It doesn't sound bad! Not if your turntable, stereo system and most importantly RECORDS are taken care of well. For instance, if I whip out Licensed to Ill on vinyl, and Greg (if this car was still running) pulled his fancy ass car up and stuck the cd in.... well, I'd win... Bad comparison but I'm just pissy about the fact that its the only album of the Beastie Boys they had at L'eighties night (isnt that HORRIBLE???) it sounded like crap because they were 'spinning' CDS!!!!! Haha yeah, at l'eighties night they were spinning 80's comp cd's hahahahaha.... and crappy ones too. The only violent femmes song they had was blister in the sun. That's horrible! Sorry for the lack of capitalization, this space key is going bad...