All The Roadrunning has been issued on vinyl record.
The return of the vinyl record is a peculiar trend. It is merely 5% of total sales, and CD is another 5%.
But 50% of the buyers NEVER open their records, while more than 50% of the ones that do, play the records on crappy systems.
So record companies can safely assume that 75% of the people will not have a problem being fed with expensive yet below average records and the rest 25% may be lucky enough to find a good copy after returning several copies to whichever store they bought it from.
All collectors that are also into music, will open the record and listen to it. But although I condone this strategy, I was surprised to receive this at the shop a couple of days ago!
Seeing how many official live albums the Rolling stones have been releasing in the last decade or so, and the frequent Neil Young releases, I would feel despair if MK had a similar release schedule. I wouldn't be able to afford it. And it would lose its appeal. So I am actually grateful that he is giving us one new or one from his back catalog every once in a while. A nice idea for a RSD release would be if he played some of his favourite songs, by other artists, like the two songs by JJ Cale, or some of the ones that appear in various collections . But since new recordings cost money and RSD releases are limited, I understand that this would be hard to do.
