LP sales up 147%, CD sales down

[markw]

It's all about convenience to 90% of the music buying public! (Read my earlier post)
That's why bit music will win out VERY soon.

Audio enthusiasts will continue to support vinyl & CDs and they will remain available in "specialty" shops.

As long as it stays economically viable. Then we're screwed. We either pay through the nose or do without. you know the ipod generation won't subsidize good sound.

[mijs]

As long as it stays economically viable. Then we're screwed. We either pay through the nose or do without. you know the ipod generation won't subsidize good sound.

Agreed.

Hopefully, computer music will contunue to improve the way CDs did.

[pixelthis]

It's all about convenience to 90% of the music buying public! (Read my earlier post)
That's why bit music will win out VERY soon.

Audio enthusiasts will continue to support vinyl & CDs and they will remain available in "specialty" shops.

Down that path lie the bones of the dinosaurs.
There are several problems, one that todays music, designed to eventually be commercial jingles, is so crappy that quality doesnt matter that much anyway.
Another is that audiophiles tend to be loners quite a bit of the time, we have done little to create a new generation of them.
Most dont understand the value of listening to music on high quality equipment, a lot don't even know about this hobby.
In my younger days music was important, something you sat and listened to,
something that stood on its own, today its background for busy lives.
Jazz has become "smooth", elevator music in other words.
Pop and rock? Sometimes its used in commercials before they take it outta rotation.
Ditto R&B and soul.
Rap music? Vulgar pornography, mostly.
Like most cultures in decline our art is suffering, bland rethread movies and corp crap
music.
Most I listen to is the music of the dead, classic music from a time when our country still produced something of value.