correction: vinyl sales are not plummating everywhere, in fact, rock singles sell more on vinyl than they do on cds.

there are other genres like bassline house and grime that are selling by the bucketload.

yeah people might be going to techno nights and having a wicked time, but people dont need to buy the vinyls anymore, i stopped buying the vast quantites of techno vinyl because it serves no function. i dont dj out and i will rarely sit down and think, oooh, i'd love to listen to that solid kick drum for 6 mins. there are some exceptions tho...people like vogel, speedy j, have been incorporating electronica sounds into their techno, which i find much more musically pleasing, so i will still continue to listen to these, but then i'd prefer them as cds.

say you have a techno 12 that sold 2000 copies, i wonder how many of those sold are to djs that regurlarly play out. the top 100 djs get mailed all the latest vinyls anyway. there was a time that people thought they might be the next big dj, then it shifted to "you have to have a track released before you are considered" so it seems the trend has shifted again and ultimately polluted the scene with lots of labels and half baked/copied techno.

i think the future of music is retrograding to the past times and is going to become free to all. i get to hear lots of new music thru forums and net labels, why pay when there is interesting music available for free?