Degrees of Freedom vs. Hollywood Control Freaks

Greg Newby gbnewby at ils.unc.edu
Wed Jun 5 17:47:34 PDT 2002


On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 07:25:37PM -0500, measl at mfn.org wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Jim Choate wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Trei, Peter wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, I'm convinced - I guess that's why every single album today is
> > > released on both CD *and* vinyl - can't piss off the tens of millions of 
> > > turntable owners, after all. 
> > 
> > That's not correct. There are lots of albums (aimed at DJ's for example)
> > that are -NEVER- available except on vinyl. 
> 
> Ok, somebody correct me if I'm wrong here, but didn't they officially cease
> production of vinyl pressings several years ago?  As in *all* vinyl
> pressings???

Stop by your local independent record store, you'll find 
plenty of new vinyl.  It's especially popular with punk &
urban music, also small independent bands.

Maybe the big labels aren't putting it out any more...
by all appearances, the independent labels are.
  -- Greg





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