music formats

[johncomic]

I just read an article about how the CD is dying thanx to digital downloads, and it was also going on about how vinyl is making a comeback. Ostensibly this is on account of vinyl's superior sound quality.

Speaking as one who grew up on vinyl and remembers its scratches and crackles and skips... as one who was there when the CD came in, and we compared vinyl and CD versions side by side and were blown away by the CD's vastly superior sound quality [e.g., Queensrÿche's Operation:mindcrime -- listen to the vinyl and CD back to back, no comparison!]... I gotta say WTF??!!??

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[johncomic.livejournal.com]

Well, online credibility is never necessarily a shoo-in with the middlemen, it's more of a potentiality...

I can believe that the syndicates feel that their audience for hardcopy newspaper strips and the audience for XKCD don't overlap much. They could be mistaken, but I can see them seeing it that way. XKCD never struck me as old-school mainstream humour.

[ginsu.livejournal.com]

According to Wired, it was getting 60+ million page views per month a year and a half ago.

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/news/2007/11/xkcd

That's a hell of a niche, my friend. I am reminded of how all the syndicates, but one, looked at Dilbert and said "Nah, too technical and specialized" and stamped it REJECT.