When I see people in my age group (20's and 30's) in music shops, usually I can tell the difference between those who buy vinyl and cd's.
me too and I'm older than you. The people buying LPs are in the LP section, and those buying CDs are in the CD section.
And I can tell that without even judging them based soley on what they purchase and/or what they listen to.
CD buying people are people who listen to mainstream pop/rock music and only buy what's on radio and listen to Lady Gaga and Nickelback and rely on top 40 radio to dictate to them what is hot this month, the people I run into in the vinyl section seem to be more intellectual types who are open to checking out new things and are generally cooler to strike up conversations with.
Just my own opinion, but what you just described is not necessarily "
intellectual types" but rather music snobs (based on my own experiences with such people). If they were talking about movies,
'noir' would be far more interesting and highbrow than the
'blockbuster' type of movies that the dregs whisk off to see.
As far as being "
more open to checking out new things", perhaps as long as those new things are "
indie" bands, but if the artist in question gets airtime on
any sort of non-underground radio station (classic rock, hard rock, top 40, easy listening, etc), then no, not the least bit "
open" to anything of that nature, which leads me back to my comment about music snobs. perhaps they seem open to you as you have some of the same mindset. Perhaps not.
I'm only guessing ... and again... I'm only speaking from my own personal experiences in local music stores over the years, something which could be completely different from your own experiences.
"Vinyl sucks" is something the industry brainwashed people into believing so you could repurchase everything you already owned on CD.
I beg to differ and having that mindset about CDs seems to be a very narrow-minded way of looking at it.
You cannot compare it to VHS tapes. That comparison is better saved for cassette tapes and 8-tracks, as like VHS, they are now dead formats.
First, yes I can compare the two because VHS for the most part is an out of date yet the medium is still used, just as vinyl is. Second, VHS is not dead, but I would be a fool to not acknowledge that it's on it's last legs. People
can and
still do videotape movies and shows on TV, make home movies, etc for future playback. Something you can
NOT do with vinyl... with that, you buy it and it's that way forever. So, from
that perspective, even though both are out of date, VHS (to this day) is still more versatile than vinyl is in their respective industries.
Vinyl is still around as a niche format, people see worth in it
no arguement there, it truly is a niche format/market. By the very definition, it is a very very small market for a select few who choose to use it. Again, I'm not attacking you or anyone else who enjoys LPs. I don't understand why most listen to music this way other than some that do it for nostalgia purposes, and others that ammassed large collections of vinyl over the years and refuse to update anything to current times. For listening purposes though... hey, it's like I said in a previous post, some enjoy listening to what I (and many others) consider to be an inferior format. For those that like it, more power to ya.
