"MiNE 109" wrote in message

In article ,
"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.

Irrelevant since the point was that the same musical performances
distributed on LPs were at various times distributed as:

(1) 45's
(2) Open reel tapes
(3) 8 track tapes
(4) cassette tapes
(5) CDs
(6) DVDs
(7) Radio broadcasts
(8) TV broadcasts
(9) Laserdiscs

and that this was often known at the time the performance was recorded.

I suppose we all want something better to hope for.

Yes, like a relevant thoughtful answer from you Stephen.

You've been hanging out with people like Ludovic too much, Stephen.