Episode #169 - The Environmental Impact of Vinyl Records, CDs, and Data

We talk with Kyle Devine, author of a new book about the environmental impact of music recordings, which raises a number of issues that we had never previously considered.

Guest:

• Kyle Devine
• Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music

Show notes:

• Nightmares on wax: the environmental impact of the vinyl revival
• Shellac (Wikipedia)
• Vinyl Record Production in Peril After Fire at California Plant
• What the Vinyl Records Comeback Really Looks Like…
• Phtalate (Wikipedia)
• William T. Vollmann: Carbon Ideologies

Our next tracks:

• Sir András Schiff plays The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (Visual Album)
• Cream: Goodbye Tour - Live 1968

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