Re:Vinyl and Cassette Sales Continued to Grow Last Year
by VelNZ on Sunday January 06, 2019 @06:24PM
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I buy vinyl but don't own a record player (yet). I do it for albums I love because of the large format artwork, extra notes/images inside and supporting the artists. Digital music has become essentially free and vinyl represents a physical manifestation of music and pride of ownership, which is becoming increasingly rare these days.
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Re:Vinyl and Cassette Sales Continued to Grow Last Year
by KozmoNau7 on Monday January 07, 2019 @05:17AM
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"Pride of ownership" is nothing more than a symptom of consumerism. It's an attachment to physical manifestations of an ephemeral thing (music itself), which confers no benefits over a digitally stored or streamed copy of the same music, other than the fetishized ritual of tactile interaction with an object.
That's not to say I wholly condemn the concept, I do collect classic rock and metal on vinyl, however only for albums where it was the original release format. Buying new music on vinyl is ridiculous, there are so many other better ways to support artists.