WSJ: Why Vinyl's Boom Is Over

[PAGS]

From yesterday's Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-vinyls-boom-is-over-1500721202.

Just sharing. I have no dog in this fight.

 

[OMGCat!]

Paywall; can't read it.

 

[Shominy]

Do this alternate site:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vinyl/comm..._gillian_welch_david/?st=j5gv5hhr&sh=e3863d97

 

[sqlsavior]

A collection of anecdotes, generalizations, and advertising, with only a couple of facts that support the headline's misleading conclusion.

"Black Is White" says WSJ

 

[Killer Fox]

I posted the same article a couple hours ago in a thread of mine. Sometimes if you click subscribe and then back it will show.

My relevant thread - http://audiokarma.org/forums/index....-vinyl-worthwhile.779307/page-3#post-10722586

 

[Stillhouse]

Covers ground already trodden to muck without much new or enlightening to add. Reads more like an advert for Welch and Rawlings' pressings.

 

[Nightwisher]

I remember seeing that vinyl sales were still going up at last report? Plus now Sony is getting back in the game of pressing.

 

[Condorsat]

Would not worry ( for those that actually care about these things) unless the media starts writing stories about "how the Vinyl boom is here to stay". That would be my clue that the boom (Vinyl resurgence) is really over.

 

[Killer Fox]

I thought the take away was more about recent quality than the "boom".

 

[Alobar]

Maybe they got it turned around. Could it be it's WSJ's boom that is over?

 

[onwardjames]

WSJ.....sigh. A rag for those hellbent on putting a price tag on everything.

I take this with less than a grain of salt, and I'm off to spin some vinyl.

 

[intro6]

If it's something that's niche, which vinyl is, even if sizable, that means there is a limit to future potential growth possibility. For WSJ, that's enough, in and of itself, for it to look like vinyl is over. They're all about money, after all.

 

[Blue Shadow]

Just reading parts of this thread make reading the article a waste of time. good since I don't like the paywalls and the needed workarounds

 

[Northwinds]

Record sales just for used stuff is millions of dollars a day and has been for many years. College kids are getting into them heavily now so I don't see any "end of boom", it never went away. Even when CD's came out, people were at the shops buying used records everyday though the record companies backed off production of new titles which they found to be a mistake and so started pressing again in the early 90s

EDIT: Another point is that Indie Rock bands put a lot of record format music out. There is a site on the internet devoted just to those that collect that genre CD's and records