On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 6:57 PM, J.C. O'Connell <hifis...@gate.net> wrote: > reissues dominate the audiophile market, and the audiophile > market dominates drives all new record sales in 2009. LPs are > only really being bought by audiophiles. Why would anyone > buy lps for any other reason than sound quaity, they > cost much more than CD or mp3, and if you don't have the right gear or > care to > make them sound better than CD, why bother with the drawbacks of vinyl?? > Nope there is no logic in the new vinyl market being > dominated by dance music, DJ wannabes or non audiophiles, just cant buy > that one. The other factor is age, most people using vinyl > I believe are older demographic, not the DJ or Dance type > demographic either. Im now saying there arent some young > people getting into vinyl for the first time, but in my > experience with dealers, at record shows, etc, its mostly > older people who have used vinyl all along for years, not newbies. > > -- > J.C. O'Connell (mailto:hifis...@gate.net)
Actually there's a very simple logic behind it. Most singles are moderate run items with quick turnarounds and a short shelf life. This is well suited to vinyl production but poorly suited to CD production which is rather non-economic for short runs. If you're going to be charging $15-20 for a single anyways, might as well make it vinyl. Especially since you'll need to do the vinyl run anyways for the working DJ's and wannabe's. And record shows are of course oriented towards the older, audiophile crowd. Which is very non-representative of the overall market (and of the music market in general). You are only seeing a small side of things because your choices where to shop self-select for it. The only kids you're going to see there are hipsters buying vintage junk. Hit some good clubs and some dance/electronica oriented stores and you'll see tons of vinyl. And provide some actual numbers on that supposed million or more copy selling Audiophile market, as that's how big it would have to be to be bigger than Dance and Electronica. The overal US Vinyl market was around 2 million LP's this year and an unknown number of singles. In the UK vinyl singles alone sell over a million copies a year into a market 1/5 the size of the US. And those sales numbers cover all the major label releases but not much of the indie market, which is where a lot of dance, electronica, Hip-Hop and new rock is coming from. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
