"Jenn" wrote in message
On Nov 18, 8:10 am, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:
In fact about 99% of all music lovers have abandoned the
LP. Only a tiny noisy minority bother with it any more.
Not all are "noisy", Arny. Some of us just like what
some LPs bring to the sonic and musical table.
It's not a matter of just liking. People like many things that they don't
publicly obsess over so frequently as we see, with that tiny noisy minority
who still bother with LPs.
A lot of recent LP sales were
related to "scratching" in dance clubs. Since digital
means for simulating scratching have become readily
available, LP sales dropped by about another 1/3 per
RIAA statistics.
Cite, please.
http://76.74.24.142/E795D602-FA50-3F...8A40B98C46.pdf
1997 0.7
1998 0.7
1999 0.5
2000 0.5
2001 0.6
2002 0.7
2003 0.5
2004 0.9 - peak LP sales 10 years - also when digital scratching started
becoming widely accepted.
2005 0.7
2006 0.6 - sales drop 1/3 from peak of 0.9
Interesting that it is hard to find RIAA's 2007 mid-year statistics, as they
usually come out in August or September