45worlds Forum - View Single Post - Vinyl albums outsold CDs last year

14th Mar 2023, 7:46 PM
	Quad5point1 Member since Jul 2012 10496 Points	It's the long lasting quality I'm after whch, no matter how careful you are with vinyl they will always degrade much faster than a CD, and yes I too can walk into a Charity shop and buy 3 CD's for £1, that's if you want Bing Crosby, Dean Martin and countless Soundtrack albums but the same charity shops will have Ken Dodd's Greatest hits on Vinyl for £25?. God forbid they ever get any Beatles, I feel sorry for the unenlightened people buying charity shop vinyl because somebody somewhere said "Vinyl's making a comeback and they're worth a lot of money now". You'll also never find SHM-CD's, Blu-Ray Audio and DVD Audio in a charity shop. Personally I think it's a blip, it's just the over-marketing of vinyl is better than CD with it's clever use of sentiment and the record companies trying to get rid of Digital media in favour of Streaming. One thing I never ever got was this 180g vinyl, back in the 60's and 70's vinyl was never 180g and particularly during the oil crisis of the 70's when they used recycled vinyl which had terrible sound reproduction. The truth is that digital media is a lot easier to copy and distribute and that's why the record giants want it gone, they're losing money and want people to pay monthly fees for the consumption of music and overcharge for inferior vinyl.