Joe_Stax
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Another Format?File this one under: two great tastes...that taste terrible together!
I found this at the UK Guardian Unlimited webpage, via one of my fave sites, Retro Thing.
| Quote: | CD sales are falling. Vinyl sales are rising but not for a mass market. So the music industry has come up with a new format in the fight against dwindling revenues.
Rock band Fightstar is releasing its next single on a disc that is vinyl on one side and a CD on the other. Its record company Gut admits the vinyl-disc is a gimmick but hopes it will capture fans' imagination.
"It can only work as a gimmick because we don't actually know how many fans have record players," says Gut's chairman, Guy Holmes.
The band of former Busted frontman Charlie Simpson will release Deathcar next month. The vinyl-disc version will be a limited edition, probably of 3,000 copies, and is likely to sell for £2.99.
The two-in-one disc, which can hold around three minutes of music on the vinyl side and 70 minutes on the CD side, was created by Germany's Optimal Media Production.
Mr Holmes - who is credited with revitalising Tom Jones's career, discovering Right Said Fred and popularising Crazy Frog - says that if the format proves popular his company could use it for other bands. "The music business desperately, desperately needs to invent new formats; the CD is an antique, it's 20 years old." |
It's just wrong. That's all.
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