Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (03/17/87)
Really-From: ucscc!drseuss@ucscb.ucsc.edu (Horton) >Really-From: think!haddock!chrisb (Chris Baxley) > Someone told me he had heard a rumor that within the >next few years the major labels are planning to phase out >all vinyl releases in favor of CD's [C'Disease?], which could >conceivably widen the gap between underground and above-ground >music (for lack of better terms). Seems off-hand that this would close the gap between under- and above- ground music, since CD technology is not widely available for everyone (at least because of price). What is probably likely to happen, is that instead of looking for new bands on vinyl, you're going to be seeing them on cassettes. And this is more likely to spur the movement of underground bands, since it's easier to record your own tape, than it is to press your own vinyl album. Until CD players get as durable and as standardized as cassette players do, don't look for exclusive CD releases...and by the time that happens CD recordings will be as "easy" to make as vinyl ones. "Baby don't you go, don't you go to Goleta" - Camper Van Beethoven David