What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital?

It’s always a crap shoot buying new LPs. I have a couple of Better Records $$. Nice but a lot of money for 40 minutes. And for that money I can buy a lot of stuff.It would be nice to get into new music that I might find by checking out the Pandora app on my smart TV. Think this may be the best advantage of streaming. I also sometimes buy an inexpensive CD of a LP I am interested in to check it out. But it is a drag that so many of my very favorite CDs are crazy expensive on vinyl. Eg. Rickie Lee Jones Pop Pop and Marc Cohn debut album. Pop Pop can sell for hundreds on Discogs!

Bone records are crap (but good souvenir), in Soviet era it was impossible to buy even mainstream records from America or Europe, except for one source - overpriced black market dealers, it was a crime back then. So people made bone records in terrible quality to re-sell them.

At the same time nearly all Melodiya presses of foreign LPs in USSR are bootlegs and musicians never get paid even if they are Rolling Stones or similar big names in show business. Melodiya is one and only record label in USSR.

They did the same with books, in one of his interview Erich Maria Remarque claimed he never get paid for any of his books translated to Russian, he was extremely popular here and they sold millions.

They also copies Japanese photo cameras and hi-fi audio equipment, simplified them to release on local market under new Soviet trademarks.

Chinese can do the same now.

"Thanks Youngsters"??? mrpgray is was us old farts that got the youngsters into vinyl in the first place!

I think mwinkc has it right. You have to go wherever the music is. I remember how bad I thought CD was until I heard the original release of Lauri Anderson's Mr Heartbreak. Darn, you could make a CD sound pretty good if you wanted to. We use to blow customers away with CDs like the original Telarc Firebird, ka BOOM! I still play that CD when I want to make a subwoofer impression. This is where digital rules, in the deep bass. My own rule of thumb is if it was recorded in analog it should be played back that way and same for digital. 

dletch2,

"Is the screen white when it is off or do I now have Wall color, white, black instead of wall color, black?"

If it is about Samsung Frame TV, the screen is black when off, but  there is more to it.

It does not have to be on the stand. It can be on the wall. It can be programmed with whatever artwork one wants. Some is already in the TV, more can be purchased, or your own artwork/photographs can be used.

Screen itself gets a frame, a few colored options. TV turns itself off if there is nobody in the room for some time.

My nephew bought it and is very happy with it. That led to me having his previous, perfectly functional 4K TV boxed in the basement.

Tanks for info surfmuz.  Fascinating; does ring a distant bell...