[78-L] Youth collectors

[David Lennick]

Vinyl seems to be "hip", but Barnes & NoBull tried it for about five minutes. Possibly the fact that they were carrying stuff like "Sweet Baby James" for $18 when you can find an original copy in any Goodwill for a buck didn't help.

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> Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 16:09:47 +0000
> From: fnarf at comcast.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Youth collectors
> 
> > So everybody on the list is right - the young people of today 
> > don't know what a 78 is and they are also very interested when
> > they hear one.
> 
> I don't think 78s will be coming back anytime soon, but vinyl LPs sure are. Sales have been increasing by 30% a year for a couple of years now, with the biggest interest among young people, even teens. At some hipster stores, records sell as much as, or more than, CDs, and most new releases today are available on LP, with a coupon for a free MP3 download. It's CDs that are in most danger of dying out; the only reason anyone wants them is to rip to MP3 as quickly as possible and get rid of (records are a pain to rip).
> 
> In addition to new releases, companies like Sundazed are reissuing thousands of classic country, rock, funk, and jazz LPs. It's a little startling to walk into a shop and see pristine new copies of the first Flying Burrito Brothers or Pretty Things record sitting in the bin for the first time in forty years!
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