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"David Looser" wrote:

"MiNe 109" wrote

*People* abandoned the medium because they couldn't find them in stores.
This happened quickly in the US.

Sorry, I don't buy that. Whilst record company policies might have slightly
hastened the decline of the LP, it can hardly have been the principal reason
for the decline of LP sales. There have been many examples of large
companies losing a lot of money trying to force the public into buying
something they don't want or having the public banging on the doors
demanding a product that a company is reluctant to sell. Had the public
wanted to buy LPs rather than CDs that exactly what they would have done.

I'm glad you accept record company policies may have hastened the
decline. I'm also willing to entertain the possibility that lps had
already lost the battle to the cassette well before cd.

A while back I looked at media sales numbers up to the early nineties
and found lp hung on longer in the UK than the US, which could explain
our different views. Here it was practically overnight that lps
disappeared.

I had given up on classical lps about when cd came along because of
pressing quality problems, so I was excited about the new product.

Stephen