Rant: that 1998 article about CDs killing vinyl aged like milk at my record shop

I work at a used record store in Austin and we literally sell 8 times more vinyl than CDs now. Back in 1998 some tech rag said digital discs would make records obsolete within 5 years. I still have the magazine clipping pinned behind the register as a joke. Last week a 19 year old came in asking if we had any original pressings of Dark Side of the Moon, not a CD, not a download. Anyone else's local shop seeing this same flip in the last couple years?

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spencer_wood8d ago

Original pressings of Dark Side" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. No shade, but that album is one of the most pressed records in history, so "original" really just means "old enough to have some crackle." Still, you're right that the flip is real. My shop's CD bin is basically a museum piece at this point, and the kids coming in want the physical weight of a record, not the convenience of a disc. The 1998 article got the death part right, it just picked the wrong format to die.