Vinyl

• Weekly survey: When was the last time you bought a compact disc?

  It's only a matter of time before the compact disc, once the driver of the recorded music industry, fades to become a niche format. How many CDs have you purchased recently?

  Entertainment

  Jun 28
• Lorde adds another death blow to the compact disc

  CD sales continue to crater at a pace worthy of an extinction-level asteroid. Lorde's new album apparently seeks to hasten their demise.

  Entertainment

  Jun 27
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• A pandemic bright spot: Sales of vinyl records have exploded in Canada

  If you thought that we'd reached peak vinyl and that Canadians' renewed love affair with record had come to an end, you might want to reexamine those assumptons.

  Entertainment

  May 16
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• Weekly survey: When was the last time you bought a CD?

  Remember the days when we used to travel through space and time to purchases our music on pieces of plastic? When was the last time you did that?

  Entertainment

  Mar 22
• Tired of collecting normal vinyl records? Alan Cross has some abnormal options for you

  Once you've collected all the LPs and 7-inch singles worth having, it's time to dispense with the ordinary and get really, really weird.

  Entertainment

  Mar 14
• Weekly survey: How much are you willing to pay for that vinyl record you MUST own?

  Record collecting can be a dangerously expensive obsession. How dangerous are you willing to be for that ONE record you absolutely need to own?

  Environment

  Feb 9
• The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 907: Digital Debris part 2: Album artwork

  As we transition from buying pieces of plastic to consuming music as zeroes and ones, the entire music experience is changing. What will become of album artwork?

  Entertainment

  Jan 29
• The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 907: Digital Debris part 1: B-sides and bonus tracks

  The world of digital music is truly wondrous. But have you stopped to think about what we're looking in our transition from physical media to a virtual one?

  Entertainment

  Jan 22
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• Weekly survey: Are still into vinyl? Were you ever?

  There's evidence that Canadians' love affair with vinyl is waning. Is it?

  Entertainment

  Sep 14, 2020
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• Alan Cross: The vinyl resurrection is in trouble. Is it over for LPs? For Canadians, it might be

  Has COVID-19 burst the vinyl bubble? It's starting to look like it.

  Commentary

  Aug 30, 2020