Vinyl LPs appear to be the only segment of the physical music business that is growing. I suspect music fans prefer the tactility and size of the LP format.

This blog post examines some techniques used to keep listeners from taping albums on wax.

John Darnielle listens to an old Minneapolis punk album and laments the commodification of domain space of spammers.

There's nothing really new here about how hipsters thing vinyl sounds better than CDs, but it provides a nice historical context for the idea that the CD is a dying format.

I missed this anniversary, but it's worth linking to this commemorative story.

Nick Carr discusses _Exile on Main Street_ at length and alludes to Gang of Four in his erudite rebuttal to David Weinberger's contention that the "track" is the natural unit of music.

looks like the best record store has a website.