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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I don't know what sort of music you like, but all the bands I still follow release vinyl and it's the preferred format for just about everyone I know. I don't really expect that to change until we're all dead. Same goes for books. It's not a nostalgia thing either, vinyl/paper are the better format so neither will die out until a new generation grows up without ever experiencing them. Digital versions are just a compromise between quality and convenience.
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I agree that because of incredibly stupid decisions by record companies, CD sound quality isn't as good as it should be. By wanting to make the CD as 'loud' as possible, they are often causing nasty clipping and distortion.
Technical details of vinyl records prevent them from doing this, and it doesn't surprise me that in some instances the vinyl will have a better sound.
And apparently 2011 saw the
strongest sales of vinyl since 1991, with about 250,000 vinyl albums sold in the UK.
Compared to
86 million CD albums and 26 million album downloads.
0.2% of the market is dead. It doesn't have to stop being produced to be dead as a mass format. There are still people who produce scrolls on parchment.
[EDIT: adding some on-topic content]
I don't expect paper books to die as quickly as vinyl, but arguing that vinyl isn't dead, and so paper books won't die either, is a non-starter.