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Re: profiteering, fascism.....and tortured reasoning.

Now that we've all grown up, and realized that marketing men (and the people they work for) aren't necessarily the first people from whom to expect impartiality and balance, a lot of us have realized that the old aphorism "you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" is actually a truism.

The market decided, huh? That's not how I remember it going down (in the 90's), not at all.

The way I remember it, an all too pliant public, hypnotized by whizz-bangery, allowed a de-facto cartel to fleece them for an (infamously) overpriced product, from which very large profits (also infamously) very little went to many of the actual performers of the recordings on that product.

I'm not here to slag CD off per se, but I'm rather less sanguine about the availability, past present and future, of decent quality, affordable vinyl than a surprising number of the 'vinyl asylum' inmates appear to be,

The way I see it, some, er, 'positivity' about the medium (rather than an an admixture of fatalism and elitism) might even see the industry come regard it as a viable proposition again, particularly given the decline in CD sales they've been wringing their hands about for the last 5 years or more.


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