main Street S., will observe its 40th anniversary in June and will also take part in the 10th annual National Record Store Day on April 22. Both sound like a lot of fun.
Will people come check it out?
Most definitely.