I live in a town of about 90,000 people on Vancoucver Island. For the Canadian browsers most noticably in Western Canada you will know of the chain A&B Sound - I assume like a Tweeter in the states that sells a bit higher end recievers and CD/DVDs etc.

Well they have a small section of new sealed LP's. But here is the thing there are three more LP selling outlets on the same street in downtown Nanaimo - so I was thinking if LP's are growing here they must be growing elsewhere. And interestingly it is a lot of sub 25 year old buyers getting into these strange big black discs that are not portable and have surface noise. So I asked the ~20 yeal old goirl why she was paying $17.00Cdn for the Sarah McLachlan Re-mixed LP when she could buy the CD for $10.99?

Well D'uhh they sound like way better it's more there better highs. And of course being ~20 and female she probably knows more about highs than your's truly. Of course I was buying the same LP (alrready have the CD) and like D'uhh she was you know totally right.

The other two places of course sell used and so I picked up a 12 inch single of Roxette' The Look. Don't laugh this was one of my favorite songs and purchased more out of rekindling my memories than anything else. SO I rumaged and found my CD of Look Sharp. Seriously, the 12 inch single is just phenomenal and the cd is tinny thin and just out to lunch. Ahh these kids today - some are getting smart -- err just have better hearing.

Whoda thought DJ's of the world might have saved the LP format - and better yet brought it back to the realm where people areonce again considering it as a real iable format. With Dianna Krall, Shania Twain, Madonna, Sarah McLachlan all producig their latest albums on Vinyl --- maybe the female of our pitiful little species are the ones who will save the better format from extinction - because they can hear better than most males.

I wonder how Vinyl Sales are doing against SACD?