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I agree. I don't think most people are actually listening to these. I'm guessing most people don't even own a player (or even a home audio system to hook it to). Has there been large increase in player sales as well? I'm sure there has been an increase but I doubt it had any way to go but up.

If it comes with a free download then vinyl is pretty much the perfect box to sell downloads at a brick and mortor. Thin but wide so you can't steal it easy. Lots of room for pretty artwork and extras. And nostalgia, something the cd/cassette anti-theft box didn't have. Well, The extra large cd boxes did at first but then they quit making those.

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>I don't think most people are actually listening to these. I'm guessing most people don't even own a player (or even a home audio system to hook it to). Has there been large increase in player sales as well? I'm sure there has been an increase but I doubt it had any way to go but up.

Huh...I don't perceive things that way, but this is probably due to my social biases and the fact that i buy and listen to vinyl all the time.

There seems to have been an explosion in cheap, toy-grade turntables of various brands coming out of a couple factories (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=crosley&t=h_&iar=images&dbexp=a&ia...).

>> I don't think most people are actually listening to these.

Given the high price of most brand new vinyl I'd be highly surprised if this was true. I do think you're on to something though. I will listen to the digital/streaming version of a record I have much, much more often than the vinyl copy. Usually if it's a new release I'll buy the vinyl, sit down and enjoy it start to finish, and then the only time I'll play it after that is the odd evening/weekend when I want to sit down and do nothing but listen to some music. It's kind of something you'll put aside time for (like watching a movie) but at the same time you'll still be streaming in the background all day at work.

I will admit to not actually looking at the prices of vinyl but is it much higher then just a download or much higher then cd/tapes were historically?

A new vinyl album is typically $20 a disk. That's more expensive than a digital album, but a lot of times new vinyls come with download codes for MP3s these days as well.

It's about 2-2.5x the iTunes download price. It's slightly higher but almost equivalent to a CD price in the early 2000's.

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