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Jim wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:49:38 GMT, David wrote:

CD's are popular because they don't get scratched.

What planet are you on? CDs are *easily* damaged by a scratch - in
fact you can make a CD unplayable by a single scratch.

You can polish a CD back to life, but an LP was GONE.

How old are you? Back in the vinyl days, you just didn't loan out
your records unless it was somebody you really trusted, because
some slob could trash the LP at the drop of the needle.

And with the end of vinyl, a lot of record stores, (usually specialized
in classical music) are gone, because they depended on replacement
sales of people's favorite records. That's a lot of the problem with
the records business, they took the sales level from the period when
people were replacing their vinyl with CDs as a permanent trend instead
of a temporary peak. With fast growth come the bean counters and with
bean counters comes the death of an industry.

Mark Zenier Washington State resident