On 16/03/2009 19:08, Martin Dust wrote:
Odeluga, Ken wrote:
Well the writing's on the wall when people like Tristan aka Phonopsia of
this parish, say they're buying hardly any vinyl nowadays and mostly
buying digital. This from someone whom, if you know him as well as I do,
was surely amongst the biggest consumers of vinyl records in the UK for
several years. That is not an exaggeration.
It's a fair point Ken but one person isn't everybody and I can fully
understand why Tristan has changed the way he purchases his music, all
valid points.
But I don't feel it's the "writing" on the way tho, far from it - now
is the time for the music makers to take back control and start
dealing direct.
Yeah, I'm aware that some people who switched to digital are feeling a
longing for the physical object again. My primary reasons for switching
are down to cost and the time involved in encoding vinyl digitally
(since I listen about 99% digitally). I find these advantages compelling
but I understand why the audio, tactile or packaging aesthetics of vinyl
are more important to others. I just wish the few hold-out labels that
refuse to publish digitally would realise that this only alienates
buyers (some of them long-time fans). Rather, I'm sure they do but I
wish they would care. I mean, there's been KDJ and Theo Parrish CDs for
ages. Why not downloads? For me this just means their music fails to
reach a large part of their audience. In fact, I might actually start
buying the odd release on vinyl again if it were packaged with a digital
copy of the tracks, or if you got a license to download them from the
label website. As is, I have yet to encode the last album I bought - the
Flying Lotus album, which I really would like to hear more than the once
or twice I've put it on so far - which came my way some time last Autumn
I think.
Tristan
