Vinyl sales

Even with the decline of downloads that medium's sales far exceed that of vinyl's and the reason is obvious - vinyl is more expensive. 
A download costs around $10-$12, the same recording on vinyl?  Double that. 

Vinyl also requires the listener to exercise more care in playback, and storage. I'm probably like many members here who started out with the classic stereo gear of the 70's - a receiver, a turntable, two speakers.  That I've stayed with two channel listening since then, and have invested a lot of discretionary income on equipment all along the way, is not necessarily a generational commonality.  

I love the fact that vinyl is coming back, but unless my memory fails me I believe vinyl was a helluva lot cheaper back then. Long live it, but $25 for an LP could scare a lot of newbies away. 

Regardless of the well intentioned inflationary comparative offered below I never felt as pinched spending $5.99-$6.99 on vinyl back in the "good old days" as I do now spending $20 and up.  Personally I buy all 3 formats regularly without disparaging one format over another - my cd collection exceeds my vinyl even after pretty much mirroring every LP that I own. 

My nieces and nephews are perfect examples of how most music is purchased today -their various phones and tablets contain more of their music than their cd collections do, and their cd "collections" are pretty much best-of collections, nothing anyone here would consider a library. They also listen to streamed services instead of radio which I have yet to warm up to. They want XM in their cars and their "stereos" are portables - sheesh!
They enjoy listening to my turntable when they're visiting my house but neither has so far felt compelled to purchase one for themselves. 

It is GREAT indeed to see vinyl doing better now, rather heartening indeed - and now reel-to-reel is coming back???  

Long were the hours I spent making party reels from my LP collection...