Re: CCU now vinyl acqusition

["Aaron 'Bishop' Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 12:45 AM 3/21/2002, A. Joseph Ross wrote:
>On 20 Mar 2002 at 10:09, Aaron [Bishop] Read wrote:
>
> > If you guys aren't getting vinyl you're not trying at all....virtually all
> > the college stations around Boston get vinyl by the truckload usually.
> > The urban/rap/hiphop genres are flooded with it, as is techno &
> > electronica.   To a lesser degree you see a fair amount of ska on vinyl,
> > too.  At WBRS we got more vinyl than CD's, although admittedly most of our
> > new stuff comes in as CD's.   Ditto for WTBU and WMFO.
>
>Yes, I heard a couple of years ago at WMUA that a lot of stuff is still 
>coming out on vinyl.
>What I don't understand is why.  There must be some reason some musical 
>publishers think
>there's an advantage to vinyl.

There is a big advantage in the world of club-style DJing...vinyl's much 
better for scratching and mixing on the fly.  No surprise that the majority 
of vinyl comes out in genres popular with that crowd.


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