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In Reply to: Re: CDs still rule the roost! posted by themadmilkman on September 25, 2004 at 00:17:25:
They're software sales figures from the RIAA. Easy to find on their site.It's a reasonable inference that if people are buying turntables, many of them must be buying something to play on them. The figures could not possibly tell us how many used LPs (or CDs, SACDs, and DVD-A's are being sold) or what they non-members of the RIAA sell. Anyway, it appears lots, lots more CDs are being sold than LPs or any of the hi-rez formats.
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"Nature loves to hide."
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Something tells me that there just might be a few more used lps out there than hi-rez formats. Perhaps even cds. But, who knows. And frankly who cares? If you can pick up hundreds and hundreds of near-mint or excellent lps as I and many others have, do we really care if the RIAA is counting?
Big J.
"If you can pick up hundreds and hundreds of near-mint or excellent lps as I and many others have, do we really care if the RIAA is counting?"Well, given your premise, which is by no means so obvious, in the near term, nothing.
However, in the long term, LPs remain a small niche market, and probably will decline even further, since not many are being produced.
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"Nature loves to hide."
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...meant to replace the prevalent DVD players, I would find it entirely credible that ANY removable disc-based media is for the chop. One shouldn't underestimate just how happy music companies would be if they didn't have the headache of producing and distributing CDs/SACDs/DVDs[any shade], and how much their profit margins might improve.And since the CD was sold to us as more convenient than the lp in terms of size and weight, need one dwell for long on how much a download weighs? Or 10,000 downloads? CD hoisted on its own petard?
Given that premise, I'm content to hoover up as much good music that I can on vinyl, secure in the knowledge that the future is likely to be a time of archiving remaining mastertapes for storage of all media as data (magnetic, optical?) for presentation by download. Maybe in that future, we can see the final reemergence of vinyl as a listening media of *choice* rather than one of scientific supremacy.
Big J.
Well, I can't see that as helping make LPs more popular, which was the question. Yes, it may well be that this will by and large replace physical storage media.
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"Nature loves to hide."
---Heraclitus of Ephesus (trans. Wheelwright)
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