I think the vinyl shortage is contributing a lot to this. Right now if you want a physical copy that's not a CD or by a major act (Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran b

I think the vinyl shortage is contributing a lot to this. Right now if you want a physical copy that's not a CD or by a major act (Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran both released vinyl albums that supposedly took up the majority of the worlds music vinyl production), you're stuck with tapes. And very few people seem to want CDs. I remember only a couple years ago that tapes were the dirt cheap option of getting something physical. At least by me it still is if you're buying in person; most of the punk bands and electronic artists are just recording over old tapes they've found so you can buy em for five to ten bucks a pop at the show.