I'm angry. I don't need vinyl if CD gives me all the new songs. Album could be released this year but vinyl will delay the premiere.
This is a decision from the record company, cd still sales, but the biggest amount of sales for record companies come from vinyl sales, so the record companies are going to give priority to vinyls, it doesn't matter the cd can be produced before,
Who would have thought this is possible in the year 2022? I don't want vinyl, I don't want CDs. Give me a USB-C storage in tune with the album cover or Mark's guitars like live show USB. With hi-res audio, additional material, 4K video, photos and whatnot. We're not living in the stone age anymore, record companies, do you hear me?
How two niche and outdated mediums still be a priority in making albums? This is ridiculous.
People who buy digital files might be a small number in comparation, as usually those people doesn't care about physical things, so probably they don't even care about buying the digital files, but listen to them in places like Spotify that give little money to record companies, as it's something they can't touch, it has less value, in comparation with cds and vinyls, which are something that real music lovers still care about and you can touch, something that has a value that you can hold with your hands, with a cover, back cover, liner notes etc etc, so they get the best sales and the big money for record companies.
I have to confess that I buy the vinyls and the cds, I open them, read the credits etc, but in the end, I don't play them, well, I put the cd once in my computer and rip it into my hard disk, and I listen to that, or if I'm not in home, throught Amazon Music or Spotify.