OT: Vinyl sales double in last year !ZOMG!

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

This is what is terribly misleading about  journalism headline 
'grabbers' sometimes:

This is the headline from a website that Travis graciously directed us to:


  Back to the future: Vinyl record sales double in '08, CDs down


    What's old is new again when it comes to audio storage

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Storage&articleId=9124699&taxonomyId=19&pageNumber=1


This article reports in it's headline that VINYL sales are up and CD 
sales down,
making it look like a trend that VINYL is on the move to supplant CDs

I did the math:

1.8   million VINYL sales
360  CD sales

that make VINYL sales    0.005%  of total CD sales.

Hardly a trend of note.

mp3 sales surged from 32 million to 65 million
which is, again,   only 18%  of total CD sales


Now that we have that sorted,    I want the real statistics:

How many FREE mp3s have been downloaded?
Of those FREE mp3s,  how many were illegal downloads;   how many were 
sanctioned?

How many video games purchased?      
How many DVDs (of movies)  purchased.
and lastly,   how many times was Guitar Hero purchased and, more 
importantly,   played
by kids who will never touch an instrument in their life.

Comparing these figures to CD sales (which plummetted from 550 million 
to 360 million in the past two years)  will be
more telling statistics, I imagine.

signed,  someone working hard to release several recordings on a medium 
that apparently no one wants to purchase   <ouch>