Re: [Marxism] John Mellencamp: The State of the Music Business

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The CD is still around but is taking hits from mp3 and vinyl formats. Much of 
the new crop of vinyl is still problematic in terms of quality control, but 
it's slowly getting better. 
I still prefer the old vinyl. Vinyl from the 1950's and into the 1960's is 
still the best. That said, contemporary vinyl still sounds better than cd.  

CD playback has progressed to the point that a cd player costing two to three 
times that of a contemporary turntable will sound just as good. Players in the 
same price range sound inferior to their vinyl spinning counterparts. 

Greg 

My favorite excerpt from the Mellencamp interview:

The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up 
record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections 
with CDs of albums they had already purchased. They used to call this "planned 
obsolesce" in the car business. Sound quality was supposed to be one of the big 
selling points for CDs but, as we know, it wasn't very good at all. It was just 
another con, a get-rich-quick scheme, a monumental hoax perpetrated on the 
music consuming public.
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