quoted 3 lines If I were suddenly to move into some bizarro world where everything only>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.
It wouldn't stop me from listening to music either, I just wouldn't be very happy about
it and do my best to change it rather than giving up and letting the multinationals
having their way without a fight.
quoted 7 lines The reason the companies don't want to deal with vinyl comes down to two>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.
I have to say that your vinyl distributers must be real fuckwits, I've never had a
record warped, cetainly not to the extent where I thought I should take it back. As for
the weight thing, I can see that, but that doesn't make them more expensive. In the UK
CDs are about 1.5 the price of vinyl and cassette, shipping of heavier and bulkier
product obviously doesn't figure that highly.
Lots of love
Tim
One of the least common things
in the world today is:
common sense.