9 Feb
2007
9 Feb
'07
10:20 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
Obviously enough people like Johnny Cash enough to warrent vinyl releases of
his most recent albums:^) In fact since his death, there have been quite a
few re-releases of his early albums. I've been a fan for as long as I can
remember, and over the years I've been really surprised by some of the
people that like him.
The strange thing is that a lot (most) of these albums where the LP is
cheaper than the CD release, both appear to be done by the same record
label. I suspect that it is when the LP's are licensed and released by a
smaller specialty label that the price of the LP goes up.
Another interesting thing was that one album which I looked at recently,
advertised on the cover that it included a special code which would allow
you to download MP3's of the album. Now that's cool!
The economics of LP's vs. CD's vs. paid downloads just doesn't make sense.
I've even seen at least one brand new LP where the LP was cheaper than a
download would be!
Zane
As I mentioned the other day, vinyl sales are
increasing while CD sales are
dropping. One thing that really confuses me on the whole CD/Vinyl sales
thing is that while some albums will cost considerably more on Vinyl, a
sizable number are significantly cheaper (for example the latest Bob Dylan
or Johnny Cash albums released last year). I've also seen current vinyl
releases that have extra songs that aren't on the CD.
But how many people like Johnny Cash? How ever it may be that making
records is still cheaper than CD's since you can do that with older
hardware. I can't think where you could buy a CD press since it is
all controled by the BIG music industy.