When will the vinyls hit the stores?

Prince says he loves the vinyl format, and he also says he loves analog sound. I hope they know that all these young "hipsters" are rocking that vinyl these days, and I'm also myself loving the vinyl, especially when it comes with a download code inside, so that I can download it as well. Warner probably wants me to buy from iTunes, and then buy the vinyl when it's available. They want me to pay twice. Thank you warner

Yeah, I know many people who'd buy at least either record on vinyl. I could see myself even doing a vinyl rip of AOA if it doesn't have the same mastering problems as the CD / download versions have.

novabrkr said:

Yeah, I know many people who'd buy at least either record on vinyl. I could see myself even doing a vinyl rip of AOA if it doesn't have the same mastering problems as the CD / download versions have.

My guess is that the songs may suffer from some amateurish sound engineering earlier in the process. Maybe Joshua put on some heavy compression and clipping to try to make it fit the distorted and heavily processed drums. Sounds like beginner mistakes we learned not to do when I studied one year at a sound engineering class in Oslo. I'm afraid it's a posibillity they'll appear on the vinyl too. Today it's very common for young indie edm producers etc to put very extreme compression on each track, then put a master compression on the output, even before it's sent for professional mastering. That means you'll have a bad mastering first, then the mastering engineer will try to fix whatever is possible to fix.

I've mentioned in another Thred about the apparently delay, I've beentod off a record store they have a provisional date of 26th November for release of both. Prince had a problem with them or something which delayed.