market agitation in the independent record business due to the introduction of CDs — Compact Discs. I would say that over the course of this project (1988), the tide turned in favor of CDs for consumers, meaning that finally enough of the type of non-pop-mainstream titles we consider in these two sections became available on CD to make it worthwhile for the musical purist to consider purchase of a CD player. Plenty of these titles, however, are still not available on CD and some probably never will be. It will also be true that an increasing amount of music will never be available on vinyl. Many new releases contain extra tracks on the CD version not found on the vinyl. The tradeoff comes in such things as the superior graphics found on LP sleeves, and of course,
