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According to U.K. music paper NME, Neil Young claimed during a recent interview on Frame, a California radio show, that vinyl is "nothing but a fashion statement."

Of course Neil is entitled to his opinion and we will still love him and his music but he is completely mistaken when he made this blanket statement on the radio show:

"A lot of people that buy vinyl today don’t realise that they’re listening to CD masters on vinyl and that’s because the record companies have figured out that people want vinyl."

True, some records are unscrupulously cut from CD masters when high resolution master files exist but Young's blanket statement is simply not true as we all know.

Ironically it is Neil's Pono service that is selling a shit load of CD resolution files to play back on his Pono player that's capable of higher resolution reproduction.

Young did walk back his assertion later in the interview saying about vinyl, "It's a great niche and it's a wonderful thing and I hope people continue to enjoy vinyl and it continues to grow because it's a good thing."

He concluded his contradictory ramble by saying "this is a convenience-oriented society and vinyl is not a convenient thing."