Because vinyl still has the whole DJ aspect and collecting aspect to it.
Our sales on singles is typically stronger on vinyl then CD single
(unless it's a packed single, ie. 'Timber' which had 6 tracks and 4
videos for single price). The packaging looks better. Some singles we
only put out in generic Ninja sleeves, and you can't really do that from
a retail perspective on CD's. A fat cut (ie. one or two tracks per side)
of vinyl sounds better than any other format. Makes it harder for people
to MP3 against our wishes (fine line between promotion and piracy after
all). From a budget perpective, sometimes we decide to put out on one
format only (it's expensive keeping 2 formats in print), and in that case
vinyl will win unless there's somesort of digital aspect (ie. CD+/videos,
etc...).
Basically most indie labels are run by a bunch of obsessive record
collecting geeks with thousands of pieces of vinyl crowding out their
house....so really you got to expect this kind of thing.
Jeff
quoted 17 lines oh come on...>oh come on...
>
> no it's not a vinyl vs. CD question. I'm just wondering WHY there are
>still so many vinyl releases in this music genre. Martin Burbridge had
>some good ideas on the 'whys' of things. And that's what I'm hunting for.
>
>I mean.. It feels a lot better for me to show up at a gig with a record
>bag and no CD cases or or folders. It also takes us an extra step if we
>want to put vinyl only music into mp3 format. The manipulation of the
>music question is a moot point too.
>
>I guess if label managers chimed in, they'd say they release stuff on
>vinyl because the demand is there, but don't CD releases open up your
>music to many more consumers? These days, the vinyl club is pretty
>exclusive (in the grand sceme of things).
>
>anyway...
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