Why the record album HAD to give way to the compact disc (idea)

I'm not so sure the technology itself was invented so people could do icky things.

I'm more sure that the ever diminishing number of companies that publish music, and produce, recordings needed a great hit of cash--and what easier way than to transform selected titles from vinyl to CD.

After that hit, they grew, dinosaurs that they are. And they need more money. Why do you think there are sensations? Spice Girls, Back Street Boys--they make a lot of money in a short time for the dinosaurs.

And, of course, the installed infrastructure of CD Players that had to be bought. What good are years old record players to corporations that need cash now? And what about the average cost of CD's, compared to records?

One of my students tells how, when he was a child, he used thorns to ride the grooves in the original hard rubber records. And his record player was cheap.

There was a sense of solidarity that people of his generation felt around their music, and even those in the sixties--revolution!

This has been captured--our energy has been harnessed to run hyper capitalism!