VINYLS ARE GONNA SAVE THE RECORD INDUSTRY!!!

Did you hear?? Vinyl is making a spectacular comeback that will save the music industry!!!

Puh-lease… or as Sergeant D would say, lettuce be cereal. While the projected numbers for 2011 in the above graphic look nice, vinyls still only account for 1.6% of all music sales. Sure, they’re pretty-looking, they sound good, and it’s great that they’re experiencing a growth in sales, but they still basically amount to souvenirs for most people, artifacts that lay mostly untouched on the shelf while the digital versions (pirated or not) get way more use. CDs are quickly inching towards the same fate.

Let’s just bring it to the cloud already and be done with this. Get your heads out your asses, labels!

-VN