the thing is the only reason mp3 came about was not due to its purity in sound thats for sure, it came about becuase of the size of storage around at the time and the internet speeds. it was popular and surfaced when 40 gig hard drives were considered the nuts and bt isdn 128 was the fastests residential conection. now computers rarely ship with less than 120gig, ipods can be bought in 60gig and the average residential connection is between 1mbit - 4mbit, unless you live in sweden of course, and if thats the case you can benefit from residential connections ranging anywhere between 8mbit - 28mbit. I give mp3's 5 more years max. the thing i love about the vinyl apart from its sound is the availabilty to keep piracy down to the minimum thus ensuring i get paid in full for my work....if thats a crime not to want the digital age then so be it. But all you people who dont depend on selling records to put food on the table have to think for a second, how would you feel at the end of a long hard week the boss turned round and said i know ya done sixty hours but heres the money for 15 of those? what iam trying to say is id like to get paid for what i do, the current state of technology + attitude + internet wont allow that, the piracy is too ripe to allow it, thats where vinyl and the record deck works for me because it keeps piracy to its utmost lowest, is it selfish to have this attitude? no i dont think so...