On Nov 19, 7:23 am, "Arny Krueger" wrote:
"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.
Again, I'm part of that tiny minority, and I and most people who like
some LPs are not particularly "noisy" about it, IMO. It seems like
those who talk/write so much about something they don't like are more
noisy.
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
Which, as I read it, is something near only 10% of the margin of error
(.3% with a 2.8% margin of error).
I thought that you might have something based on sales, rather than a
small phone survey.
What would be interesting is a stat that shows numbers of LPs sold for
listening, rather than for scratching. Impossible to know, I know.