@ Rob ("As far as masters go, only an idiot records in digital.")

I guess then that 95% of the recording industry is composed of idiots then...

In this day and age, everything is recorded and mixed digitally. True, they won't be using mp3(!) or even "CD quality" but rather much higher bitrates!

As far as Vinyl vs MP3, I guess it all depends on WHICH vinyl and WHICH MP3... (but personally, i prefer a nice multichanel SACD - a dying format, i know, but i still love it!)

p.s. "Yoday Is Your Father", I totally agree with you! It's a pitty but it's true: Music has become disposable.

But the death of the record store is not what i'm worried about. It's mostly the death of the used CD shop - that is scary! I could name dozens of artists I love today that I discovered through used 2$ cds, tapes & even LPs picked up from used record stores, hand-me-downs, garage sales or pawn shops and the disapearance of this part of the market is really a tragedy for our future musical heritage. Music is now deletable.