[78-L] Youth collectors

[Gene Baron]

There are several threads on this interesting topic so I wasn't sure which
one to reply to but I chose this one.  I think we need also to distinguish
between colelcting the discs and interest in the music itself.  My son is 22
years old and is about to graduate from Earlham College in Richmond
Indiana.  Not too many people know much about Richmond IN other than us old
music enthusiasts (for Gennett, or course) and Quakers (for the college and
related Quaker organizations located in the same town).  Falling into both
of these groups, I am no stranger to the area.  But I digress -- my son has
a strong interest in music going way back, and has even featured English
Music Hall and old Hillbilly music on a radio show has has hosted from the
college for a year or so.  He enjoys seeing the oddities I pull out from the
basement, and I am sure he'd be pleased to get my 78rpm records at some
point, but I doubt he'd listen to them much.  He is very much of this era in
that even the oldest of the music he plays is from CD reissues or gotten on
line.  So in his case anyway I think the interest in the musical content
outweighs the interest in the physical record itself.  Thanks.

Gene
gene.baron at gmail.com

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:15 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> dl
>
> > 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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