Vinyl records outsell CDs for first time in decades https://bbc.in/402cVE7
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> Vinyl records outsell CDs for first time in decades
Some didn't believe we would live to see this. I did!
@gordoooo_z
I'm not a hardcore vynil fan myself, I'm more of a CD type, but I still thought this would happen. I grew up when all three: vynils, CDs and cassettes, were in use, then MP3s appeared and I knew this will take over and vynils will stay as most aesthetically pleasing. Still prefer the CDs as you don't have to turn them over that often 🤣
Good point though! I think streaming is the worst in this regard, no toxic materials, but transmission needs more power.
@m0xee in the case of streaming, it's the worst because everybody wins esxcept for the artist. For all the democratization of the music industry, in that you can pretty much go it on your own, and find your niche as long as you can whip up a quick website or bandcamp, and handle your socials, the sad fact is that 250,000 streams a month won't necessarily even feed you, let alone keep a roof over your head. Your only hope is live shows, merch, and hopefully bandcamp sales.
@gordoooo_z Despite having unlimited data plan almost all the time I never got into streaming 🤷
It's not audio quality or the internet connection requirement, I just somehow don't get it. I have a 200 Gb SD card in my phone filled mostly with music and most of the internal storage is used for audio too. This includes my extensive CD collection encoded to FLAC format. That's a lot of music for all possible moods, it never gets old 😁
@m0xee yeah, I definitely get that. For me it kind of happened by accident. My buddy spilled a beer on my computer the last year of high school, and then I was on a shitty laptop for a bit, and then I discovered Grooveshark, which was kind of a stopgap, and then I just got used to it I guess? I can't deny that I'm spoiled by having ommediate access to whatever I want to hear right damn now, but it's not like torrenting an album took more than 20min back then (and now it's more like...
@m0xee ...20 seconds).
My biggest reason for wanting to cancel Spotify (aside from aforementioned moral qualms) is that the more time passes, the more gaps I find in my mental rolodex of every album or song I've ever heard. I used to be so meticulous about tagging, and sorting and organizing, and getting the correct album cover (no reissues, no deluxe editions unless that's what I had), and when I wanted to hear something, I could recall it like 🫰 that!
That was my equivalent of...
@gordoooo_z Yes, this! Also — concept albums, I always liked the idea, but streaming kinda killed it. When people were listening to albums on repeat they could get into the whole idea and songs they didn't like on first listen could grow on them — at least that's how it works for me. With streaming people listen only to particular songs/tracks they like without giving everything else and album as a whole a chance.
@m0xee ...genuinely good but otherwise distinct songs. Like the sequence and flow and throughline of a well thought out album.
You know what I'm saying, lol.
@m0xee it's not dead though. I mean, maybe the listeners have changed, but if I think back to the 90's, not really that much. There are always going to be people who just want to hear that song they have stuck in their head, and who am I to tell them they're wrong?
But there's also still great albums coming out in the streaming era, many of which I've spent hours repeating, until I ran out of data and had to start deleting apps to save all my recent favourites 😅
@m0xee Glad those 2GB/$50 days are over. Now I finally have 20GB and I never have to leave the house again 🤷♂️
@m0xee Yeah that never really changed for me. Among my first vinyl purchases were Ziggy Stardust, and Dark Side of the Moon (still got both of the posters from that record on my wall, right behind me), and EL&P's Tarkus (oh man, that crazy percussive B3), so I was all about the album oriented rock thing. Aside from that, I just see the album as an art in itself. Not like the 1 or 2 singles plus 17 tracks of filler they sold us all through the 90's, or not even a collection of...