[bob]

On Dec 9, 9:09=A0pm, "Harry Lavo" wrote:

He might have been looking at something like the list of evidence that Sc=
ott
published here just a few days ago, which if I may quote in full, was as
follows:

=A0"The booming trend became apparent in 2003. Nielsen SoundScan
announced that ?formats classified as ?Other? (largely vinyl, but
including a small number of DVD audio- albums) showed an increase of
more than 30 per cent in the period 2000-2003.?

That also includes SACD, which was introduced in that period and, with
DVD-A, likely accounts for the totality of the increase.

(Hayes 2006) That same
year The National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM)
reported that sales of new and used vinyl records combined had
increased by more than 300 percent since 2000,

For every person who buys a used LP, somebody gets rid of one. So
that's evidence of disinterest as well as interest.

Look, there's no question that there's been an uptick, and the data we
have isn't good enough to tell us exactly when it started. The NYT
cites only an increase from 2008 to 2009, according to Nielsen
Soundscan. RIAA shipments began rising in 2007. And, let's face it, if
this had been a trend that had been going on for years, the NYT
probably wouldn't have been interested in writing about it. This is a
man-bites-dog story precisely because the turnaround is so recent.

bob