Velanche,
The article does point out, though, that only the Dance music
section of the Virgin Megastore they mention has a lot of singles in
stock, presumably mostly on vinyl. Its hardly surprising that most
members of this list buy mostly singles and mostly vinyl, since
that is the way dance music is produced: it is dj orientated. So
pretty much everybody who wants to buy dance music has to buy
the vinyl singles like the djs do, just as has been going on since
the days of Reggae. It'll only stop when people stop djing with
vinyl... which isn't going to happen soon, if ever. We'll only start
buying more albums and less singles when dance music becomes
less dj orientated, because the nature of djing requires that the dj
select particular tracks, rather than albums, to play, which makes
the product output singles orientated. since dance music
becoming less dj orientated is rather a contradiction in terms, the
kinds of speculations made in this article are completely irrelevant
to us.
Well that's what i think anyways....
On 7 Mar 2002, at 13:21, Velanche Stewart wrote:
Date sent: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 13:21:15 -0800
From: Velanche Stewart <vstewart@calpoly.edu>
Send reply to: velanche@kcpr.org
Organization: Cal Poly State University
To: Acid Jazz List <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Subject: Whatever happened to the single? (Huh?)
>
> I was reading an article on CNN's web site, and I'm rather bemused
> considering that I've bought more singles in the last several years
> than I've done albums. It's an interesting take, though, from a U.S.
> consumer's perspective...and that of the industries.
>
> The articles is at
> http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/07/wkd.death.of.the.single.ap
> /index.html.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> V.
>
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