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September 15, 2008

WSJ: Amazon stocking 250,000 vinyl titles...

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“There’s a reaction against the commoditization of music” that downloading represents, says Mike Allen, a music industry consultant and former vice president of international marketing for record company EMI Group. “With vinyl there’s something that has innate value—a physical object.”

Sound quality also plays a role. Vinyl fanatics have always maintained that LPs sound warmer and richer than digital formats. Some acts, like Beck, Tom Petty and Fleet Foxes, are playing to fans of both the old and new technology by including free CDs or MP3 downloads with vinyl versions of their albums.

Amazon recently launched a vinyl section with more than 250,000 titles, and bricks-and-mortar retailers like Best Buy and HMV are stocking more LPs. Indie record shops such as Other Music in New York and Amoeba Music in Berkeley, Calif., never stopped selling records.


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#1 AlienRendel says:

What this article is missing is that the record labels have reintroduced vinyl as the higher priced alternative to CDs (in some cases, you pay twice as much for the LP as the CD), so they have found a way once again to milk the maximum amount of $$$ from the consumer.

#2 Rob says:

@AlienRendel:

While vinyl is priced higher than CD's, it is also much more expensive to manufacture, especially in smaller quantities.


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