Article: Compact discs: sizzling growth

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 ...

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