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Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Wow. What is that ‘other’ physical medium? Is MiniDisc also coming back and beating CDs?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Some artists in the punk scene are putting out cassettes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There are things like Super Audio CDs and MACDs etc... I believe there may even be some blue ray audio releases.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Those are kind of rare, though; can they really be outselling CDs by so much? Or maybe the author mislabeled the key and ‘other’ is supposed to be the sliver on top?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't know how widespread it is outside of metal, but I've been seeing more and more bands offering tapes. Sometimes a release is only on tape, other times the tape might be $6, the CD $15 and the LP $25, so there are different ties available for those who want a physical copy. I probably got 10 tapes or so within the last year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tape makes a lot of sense audio-quality wise especially for people who insist on analogue for some silly reason, the prices don't make sense, though: Tapes are expensive to manufacture. CDs and vinyl are pressed whole while tapes need to be run through a machine, centimetre by centimetre. Though maybe for small runs it does make sense as you don't need a physical master.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

You hit the nail on the head. Even ten years ago people would use national audio and get the shortest run possible (50 units).

I never got below $2 unit cost, but there’s good money to be made selling short runs of tapes after a set.