There's half an aisle of vinyl records and a couple of turntable models available in the electronics department of my local Wal-Mart. Even here in this podunk town in the veritable groin of central Virginia ... vinyl is no longer a hipster trend; it is legitimately back.

Now I'm wondering if I should have kept my VHS tapes because I almost expect to see VCRs for sale again in the next 5 years.

VHS right now is very much still a niche collector thing still, but cassette tapes are growing. The main thing with VHS is getting all those weird direct to video movies and programs from the late 80s to the early 2000s.

As for vinyl, I see it for people who still want a physical release and CDs (at least in North America) are kinda passé. (Thank goodness Europe and Japan still has capacity.)

reminds me of an interesting take I heard a while back, that it's interestingly the compact disc that finally died out, on account of being the awkward middle child between pure analog and pure digital.

If all you want is music, one can just go with digital downloads, but if someone wants physicality, might as well go all the way back to vinyl, since those big sleeves offer lots of realestate. The CD, meanwhile, is kinda the worst of both worlds. In the scope of things it was only ever a stepping stone.

And with Direct-to-Video, you get a better deal with DVDs and Blu-Rays, so that's not likely going to happen. It's an inside joke of mine that Eragon (2005), the last movie to be released on VHS (with a few exceptions), could be called the VHShadeslayer.

Doubt they will make a comeback, which is why I still have two new in box in a closet for my own use...

Oh, yeah, I definitely get it. I got tired of the maintenance required for LPs back in the 1980s and never looked back. Since I like the convenience of sticking a chip in my car stereo (and it won't play cassettes) or clicking on a song on my computer to play it, vinyl is passé in my eyes. And don't even start on ripping LPs. Been there, done that, I'd rather buy the CD.

i have 4 feet of vinyl country and western. Dad loved it. and two boxes of cassette tapes of the same artists. none of which i would listen to.

*snorts*

I sure did...

V.

That and BIONICLE G1 sets in sealed containers as well as BIONICLE mask recolors. Heck of a markup from their original release, especially on Amazon.