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A customer looks through records at Wax Trax in Denver on April 16, 2014. Teddy Crimmins, a sophomore at Colorado College, wrote that the difference between his experience buying a record at a record store and the experience of opening an app on his phone is the presence of human interaction.
Helen H. Richardson, Denver Post file
A customer looks through records at Wax Trax in Denver on April 16, 2014.

Re: “,” Dec. 8 Teddy Crimmins column.

While it’s commendable that the author, a college sophomore, discovered the value of human interaction entailed in buying a vinyl record vs. “downloading,” his comments underscore exactly how cold and impersonal this “society” has become. In the 1960s, the anticipation, excitement and sheer magic surrounding each new Beatles release was considerable. It fostered a shared listening experience with friends at your home.  It’s curious and slightly amusing to see “young people” these days embracing an older generation’s music (possibly because much of today’s music is vapid and wretched) and 40- to 50-year-old vinyl records that were basically tossed into dumpsters when CDs arrived in the 1980s. What isn’t amusing is the exploitative and hefty $30 to $50 price tags on these inferior-sounding “reissues” of decades-old records that sold then for $5 to $8.

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