OMG, People Buy Records? Vinyl In The News Thread

According to recent Nielsen SoundScan numbers, vinyl was the fastest-growing musical format in 2010, with 2.8 million units sold, the format's best year since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.

now this is actually newsworthy in my opinion. that whole article was just like every other one, but a little better researched.

even more!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/03/02/134204727/slow-and-steady-vinyl-survives?sc=fb&cc=fp

it's an epidemic...

http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/arts_culture/view/20110322young_people_with_old_souls_prefer_records_to_cds/srvc=home&position=recent

THEY HAVE OLD DUSTY CRACKLY SOULS!

that was the hardest article to read and not vom everywhere.

"Before I had the vinyls": sounds like he has the gout or something.

omg, why was it 2 pages?

http://www.news-leader.com/article/20110322/NEWS01/103220346/1007/Man-accused-stabbing-record-shop-employee

http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2011/03/29/6369090-why-you-shouldnt-plan-on-working-at-a-record-store-or-newspaper

When was the last time you were in a record store? Yeah, we can’t remember either (maybe it was December, but that was to buy concert tickets).

Market research firm IBISWorld.com analyzed its database of 700 industries and came up with 10 that, if not dead, are circling the drain.

They are, in order of most revenue earned in 2010 to least:

1. Wired communications carriers
2. Mills
3. Newspaper publishing
4. Apparel manufacturing
5. DVD, game and video rents
6. Manufactured home dealers
7. Video postproduction services
8. Record stores
9. Photofinishing
10. Formal wear and costume rental

While some aren’t surprising (Hello Blockbuster! How are those late fees treating you?), it does give an interesting glance into where we may be as a country. Are we slobs that never dress up anymore? And given the housing market, you’d think a mobile home might be an attractive option due to its affordability.

Which one of these do you still patronize?

So get out there and buy some records, rent a gorilla suit, take some barley down to the stone mill...

Surely the power of water ans steam and the cuteness of old mills could be harnessed to press records?

OMG think you're on to something. To hell with lathe cuts!

So much wrong in here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/music/news/article.cfm?c_id=264&objectid=10717712 Music is dead btw

that made so little sense i'm not sure i even read it

What a weird and unreadable style that's written in.

Wow, NZ news is all about the 'vinyl is back' at the moment:http://www.rotoruadailypost.co.nz/have-your-say/news/nostalgia-trip-to-the-days-of-vinyl/3947756/

haha the comments on that NZ Herald article are merciless

A Mamaku man says vinyl records are still worth buying - they have a better sound and bring back nostalgia.

Craig Roberts bought three records at the Rotorua Record Fair at Ngongotaha Hall yesterday.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgbj6dMOzl1qf8yek.gif

r.i.p.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-sad-portraits-of-closed-record-stores

except for tower and virgin kinda.

remember moving to philly in the late 80's and thinking how cool it was that there was the tower on south street and over the years slowly watching it turn into a dark pit to be avoided.

that's for sure! also, let's not forget the awesome 3rd Street Jazz.

spent many an hour in 3rd street. my friend john who worked at 3rd street for years moved near me recently! hadn't seen him in a long time.

i wonder if it's the same John i remember...lived around the corner from me in Fitler Square.

A N Y H O O

http://www.icaboston.org/custom-html/index?item_id=19199001

not only is vinyl in the news, people make ART WITH IT!

fuck a vinyl metaphor.

or maybe not. i don't even know anymore.

fuck a baby boomer though. kill their pony-tailed asses. fucking grill me about records they haven't listened to in 25 years. for hours. idiots. "oh i had all these oh i had as much as you've got in your store even more than that can you still find records who buys them blah blah blah" fuck you old man. yer either on the bus or off the bus. get out!

AIN'T GOT TIME FOR YOUR SAD NOSTALGIA OLD MAN OR YOUR SMIRKY FUCKING INSINUATIONS THAT I'M AN IDIOT FOR SELLING RECORDS OR YOUR CONSTANT NATTERING ABOUT HOW I'M TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER ANYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED EVER I GET IT YOU WERE THERE WOULD YOU PLEASE GO THE FUCK BACK THERE.

government really fucking slipped up by not going after these assholes and shipping them to the big muddy.

hahahha. god skot, how do you think it is for me?? i get "you weren't even born when i saw this band!?!?!!" all the time.

i love it when ss turns into the lex.

ha! good thing i'll never be able to grow a pony tail. zeppelin in '72. tellin' you guys.

http://www.amazon.com/Record-Collecting-Girls-Unleashing-Inner/dp/0547502230/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1303250156&sr=8-1

lolz. womyn'z be buying vinylz too

"In Record Collecting for Girls Courtney Smith takes the mic and explores what music can tell women about men"

um, okay...

girl tip books probably still sell well. what do i know?

need some actual ilx girlz to weigh in here...

omg, not ACTUALLY weigh in, i know the gals are sensitive about their weight! lol!

years ago i told myself i would try to marry the first hardcore female record collector i met. i never really met any. i settled for a music lover who started radio stations in her spare time.

"And who is going to tell you what you can learn from your crush’s music collection? (If he’s an overzealous Smith’s fan, send him packing.)"

cuz he's probably.....gay

i was always looking for a girl who could enhance my record collection, not merely copy it

hmmm, okay, but how do we get the women of ilx to come to this board and then click on this thread? this is a puzzle...

i could change the thread title to something about cats or james franco, i guess.

oh well maybe the two or three laydeez who DO post on ilv will share their thoughts.

i just got home minutes ago from buying some records and I am female, but I'm pretty sure I have nothing to add to the discussion here.

i bought

OST Cat People (Moroder!)
OST Thief (Tangerine Dream!)
Salsa Boricua de Chicago comp (numero group, don't judge)
Best of Michi Sarmiento (soundways, again, where else am I going to get this stuff on vinyl?!)

Spent too much, but hey that's what we women do amirite

i was typing that as you were summoning the ladys of ilx

i just sold records to a very nice young woman. she wanted david bromberg records. and the orson welles war of the world radio broadcast. and the point by harry niiiiiiilllllllson.

"numero group, don't judge"

everyone loves numero group! or i do anyway. how can you not love them?

hey, i dunno! i love them too -- esp the cult cargo series, and esp anything salsa related -- i know that some people are crazy/snobby about it for some reason, but i guess it's like "hey a shelf-ful of numero releases doesn't make you a RECORD COLLECTOR, maaaan" thing? i dunno. either way, i am excited about this set. it's really beautiful, and the book is going to be so much fun to read as someone who lives in chicago, loves caribbean salsa, and knows/works with a bunch of clemente grads whose grandparents might have been involved in this scene. somewhere i posted a scan of a clemente yearbook i have stored away somewhere in my piles of crap.

michi sarmiento was sizzlin btw

"because girls get their hearts broken and make mix tapes about it, too."
lol
i think this book is a fine idea, sure
i'm already getting kind of tired of "nerd" being the new "hipster" tho

there was a time when nerd meant something, and we liked it

well, to be honest, i often pass on cool new reissues cuz i'm thrifty and i usually would rather get 5 or 10 old records for the price of one new reissue or new release. most of the numero stuff i have i got in trade when i lived on marthas vineyard. i rarely buy new stuff. i did get the recent german oak reissue and i did recently buy the deep wound comp on vinyl. some stuff is just essential to have for me.

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another glorious lady of ilx heard from!

i love when women shop in my store. i basically am all for more women making music and buying music and being obsessed by music cuz i dig women a lot. i prefer them in most cases to men.

http://www.317x.com/albums/j/jonahjones2/enlargement.jpg

haha yeah i was also about to say that the only reason i didn't shop in your store when there was because of tight schedule - i didn't want to get all absorbed in looking at records and not get to actually chat with you for a bit! another time obv!
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hahaaa awesome