Wait, that can’t be true. If Elvis Costello really hated the CD, he wouldn’t be reissuing My Aim Is True every six months or so. Anyway, Elvis has just added his name to the growing list of music industry rabble-rousers (say hello to Radiohead, Saul Williams, Gnarls Barkley…) by announcing that his 136th record (give or take a hundred or so), Momofuku (out April 22nd), will be available only as an LP and digital download.

What, no cassette?

Oh yeah, no CD too.

Following the lead of a few forward-thinking indie labels (namely Saddle Creek and Merge), the LP will contain a code for a free digital download of the album, but there will be no CD. Granted, Elvis is at a point in his career where he can release everything on cassingle and it wouldn’t really kill his bottom line, so the real test of this move will be if/when smaller, less nationally known, acts do the same.

Elvis, performing “Radio Radio,” before CDs were invented: