Vinyl record timing
Hi, I'd like to spend today's blog on a topic that I feel is important in my life enough to warrant a blog entry about it. The times listed for tracks on the back of vinyl records. Why are the tracks themselves shorter than the times that they say on the back of the record? For example, I just bought this record called "Happy Trails" by the Quicksilver Messenger Service. Side one is one track: The "Who Do You Love Suite". The back of the packaging says the track is 25:22, yet when I converted it to MP3, it ended up being only 24:31, a difference of about one whole minute! Anyway, I also got SpongeBob Comics #4. Haven't read it yet. I just got home and right now I'm listening to the track I just mentioned for the first time. I also got two Nice records (the band The Nice, with Keith Emerson...) I had to buy two, that's the way this weird one was packaged, two albums for the price of one. I got it for the "Five Bridges Suite." And I want to go back there next weekend, I saw Rush's Caress of Steel as I was exiting the store. I bet it will still be there, hardly anyone buys records from this guy although he has a ton of them. The place (I'm guessing here) sells mainly CDs and DVDs, but he also has a ton of vinyl records. Anyway, I got chummy with the owner of the place, he apparently knows I like Tangerine Dream and is trying to unload all the TD records he finds on me. To be nice, I buy them because I doubt he has very many customers, he thanks us profusely every time we stop in there and buy something. Which makes me wonder how he stays in business, especially with the economy the way it is. Right now, he's having a "buy 2 get one free" sale which makes me a little worried...
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