sexton said:

NorthC said:

sexton said:

ICM, the agency that conducted the poll is British so I'm guessing the people answering the vinyl poll most likely could not have affected the U.S. election in any way. Brexit on the other hand...

Edit: The writer of the article is also British.

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No, of course not. My Trump remark was a joke because voting for him was the most idiotic thing I could think of!

Yes, you've made it clear in other threads how much you enjoy goofing on the USA so no surprise there.

sexton said:

Here's another article from The Guardian that refers to a poll that says half of the respondents who buy records don't play them.

I don’t need to play my vinyl to love it

Vinyl sales may be on the up, but according to an ICM poll, almost half of people who bought a vinyl album last month have yet to listen to it. And of people who buy records, the poll found, 41% have a turntable they never use – and 7% don’t even own a record player.

So as a buyer of vinyl that I no longer play, I have to ask: what’s in it for us? The romance of owning a physical object? Having to go to a particular place and spend cold hard contactless money to buy it? That’s certainly more rewarding than idly downloading a song while you’re sitting on the loo. Or is it just about hanging a copy of Adele’s latest album, last year’s biggest selling vinyl album, on the wall of your lounge to look cultured?

Read the rest of the article here: https://www.theguardian.c...store-day

The article was actually positive. I dont play them as mush as I used to (life, responsibilities, work etc) but what I wouldnt give to have a full week off of work and do such a thing and appreciate them like I did as a teen. Did the same thing he did, got rid of a bunch of nonsense albums I only bought for one track, now I am very careful about what i want. They have to be classic albums or 12" singles that still to this day are not available for purchase or on youtube

damosuzuki said:

thekidsgirl said:

I don't see the appeal, but is doing this really much different from people who buy toys/figurines they never remove from the package?

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i was actually just discussing the topic of vinyl & downloads with some of the younger guys in the office today, and one of them - a guy barely past 20 - said he owns about 50 vinyl records, even though he has no way of playing them. he buys them mostly to support the bands (most of them are local, indie releases) & for the novelty, and i think i can understand that.

I understand that too, and actually respect that he wants to support musicians he enjoys in times when so many don't see the value in music... While I enjoy buying records, and would feel a bit wasteful and silly not playing them, spinning vinyl is by no means my primary way of listening to music

Small record stores too.

sexton said:

EmmaMcG said:

I'd say a lot of it is to do with vinyl being so expensive. If you download an album from say iTunes, what does that cost? 11 euro? Something like that? Go into HMV or Tower Records and you're going to pay up to 30 quid for the same album. So naturally vinyl will make more money even if more people choose to download. Another reason for it, and this one is applicable to me, is that if you're willing to forego a physical copy, you might as well just get it free by downloading it illegally. Now, personally, I'll almost always buy the physical cd but if a CD copy is unavailable, as was the case with Phase Two and Lotus Flower, I'm not going to pay for a download. So maybe download sales are down because of people doing that too?

I'd think these numbers show more that people prefer streaming over digital sales.

^^^This and illegal downloading. The trend of only buying singles and not albums is part of the equation too.