If nothing else, the resurgence of Vinyl is kind of interesting:

In 2008, 1.88 million vinyl albums were purchased, more than in any other year since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking LP sales in 1991. The previous record was in 2000, when 1.5 million LP albums were sold. More than two out of every three vinyl albums bought in 2008 were purchased at an independent music store, according to SoundScan.

I don't think this will go very far though. Most people aren't audiophiles, and the convenience of an iPod trumps whatever quality hit you may (or may not) be able to perceive. What we are seeing, IMHO, is another instance of narrowcasting. There aren't that many audiophiles in any one place (compared to MP3 buyers), but there is a market if you aggregate them all together - and the net has made that possible.

The oddball outcome of that might be this: vinyl may outlive the CD, because the CD doesn't offer much over the MP3 (especially with DRM-free outlets like Amazon around).

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