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Analog Revival Means Vinyl Will Outlive CD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cdrs-are-toast-next-thursday-anyway dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In the age of the iPod, an unlikely revival is taking place — kids are turning to 7" vinyl to get their kicks. Sales of 7" singles are apparently through the roof. Bands like the White Stripes are releasing thousands of new singles on the format, and record purchases have risen by over a million units in the last year — back to 1998 levels. NME told CNET: "it's very possible that the CD might become obsolete in an age of download music but the vinyl record will survive,". The article explains how indie kids are drawn to vinyl because "the tactile joy of owning a physical object that represents your attachment to a band is infinitely more enjoyable than entering a credit card number into iTunes.""

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  1. Re:Bah! Vinyl will never replace by Otter · · Score: -1, Troll
    In all seriousness -- where does a hipster idiot -- errr, sorry -- "indie kid" get a device on which to play these vinyl records? It's not like you can go into Best Buy and purchase one. I guess they can appropriate their grandparents' old record player along with their glasses and pants. (They'd do better to take the records, too -- maybe we could return to that brief period when Louis Prima drove Green Day off the radio for a few months in the 90's?)

    As long as I'm posting, I also have to laugh at the spin on this story relative to last week's "People buy CDs instead of online tracks because of ideological opposition to DRM!" story.

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  2. Re:Sliders by MightyYar · · Score: 0, Troll

    Was he any good? C'mon, we want details.

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  3. Re:7-inches of Pure Joy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ah, I remember my GF's delight the day she discovered my big 10".

          Yeah your GF (Gay Friend) must have been really happy. Because he was into garden gnomes too and those 10 inch ones are hard to find. But then he saw your dick and that was why you broke up wasn't it?

  4. Re:Sliders by MindStalker · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ok that was random, I have to know what club was this exactly! :)

    (I know your just a troll, but playing along for the fun of it).

  5. Re:How is that any different... by superyooser · · Score: 0, Troll

    Finally, people enjoy the size of the cover art. Cover art died with the CD, a great many people believe that.

    No, it didn't. Remember the long boxes CDs used to be packaged in? You can blame the environmentalists for killing cover art. But personally, I never had a great attachment to it.

  6. Re:Baloney by Ant+P. · · Score: 0, Troll

    Vinyl sounds better because we are human beings. Maybe you're not, but that's besides the point.