I think for at least another decade it’s going to be one of those stupid things that we people do no matter how silly or expensive it is. We all complain about $7 soda and $10 bucket of popcorn but for 2.5 hours of a communal experience with story telling and sfx I don’t see it dying in the super immediate. Book stores and vinyl shops are still around (some doing very well) so it’s eventually going to be a niche market, home theaters are great but
A. Not everyone has them
B. Some people have them but still want to get out the house and enjoy a bigger screen, bigger sound, and still have room to complain about a small soda being $7
Yes yo sure right about vinyl.
A Pressing Issue: How ‘the vinyl revival’ has caught out the music industry during the pandemic – SuperDeluxeEdition
Vinyl pressing plants are at full capacity right now. For people looking for an investment vinyl pressing plants is a good one.
The plants are backed up right now..still playing catchup..vinyl outsold CD for the first time since like 1987. The bigger artists are first in line to so smaller artists gotta wait even longer .
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FEATURES 13 APR 2021
[paste:font size="6"]A Pressing Issue: How ‘the vinyl revival’ has caught out the music industry during the pandemic
SDE investigates manufacturing delays[/paste:font]
BY JOHN EARLS
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Release dates going back and back. Box sets getting postponed by a year. Physical albums arriving months after their digital release. Rumours of pressing plant meltdowns… COVID-19 was bound to have an effect on the release of albums. But the pandemic has brought home a crisis in the music industry, and that is, quite simply, the fact that
there aren’t enough pressing plants to cope with the demand for vinyl.
On the surface, the figures for the so-called vinyl revival are healthy: even with the high street shut for most of the year, vinyl sales in the UK rose by nearly 10 percent to 4.8 million in 2020. It’s the 13th consecutive year that vinyl sales have risen. Sales of turntables grew too, as music fans who had previously resisted the headlines about ‘The Vinyl Revival’ finally succumbed and began rediscovering love for the black stuff.
Despite the rise in popularity, there has been no serious initiative, since vinyl sales picked up, to increase vinyl production. No new pressing plants of any significant size built in the past decade, coupled with an ever-increasing rise in sales, means a crisis point has been reached.
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