If I had a choice (and the industry seems to be putting out feelers), I'd buy the vinyl. Not that I'm crazy about digital recordings on an analog LP. People have their grails- mine would be, let's say, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. As happy as I was to get a recording of it, how much more it might have been. Double LP, gatefold cover, big pictures and liner notes that open and rest on your lap as you listen to the record from start to finish. All these great scores from the 40's. 50's, 60's. They were made for analog repro but everyone's happy with digital, but I think digital is going to go the way of 8 Tracks.
Pop music for download. Pop music for your mobile device. Albums for music lovers, that's all.
Say, wasn't Disney involved somehow with last year's TRON vinyl release? On record day it sold out immediately along with a re-issues of T-Rex and the soundtrack to Moonrise Kingdom by Mothersbaugh. There were like four different versions, I feel lucky having one. Soundtracks being made today are either for people who never got rid of their vinyl collection (like me) or for the curious, the casual record buyer and usually for twice the money you'd have to shell out for a CD, but nobody seems to mind.
You can get just the song you want for nickels and dimes. And when it's run its course, you can delete it.
But vinyl, contrary to popular belief, is forever. It may never reign supreme like it once did way back in the 60's and 70's, but sometimes these things are cyclical and the industry seems like it looking to tap into a "new" market, which is the 20 somethings of today. I swear, if Intrada, or Screen Archives started releasing limited vinyl editions of their back catalog, I'd chuck my CDs out, without thinking twice.
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