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Personal collection, record of the day 08Sep26 (383) Kid Koala – Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Label: Ninja Tune – ZEN34XXV Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Black Yolk Flexi-disc, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM, Single Sided All Media, Limited Edition Country: Europe Released: 2025 Genre: Hip Hop Style: Cut-up/DJ

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Down to 1,024 vinyl albums from nearly 3,000 only three years ago. Slowly embracing minimalism. By the end, I hope to own just Close to the Edge, preferably on CD, because apparently even my hoarding needs a fucking epilogue. 😁 #NowPlaying

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Five years of writing about the last song on albums, and today a peer-reviewed article based on the data is free to read: The cover feature in this month's Significance, the RSS magazine. 2,284 albums, 1953 to 2026 and one question: "Are closing tracks actually different?"

Cover of Significance magazine, September 2026 (volume 23, Issue 5). The masthead features the title "SIGNIFICANCE" in bold red text against a beige background. The left side includes logos for the Royal Statistical Society, the American Statistical Association, and the Statistical Society of Australia.

The central illustration depicts a stylized figure in a blue top holding a large red vinyl record with a white and blue centre directly in front of their face, completely obscuring it. In the bottom right corner, text in red capital letters reads "VINYL ANALYSIS" above the subtitle "WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH ALBUM CLOSING TRACKS?".

The surprise. People say vinyl physics is the reason: inner grooves can't hold loud sound as well, so the quiet song went last. But when that restraint goes, the impact doesn't. Cassette (no inner groove) overtook vinyl in 1983; CD finished the job by the 90s. Yet the dB gap more than doubled.

I found my old CD booklet and it has tons of CDs stuff I ripped back from my club kid days—the early 2000s were a time—but I have nothing to play them on except my Xbox. Now I want to unrip (de-rip?) them back to digital.

Finally deleted spotify and it feels good (i would've done it earlier but my sis had to cancel our family plan first, & i needed to make sure i could get my playlists elsewhere) I'm now using Musicbee for all my ripped CDs and downloaded music, & mercifully it has a way to add my podcasts!

Anyway I ripped almost all of my CDs a couple of weeks ago. Thing I hate about The Teens (of whatever age) getting into physical media is the days of 15 CDs for $10 at garage sales is over for a while.