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He f&*^ing threw away his Caruso 78s b/c he didn't think people still listened to vinyl!! ARgghghghg!!!
Interesting article today in The Globe and Mail about the impermanence of archival formats... Except vinyl.
Got me curious. Calling upon the author to explain, we learn:
In Britain, media have been reporting a strange mould affecting audiotape and videotape. Thousands of kilometres of magnetic tape have already been destroyed by the dust-like substance...
It seems, dear music lovers, that nature is rebelling against our inferior audio and video formats! It's almost like some summer blockbuster with that wonder-eyed Zooey Deschanel and what's his name.
Actually professor AlexO, it's very earth friendly. What's truly unfriendly, hostile even, is a format that becomes obsolete in a decade or two and is unceremoniously swept into landfills. A vinyl LP in a paper sleeve that stays in use for 30-60 years is a whole lot more friendly than an aluminum and polycarbonate CD in a PVC jewelbox that someone chucks in a landfill in 7-8 years when it skips, or is ripped to their iPod.
Actually Jerry...What do think the average life span is of the PC or hard drive you download that music onto? 2 - 5 years? Then a huge % of PCs are off to the landfill. Figure tens of millions of PCs in landfills already...and of course PCs are filled with lots of nice toxic stuff. (not to mention monitors)