It's Alive! Vinyl Makes a Comeback

[peregrine9]

The Wall Street Journal
January 27, 2012
It's Alive! Vinyl Makes a Comeback

The digital revolution was supposed to do away with a lot of fusty old relics. First compact discs took their toll on the long-playing (and long-played) vinyl record; then iPods and digital downloads began doing the same to CDs. But long after the eulogies had been delivered, the vinyl LP has been revived.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204573704577184973290800632.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

[Greg]

There are so many quotes from that article to pass along here, but this is one of my favorites:

Vinyl is decidedly inconvenient, which is the very reason it appeals. To play records, you have to be relatively engaged in the activity. The disc has to be taken off the shelf and out of its sleeve. It has to be placed on the platter. The needle has to be lowered just so. How different that is from the way we've been encouraged to consume music—as a sort of automated aural wallpaper best achieved by a digital playlist in shuffle mode. Vinyl demands—and encourages—more attention.