Comment by JohnFen
3 days ago
A wide range, actually. It's more about the time period and artists than musical style. If it's earlier than the 90s and/or from an artist who wasn't big on the charts, it gets more likely that they're not available except on used CD.
In that sense, the depth and variety of good music that is available has been shrinking for a long while now. The advent of streaming seems to have made it worse.
By contrast, before I got rid of almost all my vinyl, one particular sub-collection that I had was about 200 12" singles from the London club scene in 1981-1985. Almost none of the tracks ever appeared on CD or were ever released digitally.
All of them were available on youtube, even the whitelabel DJ-only releases!