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"Arny Krueger" wrote:

Me:
Good analogy. In my hypothetical situation, the mosaic artist has his
own store where he sells mosaics based on oil paintings that he hides
in his basement. Not only that, the oil paintings were commissioned as
templates for his mosaics. The artist adds details and effects not
found in the template painting. His customers have a cultural bias
towards tiles.

The vinyl equivalent of this would be LP's that were produced from the onset
only for distribution as LP's, with no hopes of future improvements in
media. I don't believe that this has ever been the case, except for perhaps
some tiny, short-run boutique recordings.

I've never seen an LP that wasn't meant for distribution as other than
an LP, unless you count those melted lamp shade things in gift shops
years ago. I assumed those were returns, not special pressings.

I suppose we all want something better to hope for.

Stephen