on vinyl (Patreon)

i had planned to do a bunch of vinyl this year, but thinking it over, i'm not so sure. not out of preference, but out of thinking on vinyl itself and what it is and what it does.

vinyl is immensely troubling ecologically at this point and i'm not sure how comfortable i feel continuing to add to that. i may do "one last record" as a send-off or something - "MORE ADVENTURES" is just becoming increasingly vinyl-unfriendly, too. maybe vinyl isn't the answer for it anyways.

i've been thinking on this for some time now - since benn's video dropped in 2019 - and just feel increasingly wrong putting my need to make ends meet over the world that i'll be leaving behind when i'm gone.

i've started using recycled and recyclable (or compostable) mailers, i'm pretty set on moving all of my CDs to recycled cardboard & egg carton and using LED printing as opposed to ink, which fumes off like crazy and is super wasteful, and in the cases where i do wind up using plastic (the discs/cassettes themselves) it's a lesser amount, and in the case of cassettes, the recording material itself can be reused for other purposes down the line.

while i can't completely cut out the crap, ideally i'd like to cut out as much as possible. i'll be ruminating on this more, certainly. cheers, and lots of love.