When I first saw the commercial, I recalled the Skittles walrus hubbub, and wondered if there'd be similar complaints. Yup.

Scratches are pretty bad for both formats, though vinyl doesn't have error correction like digital audio does (unless you count nudging the tonearm to play through a locked groove).

I tried to stress in my original reply that I have no illusions about the sound quality of new (by which I mean digitally recorded and brickwalled) music on vinyl. Ridiculously compressed, clipped digital audio will still be that way on vinyl, though clipping is dithered a little on vinyl.

I liked this band better when it was called Alt+916—you know, before they changed to be more slick.

Durability's another issue—anecdotally, CDs don't degrade from playback like vinyl, and vinyl presumably lasts longer than ideal storage conditions than CDs, but heat will do a lot more damage sooner to vinyl than a CD.

I'll go there / Sister's there

And the chorus chord progression is the same as in "The Joker," though I doubt that's where it originated, given its simplicity.

Fun fact: The original inner sleeve of In Through the Out Door changes from black-and-white to color when wet. When I read about this secret gimmick, I tried it on my wife's copy, secretly.

What's funny about the storage issue is that vinyl sleeves are typically thinner than jewel cases, but much larger, and harder to transport in volume (from my experience).

The last new CD I bought was very probably Janelle Monáe's The ArchAndroid. And that was after I downloaded it legally. Yes, I've double- and triple-dipped music before.

I buy used CDs infrequently now. (I'm 27.) I used to have an eMusic subscription, but I ended it after more than four years of ambivalence—decent independent-label selection was hampered by poor quality control (skips, gaps, volume discrepancies, and wrong tracks that never got corrected) and needing to use up credits…

Mister Language Person sez: "Depending on your reference, WTF is technically an initialism or abbreviation; LOL is an acronym."

Over-produced yet under-compressed! That was the silver lining for me.

The novelizations were released before the films, so there's some built-in spoilage in the business.

NIEN NUNB WUNB WUNB WUNB

Maybe it's pronounced pea-LOW.

Y'know, some elbows look kinda nipply. Or, rather, areola-like.

That's why it's a good idea to have someone nearby to help cover them manually.

Wasn't that in the book that Butters wrote?

Maybe that's why Rev. Henry E. Miller got so tired of his bullshit.