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Vinyl records outsell CDs for first time since 1986

JBraddock said:
While streaming appears to be the prevalent method of consuming music now, physical sales of albums (mostly CDs) are still ahead of digital downloads (legal).
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Comparatively, the value of a digital download is pretty small. At least with physical sales, you get pictures and liner notes. With digital download, you get a file. Not the same thing. They've tried to attach things to the file to improve the value, but it's still a file. Very disposable. And the music industry doesn't like people sharing files.

Free streaming makes more sense.
 
TheBigA said:
Comparatively, the value of a digital download is pretty small. At least with physical sales, you get pictures and liner notes. With digital download, you get a file. Not the same thing. They've tried to attach things to the file to improve the value, but it's still a file. Very disposable. And the music industry doesn't like people sharing files.

Free streaming makes more sense.
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To the industry it does and fortunately for the industry, consumers are changing from a possession-centric view of media to an on-demand consumption preference. But if you still want to own a decent-resolution copy of a work, a paid download is often the only way to buy it now. Look at how many recent releases are available as digital-only on a platform like Amazon.

As for sharing files, that ship has long sailed. Any major (or medium) new release is available for the taking online usually before the official release date. The industry's push toward streaming is to get consumers to ignore the availability of files online and go with the on-demand services. It appears to be working using paid download numbers as a guide. But what do the 'unpaid' download numbers look like?

And what happens when your streaming connection becomes unavailable?
 
What I'm seeing in my world is a lot more "EPs" being released, rather than CDs. EPs are usually 6-song collections, download only, for a lower price. The artist likes this because it gets several of their songs out at once, and the label likes it because it's not an official album release that requires the expense of distribution and promotion of physical product. But as we see in the sales figures, the consumers mainly want the hits.
 
JBraddock said:
"Lost and Found" was eventually remastered and released on Acadia's "EMI Years" CD in 2008. My recollection is that the sound was improved over the LP. The Acadia release appears, alas, to be out of print and expensive to acquire. But it's good to have Jason & The Scorchers available in the library no matter the source.
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Wow. Wish I had been aware of that in 2008. I thought I had read somewhere that the masters for those recordings were lost in a fire at Universal Music Group. A quick search says that's true, but the fire happened on June 1, 2008. So that CD was obviously done right before that event <sigh>

Dave B.
 
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