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It has been talked about loads I know but has anyone read trouncing of the physical format?

There's also

personally speaking, I used to buy vinyl singles by the bucket load around 2003-2007 but I hardly ever buy them now, mainly 'cos I tend to listen to music on either my computer (through decent speakers obviously) or the iPod (without the awful white headphones) . I'm also way too obsessed with Scrobbling which doesn't help. This probably makes me a terrible human being.

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not dead, just different. It's all about vinyl these days for small labels and mp3 codes. Records sell to collectors. Music sells to anyone who wants it (and doesn't grab it for free).

I read both those arguements. Of course it's nicer to have a physical copy than a file. Much worse for the environment of course. Half of my vinyl and all of my tapes are in the loft. I don't have space for them. Everything gets played off my computer now - even promo CDs go in the CD drive and are played that way. I have good speakers though.

I'm sure nearly everyone here grew up pre internet and MP3 and we've all trawled through record shops and it can be a great experience for nerds like me.

I'll be sorry to see physical formats go, but I think they will eventually. A few will still be released as ornamental objects but that's about it (except maybe for DJs)

I don't know what the answer is. I love vinyl, I love CD - I even love my tapes, but I rarely use any of them. You don't need to buy or own music to hear it now. It's all on spotify, myspace, facebook, youtube, lastfm, we7, band websites, blogs....

I think physical stuff is on it's way out, but will never disappear completely.

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I've witnessed this from both the label and record shop perspective.

In both cases I've watched my physical sales dwindle, with a bit of an inevitable sigh.

Shop-wise, from selling 10 copies of each stocked new release back in 2006, it's now 1 or 2 copies. A lot get returned to the distro unsold and I'm hesitant to stock many items offered to me.

Label-wise, there's deffo been a decline. But if you're savvy it can still be done with a bit of flair, imagination and people will be interested enough to buy physical releases. I still at least break even on all my releases, though the turnover has dropped. It's fair to say the label's goals and expectations have shrunk with the market!

Bottom line is that there'd still people who want to buy physical records. That first argument is completely missing the point. You could apply his angle to owt. There's tons of stuff people buy that they don't "need". I mean no one needs a kettle! They can boil water in a pan, can't they?

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