I’m Stan Payne. I’m 36 years old and live in Middlebury, VT. I do photography for a living. I grew up with punk, hardcore, grunge and metal music. This year have been a good year for old school punk, hardcore, grunge and metal because of new releases and reissues. I have an incredible music collection and I am still expanding my vinyl record collection as well as CD’s. Thanks to Pure Pop. I personally think that vinyls sound a whole lot better than CD’s and MP3’s. Vinyls are still recorded in audiophile. CD’s today are getting “too loud” due to the “loudness” war and MP3’s usually sound “lossy” and horrible. Vinyls are slowly making a comeback.