I found this interesting when I saw the update from Linkin Park. About a month or two ago I identified that there seemed a new up and coming of vinyl for the alternative rock genre. Whilst I knew that Lostprophets and older bands were releaseing or re-releasing albums to vinyl, it's sort of struck me to see this. Linkin Park is a huge alternative rock band and to see them release a vinyl means many things; firstly, the genre is housing this 'styled' or 'culture' effect to it, keeping the vinyl; secondly, it is possible that vinyl is progressively becoming popular due to piracy issues; lastly, Linkin Park are a huge mercheant relient band, it's effectively remakerting their album 6 months down the line with the 'styled, old time cool look', maintaing this culture of keeping things somewhat retro and capsolised in this time. More so, what other genre does this? Apart from classic rock, I can think of no other expect for the rare expection. So it seems it is becoming a popular convention for the alterntaive rock genre and why shouldn't it be. I grabbed this screenshot of Facebook because it seems popular already despite the rumour of vinyle being dead. Otherwise, convention is still the same. The colour and imagery on the pack is a smiliar style as Living Things, it has that disorted, choatic image thing going on which really relates to the theme of rebelliation in their music and the pack is black and white - exactly what we've been looking at.

Sure, vinyl is a little out dated, but who's to say it isn't worth looking at when we come to do it with a CD pack and a digi pack. Why can't we do a vinyl pack too?