Dangerous was released at a time when CD had become the dominating media of choice, and I’m certain that has got to be at least part of the reason as to why it is relatively rare to find it on vinyl. The same logic then applies to all subsequent albums. You can even see it (although to a much lesser extent) with Bad, which in a way was Michael’s big media transition release (LP￫CD), whereas Off the Wall and Thriller — it was all vinyl back then! (Well, cassette [MC], too. Even CD was available way before 1987, but its market was tiny by that point. You get the point.)
And then with Invincible, there was another transition at play, namely that from CD to digital (mp3, streaming etc.).
I am a bit surprised at the number of Thriller and Off the Wall copies in your video, but for other reasons: I would’ve thought you’d want to hold on to such classics. At the same time, I can think of many reasons as to why they’d be there. Poor masters are no doubt overrepresented; if you’ve got your hands on a decidedly better sounding version of the album, why would you ever want to hear the inferior version again?
Anyway, these are but my slight thoughts on the matter. I am interested to hear everybody else’s.
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