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Vinyl Records Becoming More Popular
Vinyl Records Becoming More Popular and Retain Value CBS News December 4, 2009 Music Fans Expected To Buy 1.6 Million LPs In 2008, Citing Desire For A Purer SoundMeet The Demand (CBS) Remember turntables? They were used to play LP’s, those long-playing records developed by Dr. Peter Goldmark of CBS Labs. They spin at 33-and-a-third [...]
Vinyl LPs See A Rebirth In Modern Market
Associated Press December 4, 2009 Vinyl LPs See A Rebirth In Modern Market Music Fans Expected To Buy 1.6 Million LPs In 2008, Citing Desire For A Purer Sound (AP) It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain. This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.’s latest [...]
How Vinyl Got Its Groove Back
CBS Evening News December 4, 2009 How Vinyl Got Its Groove Back In This Digital Age, Vinyl Records Are Making A Comeback (CBS) Sixteen-year-old David MacRunnel loves his record collection. “I have approximately 1,200,” he said. They’re all vinyl LPs. Scratch the iPod. “You experience the music versus hearing the music,” MacRunnel said. For 18-year-old [...]
Niche market – Vinyl records better than digital cd’s
Niche market – Vinyl records better than digital cd’s – Still Setting ‘Records’ Digital Music News, Daily Snapshot December 4, 2009 Labels have been treated to a number of unexpected growth stories over the past decade, perhaps the most out-of-the-blue being ringtones. But as the ringtone wanes, the trajectory on another unexpected contender, vinyl, remains [...]
The New York Times – Vinyl Records and Turntables Are Gaining Sales
The New York Times December 7, 2009 Vinyl Records and Turntables Are Gaining Sales At a glance, the far corner of the main floor of J&R Music looks familiar to anybody old enough to have scratched a record by accident. There are cardboard boxes filled with albums by the likes of Miles Davis and the [...]