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For the 11th time since its conception in 2008, the world will celebrate Record Store Day this Saturday in honor of independently-owned record stores around the globe. Time for us to look at a format that is closely tied to record store culture and has made a surprise comeback in the United States and internationally: the vinyl LP. In 2017, 14 million LPs were sold in the United States, up more than 1,000 percent from 10 years earlier. But how big is vinyl’s comeback really? Should we all dust off our old record players to prepare for the future of music?
Not really. According to Nielsen’s 2017 year-end music report, LPs accounted for no more (but also no less) than 8.5 percent of album sales in the United States. When accounting for streaming and downloads of single tracks, that number drops to 2.5 percent of total music consumption – not exactly the lion’s share.
However small the impact of rising LP sales on the music industry’s bottom line may be, it’s still interesting to witness a hundred year-old technology coming back from near extinction. Let’s hope the video cassette stays buried in the back rooms of (equally endangered) video rental stores.
Wow, there’s a day for every thing, huh? Is there a Wip day?
Richer sound. No surprise, really. The real tragedy is that we boomers ruined so many wonderful albums by playing them on cheap, shitty stereo turntables back in the 60’s and early 70’s.
I don’t know, the Thorens sounded pretty fucking sweet.
Had its own little isolation booth to minimize distortion.
Right you are. Some of us eventually invested in good turntables with low tracking weight and spray bottles of Sound Guard only to have the rug pulled out from underneath with the advent of more “convenient” CDs. There is a process involved with selecting, protecting, storing, and playing records and making quality analog recordings that for me was almost as much fun as listening to the music itself.
Digital will never have the same smooth and full sound quality that analog has.
Natural sound along with your hearing and brain are analog, not digital.
Still use my Micro-Seiki Turntable with a Signet TK9 cartridge. With quality vinyl, if blows away CDs.
Music, by definition is analog, not digital.
Anyone know of the 432 HZ vs the old 423 HZ? I may be off on the numbers. One has a much better tonal quality. Read of this years ago.
Hiss, pop, hiss, pop, srrreeeeetch. Ah, the tonal quality….
For the haters, I still have over 100 vinyl class rock albums and still (rarely) play them. Even with meticulous care (handled by edges only) and the ZeroStat employed on the Bang and Olufsen lateral tracker…..hiss, pop, hiss, pop
Well something’s lost, but something’s gained in living every day.
They sold CDs on the promise of cleaner sound. Well, yeah, since digital clipped all extraneous sound to give you a reader’s digest version of the recording. Imagine if these fuckers took to modifying paintings by using only primary colors and claiming it was a richer, fuller, cleaner rendition of the artist’s intent.
OMG, Martha, look, Donald Trump sings Roger Whitaker’s greatest hits. Wow.