[Arny Krueger]

"Harry Lavo" wrote in message

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Harry Lavo" wrote in message


That's a reasonable position, Dick. All I am saying she
is well positioned to judge as opposed to many other of
us. I just found it another in an interesting string of
anecdotes the pickup in this market over the last
five or so years. She struck me as a reasonably
well-positioned source.

I question the logic. The management of a single retail
store or a small retail chain is basically just one
small data point.

Agreed to the single point, but this does happen to be
the largest music retailer in NYC.....not exactly podunk,
Iowa.

So what? The NYC area is an important market, but it is only a tiny
fraction of the US market.

Furthermore, anybody whose making money selling a
certain kind of product is obviously biased.

J&R sells everything electronic, everything music,
everything photo, everything kitchen, every.....man,
that's a lot of biases!

At this point vinyl is a sort of an exclusive product for them. Most of
their competition wisely abandoned it decades ago.

Let's face it, only a miniscule percentage of all
retailers of media or audio electronics even bother with
vinyl any more.

More and more every year...even Barnes and Noble, about
as conservative a music retailer as there is, is
experimenting. And I daresay there are many more doing
so today than ten years ago.

But nothing at all like they were doing 30 years ago.

Reality is a series of ups and downs, with the
current numbers appearing to be highly anomalous.

RIAA vinyl sales (millions of units):

1991 29.4

1992 13.5

1993 10.6

1994 17.8

1995 25.1

1996 36.8

1997 33.3

1998 34.0

1999 31.8

2000 27.7

2001 27.4

2002 20.5

2003 21.7

2004 19.2

2005 14.2

2006 15.7

2007 22.9

2008 56.7


Certainly is improbably....after all, "Perfect Sound
Forever" was supposed to do in vinyl.

You mean Harry that you haven't noticed that the CD knocked vinyl from 100%
of the consumer recording marketplace to less than 0.4%?