Vanishing Vinyl
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There’s a campaign going on among some record store owners to eliminate the long-playing record. And they may succeed, by denying space to LPs in order to make more room for compact discs.
Item: CDs retail for twice an LP’s price; therefore dollars spent on CDs give the store owners more income per square foot.
Item: Because CDs take up less space, stores can carry more titles.
What the store owners hope to do, I believe, is to discourage record makers from making LPs.
Having collected LPs since the early 1950s and as owner of a compact disc player and a couple of hundred CDs, I think I am speaking for the serious record buyer in deploring this situation.
CRANE JACKSON
Los Angeles
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