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The "death" of the music industry
leftandleaving:
I only buy vinyl because it's bigger and cooler-looking than cds... I have a record player, but every time I try to listen to anything on it, it just skips every few minutes and drives me crazy. I tried balancing a dime on the needle and I'm pretty sure that it messed something up because now the sound is all wonky.
Oh, uh, rahr rahr the music is dead long live the music.
KharBevNor:
Yeah, from what I remember there's not a very great price difference between getting runs of vinyl and runs of CDs pressed (CDs are cheaper for very short runs but it evens out the more you do, iirc). I know several tiny bands and artists who aren't on any label who release physically exclusively in vinyl format.
pwhodges:
Of course, I'm sure you realise that (apart possibly from archival durability) there is no technical audio advantage to vinyl over CDs or uncompressed digital downloads. The difference is that they are mastered with due sympathy to the medium, i.e. better; this mastering could as easily be distributed digitally (as it was almost certainly generated anyway) if the bloody stupidity of the loudness wars could be hit on the head.
KharBevNor:
Yeah, pretty much. If I'm going to splash on a physical product, I want it to be something that the digital is incapable of giving me.
pwhodges:
The artwork thing is sort-of valid, though actually there's no reason that a CD can't be packaged with decent large artwork - I have a couple which are inserted in a coffee-table type of book, and several in ordinary-sized books, both hard and soft cover. I can happily do without the ritual, though.
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