The relative cheapness of manufacturing CD's Vs vinyl LP's had nothing to do with paper, _petr_ , and litle to do with the amount of physical material.

The whole mechanical process of generating the physical item was cheaper, and the digital recording process was relatively cheaper, and there was less paranoia (and less need for expensive technical solutions) about loss of quality with multiple passes from one analogue tape to another during the editing process... but still a reasonable comment.

And I preferred the size of the LP package anyway, I could read them without magnifying glasses... :-)

Supposedly, when reissuing recording on CD's, many artists find out that they get offered a lesser dollars per item rate than even the original one, although the "development costs" have been paid off.

And then there are many stories about artists getting almost nothing, when they find out just what is deducted from their "payment" as "costs"... even end up owing the company...

"I owe my soul to the company store!"

"I load 16 tons..."

Robin