If I were suddenly to move into some bizarro world where everything only
comes out on flexi-disc and 8-track, that would not stop me from
listening to music.
The reason the companies don't want to deal with vinyl comes down to two
words: defects and weight. They ship vinyl to your local megastore, the
store sells it to the consumer, he gets it home and it's warped. He
brings it back to the shop, the shop gives him another and puts the warped
one in the back room. At some point the shop sorts out the defects by
distributor and ships them back. CDs weigh less and not as many are
returned.
It's too bad, but that's economics. I really liked it around '87 when you
could buy LP or CD of most titles, LP for maybe $8.99, CD for maybe
$13.99. Of course that CD only cost $2 to make but I am not going to
tackle that subject now.
On Sun, 4 Jun 1995, Tim Fothergill wrote:
quoted 9 lines Mark Kolmar wrote:> Mark Kolmar wrote:
>
> >I guess what I'm saying is, don't let the record company folks stop you
> >from listening to what you want to hear merely because they don't issue it
> >on the format you prefer. Buy a CD player -- not a crap one either (if
>
> The main thing that really pisses me off though is that someone somewhere, probably
> some fat, money-grubbing, middle-aged fuckwit who probably knows nothing about music,
> decides one day that vinyl isn't a viable format. Why does everyone have to follow