re: Vinyl Sales Hit $1 Billion In U.S. Revenue Last Year

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The ability to touch, feel, and see something. The raspier voice and the ever subtle difference of tone with every play vs. a digital recording. I like it and will continue to buy a few records every year.

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its tangible. Like watching movie made on film, you can see the grain, it's alive.

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inyl Sales Hit $1 Billion In U.S. Revenue Last Year

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I do collect them. I have about 160 in all, and play them occasionally. These are my Beatles (or Beatles adjacent) ones (minus one I picked up a few weeks ago):

I've owned a record shop since 2001 that's mainly used vinyl.

Over 75% of my customers are 18-30 years old (although collectors in their 40s and 50s are usually the ones buying really rare stuff). There's always been a lot of record collectors but the big change in the business is young people buying vinyl in increasingly larger numbers.

Vinyl is always the big seller by a wide margin but original cassettes have been pretty collectible for a while and the format that's making a big comeback with many younger people these days is actually the CD. To kids that, like my generation with 60s rock and soul records, weren't born when they first came out.

It's not hard to understand. People love music. Young people increasingly live in a tenuous nonmaterial world. Albums combine music with a material object-- even art object -- and listening to it's a physical, ritualistic experience Pretty much the exact opposite of everything else kids are fed these days.

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Ironically, I take very good care of the vinyls.

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I cleaned mine meticulously. Had the spray, a brush etc.

Yes, the foldouts were cool. I remember 1999/Thriller for example.

Great experience.

But the sonic difference when CDs hit was mind blowing. And didn't really require ANY care like records.

You must have been ROUGH on your CDs.

I got into a clutter rage one day and threw out all my CDs. I still regret it.

I will say the streaming services have "suggested" new artists to me that I never would have discovered the old way. Tyler Childers, Sierra Ferrell. etc.

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News Flash: They are still recorded digitally.

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new pressings, yeah.

but there's tons of "vintage" stores where you can still get the old original pressings of past albums.
sometimes at killer prices too.

the new pressings are also on heavier vinyl than the old ones were. so the sound is definitely fuller.

I'm not an audiophile by any stretch of the imagination. but I do have a few vintage records from the 70's and also newer pressing of the same albums. and there is definitely a sound difference between the two.

Yes... most of my collection is old stuff from my mom, aunt, grandma, and some from garage sales, but I also buy maybe 10-15 newer albums a year.

Have over 600 total now.

I have been collecting vinyl for 15-20 years. The majority of what I collect are 50-70s jazz, rock, other stuff. I try to get first pressings in decent shape. I generally do not buy albums recorded digitally and then pressed to vinyl

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I'm waiting on 8 Track to come back.

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Until people realize that a song cuts out midway through and picks up after switching tracks. And when you switch tracks it doesn’t start the track from the beginning, you might be in the middle of a song.


That was back in the day you had to like every song and not just one or two unless you bought a single.

Best part of vinyl is all the liberal climate chicks have a million versions of their albums in different colors.