Vanishing Vinyl

There’s a campaign going on among some record store owners to eliminate the long-playing record. And they may succeed, by denying space to LPs in order to make more room for compact discs.

Item: CDs retail for twice an LP’s price; therefore dollars spent on CDs give the store owners more income per square foot.

Item: Because CDs take up less space, stores can carry more titles.

What the store owners hope to do, I believe, is to discourage record makers from making LPs.

Having collected LPs since the early 1950s and as owner of a compact disc player and a couple of hundred CDs, I think I am speaking for the serious record buyer in deploring this situation.

CRANE JACKSON

Los Angeles