Analog backlog: Pressing records during the vinyl revival
Analog backlog: Pressing records during the vinyl revival
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模拟积压：黑胶唱片复兴期间的压榨记录
DOI：
10.1111/jpms.12247
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
0.2
通讯作者：
Michael Palm
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作者：
Michael Palm
在独立唱片公司和零售店持续增长了十多年之后，主要的唱片公司和连锁店将黑胶唱片作为一个增长部门，半个世纪来第一次需求超过供应。在这篇文章中，我分析了最近的乙烯基流量的趋势，并批评了当代乙烯基文化的一个突出特点：唱片店日。一年一度的节日促进了乙烯基的销售，同时成为推高成本的通货膨胀引擎，自世纪之交以来，随着销售的飙升。这关系到一个可持续的流行音乐唱片供应链，它不依赖于在线访问数字化内容，也可以在企业零售机器的控制之外蓬勃发展。我描述了压制厂和独立唱片公司如何应对黑胶唱片需求的激增，最后，我建议独立音乐的支持者和学者如何通过将其与数字化分离来更有效地对抗企业控制。对于独立音乐的爱好者和制作者来说，主要唱片公司重新接受像黑胶唱片这样的模拟格式可能会像公司对数字发行的束缚一样具有威胁性。
After sustained growth for over a decade among independent record labels and retail outlets, major labels and chain stores embraced vinyl records as a growth sector, and for the first time in half a century, demand began outpacing supply. In this essay, I analyze recent trends of vinyl traffic and critique a prominent feature of contemporary vinyl culture: Record Store Day. The annual holiday has boosted vinyl sales while become an inflationary engine driving up costs, which alongside sales have skyrocketed since the turn of the century. At stake is a sustainable supply chain for recorded popular music that is not beholden to online access to digitized content and that can thrive outside the grip of corporate retail machinery. I describe how pressing plants and independent labels are coping with the surge in demand for vinyl records, and to conclude I suggest how supporters and scholars of independent music can more effectively combat corporate control by decoupling it from digitization as two distinct phenomena. For lovers as well as makers of independent music, the major labels' reembrace of an analog format like vinyl can be as threatening as the corporate stranglehold on digital distribution.