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

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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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