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dontpanicbobby said:
What the heck is up with all this Streaming? Does no one buy music anymore? My record store idea seems doomed...
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Almost everything here is digital music as well. The only reason companies sell physical records here is for fans to get exclusive pictures and whatever the company seems fit to give out to fans. And of course if you buy a record on its first day out you can also get tickets to a fan sign event where you get to meet and greet the artist/artists.
 
I still have a turntable but it's not hooked up to an amp right now. Heat is bad for tapes and humidity is a killer. I lost a sizable collection on reel to reel to humidity. I never got into cassettes... my luck.
 
I've got a Nickelback CD somewhere, that a student gave me when I was teaching in Inner Mongolia. which was originally purchased second hand in the US. And the only thing I've got that can play it is a nine year old white MacBook.

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Kaizuroge said:
Almost everything here is digital music as well. The only reason companies sell physical records here is for fans to get exclusive pictures and whatever the company seems fit to give out to fans. And of course if you buy a record on its first day out you can also get tickets to a fan sign event where you get to meet and greet the artist/artists.
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Vinyl is making a comeback for purists.
http://cw33.com/2016/09/22/boom-box-is-vinyl-making-a-comeback/
 
zuben el genub said:
Vinyl is making a comeback for purists.
http://cw33.com/2016/09/22/boom-box-is-vinyl-making-a-comeback/
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Doesn't really matter here because companies here don't manufacture Vinyl records. All of it is imported. And imported commodities here don't really sell well. Western Music is just a segment on the radio so selling Vinyls here with only western music artists is just a waste of time. Most of us who listen to western music and like Vinyls order online or trade with other collectors.

Besides there's always an article that says Vinyls making a comeback since the damn 90's it's now 2 decades after the 90's where is the comeback?

Enthusiasts like me and the others will always but Vinyl records because the sound quality is really better. But the thing is if the artists I listen to don't get a vinyl record and it won't in my country.
I will stop buying vinyls.
Last 2014 a record label released their artist's record only through a Sim card and that record made an all kill (means it hit #1 on all 9 music charts here, which is very hard to do even for a physical record)
 
The only places I've come across vinyl records and turntables being used is by MCs and DJs, for hip hop in clubs. Probably because it's very difficult to do live scratching with a CD or MP3.

There's probably still niche interest in these things for listening, there's still interest in 8-tracks stereo as well I think, isn't there. Vacuum tubed radios etc.
 
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mikedt said:
The only places I've come across vinyl records and turntables being used is by MCs and DJs, for hip hop in clubs. Probably because it's very difficult to do live scratching with a CD or MP3.

There's probably still niche interest in these things for listening, there's still interest in 8-tracks stereo as well I think, isn't there. Vacuum tubed radios etc.
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Vinyl is a niche, but it's a pretty large niche. It's one thing that is uniting the old-school audiophiles and the young hipsters. Take a look around the Google at audiophile turntables. Some of them go for many thousands of dollars. Same with tube amps. Tubes are also getting really popular for headphone amps.
 
I doubt they got the funds that quickly. It was just an automated response to you authorizing payment. I'm sure if the funds weren't available, you'd be getting a follow-up text ... or two ... or three ... or four. ;)
 
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