Re: Lies, damned lies and...
To be fair, vinyl was on it's way out anyway. Even before CDs hit in the '90s the shift was toward the small, portable, and recordable compact cassette. Through the '70s the compact cassette was increasingly becoming the standard in automobile head units having beaten its own rival the 8-track and hung around until well into the '00s. You'll notice on that second link that vinyl had a peak in about '78 and while boom boxes had been around a while it was really portable devices like the Sony Walkman which marks the precipitous decline in vinyl. Unfortunately that link doesn't show unit numbers for prerecorded cassettes but if it did I would imagine that '90s valley wouldn't be anywhere near as deep. Each major technology got it's day and vinyl never scored well on the portability meter and in the evolution of audio, there's still a small niche for vinyl and for everything else a binary file, stored or streamed, is good enough at the moment.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
