Naphta Wrote:offshore Wrote:Naphta,
It is becoming harder and harder to sell records in general, not just 'leftfield' stuff.
Why?
For the very reasons I stated about MP3s and CDJs.
How many ppl do you know with CDJs or running Traktor on their laptop that they bring to gigs with them? There are lots here! For instance, I know ppl that are playing entire sets from CDJ. Vinyl is rapidly becoming obsolete. In fact, I was at a weekly last night in NYC where a staple DJ in the NYC DnB scene played a released tune off of CD and said "I only liked one tune off of the EP, I'm not going to buy it, I will just download it then burn it and play it on a CDJ." Not to mention the club's set up included 2x Tech 12s and 2x CDJ1000s. How long until it is 1x Tech 12 and 2x CDJs???
Billboard did an article this year and in it, it stated that US dance single sales were down 80%.
Records aren't selling as well as they used to, bottom line.