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drastically outselling physical CDs in an age of digital download is not really a claim to fame. I'm sure a lot more buggy whips and buggies are sold than steam
by fsckboy 4y ago
drastically outselling physical CDs in an age of digital download is not really a claim to fame. I'm sure a lot more buggy whips and buggies are sold than steam cars.
- Syonyk 4y agoIf it were solely due to CD sales dropping, you'd have a point. But vinyl is selling radically more, year over year, every year since 2006. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_revival#/media/File:US_vinyl_sales_1995-2020.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_revival#/media/File:US_v... To finish the graph out, 2021 was 41.7M and 2022 is 43.5M. You can write it off however you want, but to dismiss it as irrelevant is a good way to miss what's going on in the world.
- fsckboy 4y agoI wasn't writing off vinyl (and I've seen the news that it's increasing), I was just saying that comparing it to CDs was failing to land a punch. And my "buggy whips/steam cars" analogy was spot on. ever notice how after a destructive tornado they say "it looks like a bomb went off", and after a bomb goes off they say "it's like a tornado blew through here". Not the same situation as the CDs, but the same in that my brain says "wait a minute..." and if you want to impress the listener, you don't want them thinking "now holup"