{"id":4956,"date":"2015-02-06T06:21:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T06:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/02\/06\/neil-young-comments-on-vinyl-revival\/"},"modified":"2015-02-06T06:21:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T06:21:04","slug":"neil-young-comments-on-vinyl-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/02\/06\/neil-young-comments-on-vinyl-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young Comments On Vinyl Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\" u-underline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/18\/Neil_Young%2C_Heart_of_Gold.jpg\/640px-Neil_Young%2C_Heart_of_Gold.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"220\" height=\"323\" \/><br \/>Neil Young<\/span> has scoffed at the much ballyhooed vinyl revival, claiming the upsurge  of interest in the beloved format is \u201creally nothing but a fashion  statement\u201d.Vinyl sales in both the US and UK rose significantly last year \u2013  though it should be said those rises were from very low bases. In the  UK, <span class=\" u-underline\">vinyl sales passed 1m<\/span> for the first time since 1997, while the format saw a <span class=\" u-underline\">49% year-on-year sales rise in the US<\/span>, with almost 8m sales.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Young, however, said there was no audio reason for music lovers to  buy vinyl. \u201cA lot of people that buy vinyl today don\u2019t realise that  they\u2019re listening to CD masters on vinyl and that\u2019s because the record  companies have figured out that people want vinyl,\u201d Young said in an  interview with southern California radio show the Frame (<span class=\" u-underline\">via Exclaim<\/span>).  \u201cAnd they\u2019re only making CD masters in digital, so all the new products  that come out on vinyl are actually CDs on vinyl, which is really  nothing but a fashion statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Young has scoffed at the much ballyhooed vinyl revival, claiming the upsurge of interest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}