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Implications of vinyl on musical trends?

I’ve been super enamored with vinyl since making the leap from digital.  My mom gave me her old records; mother-in-law gave us hers; aunts and uncles have offered theirs, etc.  Throughout my life it seems vinyl was always around.  Maybe it was tucked away in a closet, but it was there—albeit a bit dustier during the 1990s.  As a result of its ubiquitous nature, it logically influenced musical trends in a similar hand-me-down sort of way (e.g. blues to Zeppelin et al).

I’ve watched over the years as rock & roll struggled and was always a bit vexed by it.  I generally chalked it up to aging; but, it struck me that maybe the decline of vinyl directly contributed to the decline of rock & roll.  Could it be that the decline of vinyl caused some sort of musical schism?  Or, maybe the “decline” was simply another evolution (though to what, I cannot say)?  I find it interesting that the resurgence of vinyl seems to correlate with a younger rock movement (e.g. Greta Van Fleet).  Nothing deep, profound, or particularly meaningful…just something I was thinking about on a random Saturday.

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If anything it is vinyl that limits music, to about 20 minutes a side. Since the onset of CDs albums have become longer resulting in a lot of three sided albums when converted to analog. 

The problem with todays music is that there is so much garbage you have to wade through. In the old days you had to be reasonably talented to get a record contract. Now, anybody who thinks they can sing and has a computer can produce an album including the cover and release it as a file or even a CD. The computer can play all the instruments. There is still some great music being made in all genres. You just have to wade through all the trash to get to it. I use to buy records just because I liked the cover. The cover for Transatlantisim got me into Death Cab and the three legged dog got me into Alice.  It is a big mistake to do that now.

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