The vinyl revival is here! (story #262)
The latest installment in this long-running series of media articles on the return of vinyl. "May The Circle Be Unbroken – The Continuing Success Story Of Vinyl".(NME)
Best bit is this quote from Roger Daltrey of The Who: “With a CD, you start with a nice plastic box and end with a scratched plastic box. It has no character whatsoever. But with vinyl, we threw away an art form that was so much more than the record… Sometimes the covers were more important than the music. The more fingerprints you got on it, the more it was a part of you.”
The article notes that vinyl sales are up 50% from 2008 and rising. In hard numbers tho, not so impressive... "Vinyl sales have risen from 700,000 in 2008 to 1million this year. And in 2009, 121.8million CDs have been sold, versus 33.2million digital albums, compared to 151.01million CDs and 27.52million digital albums for the same period last year."
Hat tip to Alan P for the link.
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