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Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [EDA] Retailers giving vinyl records another spin [Matt ] Re: [EDA] Re: Borders [Matt ] [EDA] Anyone But You AKA marketing ["Scott Anthony Evans" Subject: Re: [EDA] Retailers giving vinyl records another spin interesting read. Matt On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Mike Connell wrote: > From AP. (BTW, I had noticed some vinyl in stores of late...and more > offerings online) - > Mike > > ___________________________________ > > Retailers giving vinyl records another spin > > PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail > chain. > > This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of > R.E.M.'s latest > release "Accelerate" inadvertently entered the "LP" code instead. Soon > boxes of the big, > vinyl discs showed up at several stores. > > Some sent them back. But a handful put them on the shelves, and 20 LPs sold > the first day. > > The Portland-based company, owned by The Kroger Co., realized the error > might not be so > bad after all. Fred Meyer is now testing vinyl sales at 60 of its stores in > Oregon, > Washington and Alaska. The company says, based on the response so far, it > plans to roll > out vinyl in July in all its stores that sell music. > > Other mainstream retailers are giving vinyl a spin too. Best Buy is testing > sales at > some stores. And online music giant Amazon.com, which has sold vinyl for > most of the 13 > years it has been in business online, created a special vinyl-only section > last fall. > > The best-seller so far at Fred Meyer is The Beatles album "Abbey Road." But > musicians > from the White Stripes and the Foo Fighters to Metallica and Pink Floyd are > selling > well, the company says. > > "It's not just a nostalgia thing," said Melinda Merrill, spokeswoman for > Fred Meyer. > "The response from customers has just been that they like it, they feel > like it has a > better sound." > > According to the Recording Industry Association of America, manufacturers' > shipments of > LPs jumped more than 36 percent from 2006 to 2007 to more than 1.3 million. > Shipments of > CDs dropped more than 17 percent during the same period to 511 million, as > they lost > some ground to digital formats. > > The resurgence of vinyl centers on a long-standing debate over analog > versus digital > sound. Digital recordings capture samples of sound and place them very > close together as > a complete package that sounds nearly identical to continuous sound to many > people. > > Analog recordings on most LPs are continuous, which produces a truer sound > -- though, > paradoxically, some new LP releases are being recorded and mixed digitally > but delivered > analog. > > Some purists also argue that the compression required to allow loudness in > some digital > formats weakens the quality as well. > > But it's not just about the sound. Audiophiles say they also want the > format's overall > experience -- the sensory experience of putting the needle on the record, > the feeling of > side A and side B and the joy of lingering over the liner notes. > > "I think music products should be more than just music," said Isaac Hudson, > a > 28-year-old vinyl fan standing outside one of Portland's larger independent > music > stores. > > The interest seems to be catching on. Turntable sales are picking up, and > the few > remaining record pressers say business is booming. > > But the LP isn't going to muscle out CDs or iPod soon. > > Nearly 450 million CDs were sold last year, versus just under 1 million > LPs, according > to Nielsen SoundScan. Based on the first three months of this year, Nielsen > says vinyl > album sales could reach 1.6 million in 2008. > > "I don't think vinyl is for everyone; it's for the die-hard music > consumer," said Jay > Millar, director of marketing at United Record Pressing, a Nashville based > company that > is the nation's largest record pressing plant. > > Many major artists -- Elvis Costello, the Raconteurs and others -- are > issuing LPs and > encouraging fans to check out their albums on vinyl. On Amazon.com, one of > the > best-selling LPs is Madonna's latest album, "Hard Candy". > > Some artists package vinyl and digital versions of their music together, > including > offers for free digital downloads along with the record. > > "We've definitely had some talks with the major retailers about exclusives > on the > manufacturing end," Millar said of United Record Pressing, which focuses > primarily on > independent recordings. > > An avid music fan himself, Millar says he has moved to vinyl in recent > years. > > "Once I got my first iPod ... I'm looking at my wall of CDs and trying to > justify it," > Millar said. "The things I like -- the artwork, the liner notes, the sound > quality -- it > dawns on me, those are things I like better on vinyl." He welcomed back the > pops and > clicks, even some of the scratches. > > "I like that fact that it's imperfect in a lot of ways, live music is > imperfect too," > Millar said. > > Independent music stores, which have been the primary source of LPs in > recent years, say > many fans never left the medium. > > "People have been buying vinyl all along," said Cathy Hagen, manager at 2nd > Avenue > Records in Portland. "There was a fairly good supply from independent > labels on vinyl > all these years. As far as a resurgence, the major labels are just pressing > more now." > > In this game, big retailers aren't necessarily competing head to head with > independent > sellers' regular clientele of nostalgic baby boomers, independent label > fans and > turntable DJs. > > "I cannot see that Best Buy or Fred Meyer would order the same things we > would," Hagen > said. "They aren't going to be ordering the reggae, funk, punk or > industrial music." > - -- 'Life Is What Happens To You While You're Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:33:53 -0400 From: Matt Subject: Re: [EDA] Nashville Star videos I don't see the clip there Matt On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Scott Anthony Evans wrote: > http://idolstartv.com/modules.php?name=Videos > > Watch Jewel play guitar to the group performance, and watch her almost > cry over having to eliminate someone. > > -- > Scott Anthony Evans > scott@scottanthony.org > http://www.scottanthony.org > - -- 'Life Is What Happens To You While You're Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:26:04 -0400 From: Matt Subject: Re: [EDA] Re: Borders It would be nice if all these clips could be compiled for a fan made dvd to trade. Matt On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Josie Sianez wrote: > Hey, have ya'll seen this yet? http://www.bordersmedia.com/home.asp. Some > videos of Jewel from Borders Live. I'm loving the influx of Jewel; she's > everywhere! > > : ) Josie > VegAngel > > > - -- 'Life Is What Happens To You While You're Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:48:26 -0400 From: "Scott Anthony Evans" Subject: [EDA] Anyone But You AKA marketing The more I see "Anyone But You" on things like Nissan Live Sets and Leno, the more I think she should be selling this song in concert instead of "Who Will Save Your Soul" and "Standing Still." Everyone always goes crazy for it! I get what she's maybe trying to do by packaging her greatest hits, but she's got golden stuff on this new album that will really make people buy it, and the way to sell it is to introduce it and things like "Til It Feels Like Cheating" by saying they're on her new album. No one in Brad Paisley's audience cares about "Standing Still" and "Hands," but I'll BET you they'd fall in love with "Anyone But You." I did. Coincidentally, I don't like the album version still. I think it's too weak. Maybe it's just me. - -- Scott Anthony Evans scott@scottanthony.org http://www.scottanthony.org ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V12 #367 ****************************