"malc" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote in message
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Don't hold me to these figures but I believe the recent UK sales have
been along the following lines:

2001 - £178,000 (approx)

2005 - over a £million!


What a load of rubbish! I like the way you can just pluck a figure from
the air and qualify it by saying not to hold you to it. Statistics say
whatever you want them to.
It also depends on whether that was one shop, one chain of shops, one
area, across the UK or world.


I saw this yesterday on the BBC 10 o'clock news. There were young kids
auditioning 7" singles on free to use turntables in some large record shop
somewhere and I believe the figures were for total UK sales of new 7"
singles.

What was interesting was the young lad on the TV prog said what he like
about the singles was the physical aspect of having something to see and
hold! (As opposed to the 'virtual music' of the iPods!) PG also said
summat like playing a record involved the visual sense and watching the
record play was an important part of the experience!!

Was he taking any drugs at the time as a "young lad" would not say that !

Well, this lad looked under 18 and was on national telly talking in a public
shop in broad daylight so I doubt if he was on drugs. In fact there were
both young lads and ladies talking about why they like vinyl.

Young people don't appreciate records as they have been brought up on CD
and MP3, so not many of them will have experience of records. They would
tend to class them as old peoples things - making them uncool to be
associated with.

But if they won't know any old people with vinyl the association will be
broken eventually. My brother (28) is indifferent to vinyl whereas my sister
wanted a turntable for her 21st birthday this year. Things go round in
circles and currently vinyl is becoming cool again.

Also, I think that part of it has to be that people are geting fed up of
loosing most of their music collection every time their iPod is stolen.
Who's going to mug someone for a 7"?

Phil