Is the LP format dying? (Page 2 of 3)

This 10" is cool. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ms2171/53912818/

When the apocalypse comes and technolgoy fails us and the world is in chaos! I still be able to listen to Hex Enduction Hour by The Fall

but nowadays the albums are not that `packed`anymore.

I find it lame most of the LP`s are double albums now (and even more expensive), but in the end they are double 12"s, good for the quality and those deejays , bad for Listeners if they have to change the records after 2 or 3 tracks. I have no problem if the sound it is bit lower than on a `super sound single` - if the record has a good cut it works on a normal sound system.

its an unwritten law from heaven that LPs should be on vinyl

That's ghetto dude.

10"s everytime. Not enough around!

Also listening to an album it pretty much has to be vinyl lp. The album has to have two sides, irrespective of how good or shit it sounds

Yep same costs as a 12" here also
.. as there's not that much demand .. they stay expensive to make .. so there's not that much done ... etc
But 7" stay expensive to make too ..

I think LPs are the best format for soundtracks, and generally LPs are good to listen to at home too.

But it sucks when you only have a track on an LP and you want to play it out- but it sounds too light/shit.

Also sucks a situation like Blush - Out of this world where you have a whole LP of really bad music except on track (Lift Off), why could they not just press lift off on both sides and leave out all the other shit?

i'm the same as this - i hate LPs. i like to have all my music on my computer in addition to my physical collection, and it's just so much of a royal pain in the ass to record LPs to the computer (when compared with the album on a CD, at least).

with a CD, i put it in the drive in my computer and have it on there in a few clicks. and of course, there's the whole listening to the album uninterrupted aspect that you mentioned.

i'd only buy the LP if that was the only format that the album was available on.

still like buying singles on vinyl though.

For me, too, MP3 is an inspiration for what to buy on vinyl. It is only when I have the vinyl that I feel I actually own the tracks.

The intimacy of a vinyl LP playing softly late in the evening when it is quiet around me is just pure luxury.

one thing about the so called intimacy of vinyl, i dunno if a format is more intimate than the other, but my record players are dead silent, and my computer is really noisy and not really suitable for all types of listening. So i hope we dont all got to listen to music on humming, whirring machines in the future.