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including at least one title that will probably be exclusive on vinyl and another one that will be greatly expanded from what it once was.
Well, as someone who doesn't own a turntable (and isn't looking to buy one) this kinda sucks. Granted, I don't know what any of these titles are so for all I know I might not be interested in picking them up in any format but making things exclusive to vinyl is a bit limiting I think. Others will probably disagree, though.
Why would it suck? The expanded album will come out after the CD is released. The exclusive is just coming out on vinyl first and then later on CD.
Ah, ok.
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NPR just had an article on the resurgence of vinyl where they reported that vinyl sales currently made up 3.5% of all music sales and that 6.5 million records were sold in the "first part of 2014." (http://www.npr.org/2014/11/29/367420344/vinyl-once-thought-dead-makes-a-comeback-in-the-digital-age)
One person is quoted as saying they've turned to purchasing records as reaction to the "immediacy" of how music is now consumed through streaming services, single song purchases on iTunes, etc., and the LP kind of forces the listener to enjoy an album as one piece. I do agree with that view, but I do that with my CDs already. To some extent I do think that streaming services and iTunes et al have cheapened the value of music and have taken away the experience of enjoying albums (and their artwork and liner notes) as whole pieces. I'd be surprised if this uptick in sales is permanent (I think vinyl will always be around, though); the people I know who do purchase vinyl do so because it's either a novelty or because it's simply fashionable to do so right now. I'm glad for those who have always loved vinyl, though--no doubt this is all good news for them.
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LP does not sound better, a quaint myth at best.
This would be a niche within a niche within a niche market.
If they often press 3000 limited edition CD's and often do not sell them all how many LP can be sold? Maybe 500?
Why anyone wants a music format that chops the album up into pieces and cannot be taken anywhere is hard to fathom.
The resurgence of LP is pretty overstated, since it was almost non-existent, it does not really take much to qualify as 'resurgence'. The amount sold is still a tiny / tiny fraction of sold music.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/nov/27/vinyls-making-a-comeback-dont-believe-the-hype
That article hit the nail on the head.
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Although I'm not nuts about things being reissued exclusively to vinyl, I'd be far better with it if each copy purchased came with its own download link. I don't have room in my already overcrowded life for a turntable and the need to spend my own time transferring soundtracks to digital in order to take them on the go. Much as I lamented it twenty years ago, I did my grieving for vinyl and am now getting prepared to do my grieving for CD. Don't make me go back there! 
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"you know I was just having fun" = jealousy
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This whole "vinyl comeback" thing is a combination fanboy/one-percenter phenomenon.
Take a look at the AcousticSounds.com website and pore through their recent vinyl re-presses: Old RCA Victor classical, Tony Bennett, The Doors, Norah Jones for chrissakes. I'd certainly go for the classical and The Doors if I had a stockbroker/surgeon level of income, too.
Nevertheless, as a member of the bottom one-percent, I have indulged in a very few Mondo vinyl releases because the imagination shown for those re-presses fulfills the sort of creative, chance-taking packaging that music releasing companies just couldn't afford to risk back in the old days.
And notice I lauded the "chance-taking packaging" instead of the sound. I couldn't afford the kind of vinyl setup that would tell me whether these LP's sound all that great or not.
To be frank, I fell in love with movie music while listening to LP's, and these boutique vinyl release setups have really got me by the balls. I couldn't resist Mondo's Music from 2001: A Space Odyssey, because the idea of putting a rejected Alex North score on LP--especially this one--and packaging it in a cool way, which they undeniably achieved, just hits my personal sweet spot for cool media items that should have been, but were never allowed to exist.
It makes it seem as if I entered the Interstellar wormhole and came out in a universe where the record companies got the vinyl pressings of movie scores perfect-for-all-eternity on the first try.
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These are all being remastered specifically for LP.
What does that mean?
Mastering considerations for LPs are different than that for CDs, so it would not be appropriate to simply take the CD master and use it to create an LP master.
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"you know I was just having fun" = jealousy
We knew you'd be here. Thanks for being ever predictable. You may now go back in your little crevice. Jealousy? Why? If we wanted to play this game we'd play this game. Just as others will or won't.
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