1. Listening to vinyl is immersive and interactive.
One of our favorite things about vinyl is that there’s an element of interactivity to listening. You’re not just pressing ‘play’ and sitting back. You’re taking it out of the sleeve, putting it on the turntable, flipping it to side B, and more. It’s also more of what many artists intend with their records: listening to it front to back, without distraction, and to make the listener a part of the experience. To us, that element helps us immerse more into the music and listen more actively, and it’s up to us to keep it going when the music stops. Since a lot of folks during social distancing have a lot more idle time on their hands, we think listening to vinyl is a great way to occupy some of that time, and you might even get more out of your listening time.
2. With more time comes more discovery.
An inevitable side effect of being stuck at home is tidying and organizing one’s space, just to serve as something to do. Also, as we’ve seen from Marie Kondo and other sources, tidying can actually bring a lot of joy! Another fun way to incorporate vinyl more into your life while social distancing is to reorganize your collection! Take a dive through your records and rearrange them to your heart’s desire: alphabetically, by genre, by artist, and more. You could even go as far as to emulate Rob Gordon in High Fidelity and arrange them autobiographically, creating your own unique system that only you know about! Who knows, maybe when you’ve got records all over your space, you might find a new discovery within your own collection!
