Will it disappear one day....???
Vinyl???
I tend to tread it like this:
Any music which was brought out on vinly in the first place I would like to own on vinyl as you will not get that remastered digital sound which was not there originally.
Now some response to some of you:
Mikeh "Someday we won't be able to play records as other tech. will completely eliminate the turntable".............Well perhaps but I think it will be more like this: It will still be around, but it will get more and more expansive, so most folks would just go for the cd rather than the old LP.
Think of it like this: How do people listen to music these days?, what format?, what kind of machine/player? ect. The younger ones among us download on the internet, for them having the cover of the cd is not really an issue as the music may be all what matters. Then there are the people who buy cds and listen to them on their pc. or homestereo our car. The hippest among us may even use an Ipod. You see all these things do the same thing----being able to listen to music-----but it does it in a different way, and has a different feel to it as well [you can easily skip tracks on a cd player, you may even want to programme the thing, try that with a turntable and an LP....]
I think manufactorers will try to please all of us as they can make money with it, but yes you may have to pay a lot more for your LP's and turntable, also you will get less choise as which model turntable you may like.
Now to A Reel Person who wrote about artwork and "gatefolds"
Yes this is so true, the artwork on cds does not really match the kind of thing people were going for on the old LP's but perhaps all of this has to do with time and the amount of stuff we buy these days:
In the past you may have bought on LP once every week [as that may have been all you could ever afford], and may have played it nearly every day, you may have looked at the cover all the time, read all the info ect. These days people buy cd's by the truckload, they may download the tracks on their Ipod, so reading all the info on the cd-booklet? Well forget it eh? Simply not enough time anymore..................................Well I know some of us still take the time for these things, at least I do, but it may be because we care for music and therefore treat it slightly in a different way.
Now to Thane1200 who wrote among all things: " Often vinyl still sounds better..............." Well I am not going to take this out of its context so..................In a way I agree, or perhaps I should say: "Vinly sounds different, more darker, warmer" but I would also like to add, cd players become better and better, and how people record the cds changes as well. In the early 80s when recording in the digital format was relatively new, people went overboard with all the possibilities : Make it as bright as possible, with the result that some of these albums may sound to sterile to our ears today. But get into the 90s when people had been using the digital gear for nearly ten years a different attitiude seemed to appear: Make the recordings more sound like the old vinyl..........................
So with the new cd players I feel some of them do sound warm, yes not as a turntable, but certainly better that the early cd players.
So all in all I feel both cd's and vinyl has its place and I do enjoy both formats and can see both its advantages and disadvanges. Oh yesterday an LP slipped through my fingers, just a little accident, if it was a cd I would't have noticed it, now, as it is, I have added a little extra tick to the rhythmsection
Well there is not much I can do about it eh?
Cheers,
Eddie
Ah, those were the days!! 
