(thumping music) (bright music) - The development of multipurpose albums was a complete sea-change in the use of vinyl.

That can be for, you know, artwork.

And it can be for design purposes.

It can be for pleasure.

It becomes a collecting item as well.

So it's a very, very good carrier of art rather than ephemera.

(serene music) There's nothing better than owning an artifact which represents your investment in a piece of artwork.

And I don't just mean financial.

You are sharing the culture with the people that are making it.

You are involved physically with that musical entity to have an artifact that then becomes part of your identity without asking kind of ethereal nothing to play it for you.

Seems to have been lost on a lot of people.

The great downside to streaming is it's not right for the artists.

It's just not right.

It strikes me as being, you know, completely unfair.

How do we expect young artists to feel inspired enough to write more stuff?

If the Beatles sold a million copies of an album, they might get some money out of it.

You need your royalties.

And I'm not saying it's all about money, but it's nice to think that you can pay for your hotel that night rather than drive through the night to an Xgig.

It's like being a blues man in the 1920s.

And I think to turn it into an artifact that goes beyond it being simply a holder of music is common for most of us, you know?

And the fact that it was lost and is now being restored has got to be a good thing.

It's got to be.

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