markshan
Sir Thrift a Lot
You are as wrong as you could possibly be. Want proof?
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=301091
The LP is back (officially)
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You are as wrong as you could possibly be. Want proof?
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=301091
markshan
Sir Thrift a Lot
This is just silly.
markshan
Sir Thrift a Lot
See. There is the difference. You listened. People who don't know how to listen have to rely on formulas or labels.
Doug G.
Lunatic Member
I wasn't referring to you, Dave. I was referring to a certain post that actually made fun of vinyl lovers and the writer really was being a DH.
Doug
Shelby 412
New Member
I think iTunes downloads had their drawback but at least you owned a song file to do with as you pleased. This next generation of Muzak delivery where everything is stored on cloud servers and streamed on demand to the end users via the cloud, pandora, iheart, etc, is the absolute devil. Revenue is no longer really made for the artist from selling the music, it is made by selling the bandwidth, cell phones, data plans, subscription fees. It's a jack! It could not have any less to do with the music it is whoring. It almost makes me cry for the return of the major record label days. Almost.
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MannyE
Exterminate!
Meh. There is enough cheap music on thrift store LPs to keep every one of us happy for three lifetimes. In fact there are CDs out there now for a buck just like vinyl. I recently found a Dave Grusin "discovered again" Sheffield CD for a buck! Keep your downloads I'm too busy. Lol
And new vinyl sounds great on my modest system. It's not going anywhere.
Sent from my galafreyan transdimensional communicator 100 years from now.
And new vinyl sounds great on my modest system. It's not going anywhere.
Sent from my galafreyan transdimensional communicator 100 years from now.
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grillebilly
Empty Head
This is pretty much all that needs to be said on the subject. Thanks for saying it :yes:
DougMac
Super Member
Well, I'm in favor of anything that will help support the ancillary industries so they keep me in carts, styli and even turntables.
As for the format wars, I just bought a bunch (65) of thrift store LP's. I also just bought a Sansa Clip to carry around songs I download from Rhapsody. I listen to CDs at work as well. Last night I listened to "Layla" and organ music played on the Notre Dame organ on multi-channel SACD's. It's all good.
One of the records I bought was "The Buddy Holly Story". It's a first pressing and I wish it was in better shape. Still, there's something about listening to the music of Buddy Holly coming from a 50+ year old record. It's also fun to listen to it on equipment able to render some plosives that the original engineers probably didn't hear.
Sometimes musical enjoyment encompasses more than just technical superiority of the medium.
As for the format wars, I just bought a bunch (65) of thrift store LP's. I also just bought a Sansa Clip to carry around songs I download from Rhapsody. I listen to CDs at work as well. Last night I listened to "Layla" and organ music played on the Notre Dame organ on multi-channel SACD's. It's all good.
One of the records I bought was "The Buddy Holly Story". It's a first pressing and I wish it was in better shape. Still, there's something about listening to the music of Buddy Holly coming from a 50+ year old record. It's also fun to listen to it on equipment able to render some plosives that the original engineers probably didn't hear.
Sometimes musical enjoyment encompasses more than just technical superiority of the medium.
mhardy6647
Lunatic Member
Well, no, I don't think that you did own a song file -- check the EULA (end user license agreement). I am pretty sure that you had a license to use it in certain ways (and not in other ways).
I also reckon that this is probably going to be the case... although there is still a modicum of hope for tape...
www.tapeproject.com
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Shelby 412
New Member
Right, you had an actual song file.
tomcatmixd
Musically reclined
The New York Times weighs-in with more numbers, including this:
"Among physical formats, CD sales continue to plunge while vinyl records grow into a surprisingly robust niche. Sales of albums on CD fell 19 percent by revenue to $716 million, while LP sales grew 43 percent to $146 million. A decade ago, LP sales were barely significant. But with vinyl now firmly established as a premium-priced collector’s item and an audiophile favorite, they represent about 4.6 percent of the total."
So should we be excited about less than 5% of the total market? I say "Yes." It may be a niche, but it's the coolest niche of all...
http://www.spin.com/articles/record-industry-vinyl-sales-up/?utm_source=spintwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spintwitter
"Among physical formats, CD sales continue to plunge while vinyl records grow into a surprisingly robust niche. Sales of albums on CD fell 19 percent by revenue to $716 million, while LP sales grew 43 percent to $146 million. A decade ago, LP sales were barely significant. But with vinyl now firmly established as a premium-priced collector’s item and an audiophile favorite, they represent about 4.6 percent of the total."
So should we be excited about less than 5% of the total market? I say "Yes." It may be a niche, but it's the coolest niche of all...
http://www.spin.com/articles/record-industry-vinyl-sales-up/?utm_source=spintwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spintwitter
See the OP story was from the first of the year and stats from 2013. So in 9 months record sales have grown 2.6% over last years share of the market. More than doubling from 2.0% to the current 4.6% and the year is not over yet!!
Any!! Any market that doubles in less than a year people notice and would love to be invested in.
This thread really temps me to create a sister thread called: "The Tube is back!"
Unfortunately I'd have to make-up the pretty graph...
Was the tube ever gone?
McBru6177
One Way or Another
The cartoon speaks the truth! Perhaps adding another year, say 2013, for streaming.
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