Wired : Vinyl may be final nail in CD's coffin

[tiddles]

Re: Wired : Vinyl may be final nail in CD's coffin

http://dancemusic.blogspot.com/2007/...goldfrapp.html

"-Bullshit alert: Wired has a piece of commentary online that argues demand for vinyl records is actually going up, despite the industry's own numbers that sales have been dropping precipitously. The only evidence in the piece comes from people (a distributor, a label spokesperson and and vinyl maker) who provide no hard numbers and who have a stake in the sales of vinyl. The report is preposterous, and it ignores the real story -- that even the truest of true-school vinyl holdouts, namely hip-hop DJs, are going digital (in their case, via Serato Scratch DJing software). The recent unshackling of digital music by labels such as EMI and Universal will only make this digital tsunami grow as far as DJs are concerned. (We need our MP3s and .wav files free of digital-rights-management limitations so it will work with DJing software). And this is coming from yours truly, a man who treasures his vinyl."

spot on, the wired article is complete shit journalism

[jeffrey collins]

Re: Wired : Vinyl may be final nail in CD's coffin

It's all about costs
Vinyl will make a comeback when
all these youngster decide it is hip
then we can unload all our records we
no longer want.

I disagree with ya on that bro. I think vinyl will make it's comeback when these labels quit putting one good song on a $12 piece of vinyl then expecting us to pay for it. Quality of tracks really went down with the advent of places like Beatport. And I know a few of you on here definitely know that one.

[FM]

Re: Wired : Vinyl may be final nail in CD's coffin

until demand as a whole completely dies down, vinyl will still live on

[Neon Logic]

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That's a bit of a 180 from where we were a year ago. Seemed like vinyl was ready to fall off the map!

[Luis Dena]

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id rather pay 5 bucks for 2 tracks at beatport than 15 bucks for a record.

fuck vynil, well fuck the distributors.

[djsethnichols]

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sounds better. and you actually get something for your money, tangible and re-sellable. well worth it imo.

paying money for a digital track (a file on my computer) seems about pointless to me. paying money for nothing. if the music is good enough, it's well worth the wax purchase.