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Originally Posted by Istvan diVega
They certainly do. Not only that, most of them buy lots of CDs and more than a few of them LPs.
To take it even further, over the last few years I have assisted a good number of youngsters (as in anyone below the age of 25 or so) I get to know through work with shopping for turntables and stereo systems.
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Lumping in CDs with vinyl is kind of nuts. Vinyl isn't going anywhere because it's a fundamentally different technology with a different sound and specialized applications in a variety of genres and subcultures. An optical disc is just a container for digital files. They're displayable, but don't have the aesthetics to appeal to collectors like vinyl. The discs and their players are still around because bajillions of them were produced during their nearly two decade ascendancy, and they remain accessible to the cash economy and to the computer illiterate.