VINYL: Maybe it's time we had an intervention.

So I've been thinking a lot about this video recently: [this video] It talks about, demonstrates and measures the air quality around vinyl. Apparently the things are leaching dangerous compounds into the air constantly, especially when being played. It made his air quality measuring device give an alarm, instead of just reporting the number of particles or something. I'm not sure, maybe it's just one of those thousands of every day life things which are technically carcinogenic, or not. It made me pause personally though, having recently lost a friend, who worked at a record store, died at a young age to cancer, had otherwise always been a strong healthy man. I'm actually more comfortable talking about this here, semi-anonymously, I don't think it'd be wise to bring this up IRL with anyone, on account of it possibly not having to do with anything. I kind of half-wish I hadn't seen the video.

Re: vinyl records Has anyone proven / disproven Benn Jordan's video about why vinyl is basically poisonous? [this video] I haven't watched it for a while but the summary is: - Vinyl records outgas harmful things that you can detect with air quality meters. (VOCs I think) - You can't dispose of them because they can't be recycled and aren't supposed to go in landfills. So buying new records from new bands violates the "reduce, reuse, recycle" principle "It's just that it's _so_ lame and uncool to shit on vinyl..." "This is just my objective opinion based on a whole lotta research... If you're an avid collector whose peepee hurts after watching this video, understand that my peepee hurts a whole lot more."