clipped from: news.cnet.com

Top 10 sellers of 2008--on vinyl

From Nielsen Soundscan by way of the LA Weekly and Rolling Stone, here are the top 10 vinyl sellers in 2008.

10. Radiohead, OK Computer, 1997

9. Metallica, Death Magnetic, 2008. Maybe the vinyl version won't be overcompressed to death.

8. Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes, 2008

7. Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon, 1973. Remember those posters?

6. Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, 1998

5. Portishead, Third, 2008

4. B-52s, Funplex, 2008

3. Guns 'n' Roses, Chinese Democracy, 2008. This will be a collectors' item someday.

2. The Beatles, Abbey Road, 1969. Now I can replace the copy my daughter stole when she went off to college.

1. Radiohead, In Rainbows, 2008. I feel kind of guilty about paying one cent for the download.

Overall, vinyl accounted for a whopping 0.1 of all music sales last year! How long before preloaded microSD cards surpass vinyl to become the third-most-popular music format?