"One thing is for sure, if you're a band trying to make some sales, you will do better by releasing on Vinyl than allowing a-holes like Apple to suck on it.  What you do is you create your album, get a couple of hundred presses, and promote it on the indie stores.  You can sell Vinyl for extremely generous amounts of return, and the reason you can do that, the reason people are prepared to pay it, is because they get something the pirates don't get

THEY GET SOMETHING PHYSICAL!!!"

But that wont stop Piracy/Unauthorized Distribution of Music,

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There are Old school Vinyl record shops still in business.

And they are all just quaint little outlying ,niche shops

with small dedicated followings,

languishing in the crumbling caves of the past

The Old pipeline Infrastructure for the distribution of New

recording contracts on Vinyl no longer exists.

and no record label operating in a sane,rational state of mind

would dare to try and resurrect it.

No manner of shrill yelping& rallying calls from Vinyl Enthusiasts will change this reality

"customer is happier with a physical, tangible product that can actually increase in value, and that's yet another reason why customers are happier with physical goods."

Customers are happier with physical goods offer unimpeachable

physical utility

such as items that can be:

Eaten

Driven

Lived in for shelter

and worn on the body for warmth and or fashion etc.

IMHO "Artists" should stop operating under this woeful delusion that what they do is  so Bloody vital to human Civilization

...it is not.

Sure..Artistic expression is often a useful indicator of the cultural

Identity of a group when studied  by future Sociologists/Archeologists etc..

But for the most part it is largely a rather personal expression

of an individuals view of his larger world... ok thats nice

This notion that our "Poser/Daz Products" carry the same societal importance as Tangible goods that feed and house or heal people has finally been debunked by the advent  of the "Digital Age"

its all a bit of disposable Entertainment that can easily be reproduced.

Depend on this as your primary living at your own peril.

 

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