Quote Originally Posted by deafmosaic
seriously though, the idea is to create a record that is more than just a piece of petrolium. ppl but the records because they want to hold a physical piece of the artist in their hands. this is why it is good to do concept records with full artwork covers etc and really concentrate on marketing, but at the same time it is so expensive to put art on your records and keep concepts intact that nowadays it becomes a vicious cycle...
maybe thats still the case with some people, but that is deffinatly dieing.

it is obvious to see that the future is in digital dowloads of some sort. if it isn't obvious to you maybe you will be one of those that gets left behind in all the shit. ;)