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Article: Compact discs: sizzling growth
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 25, 1986
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NEW YORK Gene Scozzafava has sold his entire collection of 200
Elvis Presley and 30 Barbra Streisand long-playing record albums and
is replacing them with compact audio discs.
"The collection was losing value," he said recently at Tower
Records in Greenwich Village here. He had just plopped down more
than $70 for four Elvis CDs. "I don't think anyone will be buying LPs
in the future."
Before the debut of the saucer-size discs, whose sound quality
and durability are said to surpass those of records and tapes, Joel
Teitelbaum never listened to classical music.
Now he has 85 classical CDs, including all the Beethoven
symphonies, and more than 200 other CDs. He lives for the day the ...