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Article: REQUIEM FOR THE RECORD WILL COMPACT DISCS ECLIPSE BLACK-VINYL RECORDS?(Personal)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 12, 1991
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Byline: FRANK LOVECE
AS A CULTURE we worship the new.
So in 1983, when Philips, the Dutch electronics giant, and Sony jointly introduced the compact disc, or CD, to America, we had the new handed to us, literally, on a silver platter.
Eight short years later those shiny aluminum discs have all but made obsolete the familiar black-vinyl records with which we grew up.
Even that sentence is telling: We have to call them "black- vinyl" or "analog" records (as opposed to "digital" CDs); saying simply "records" can draw a blank stare from the teen-ager behind the music counter.
Black-vinyl record albums accounted for a piddling 4 ...