Vinyl record sales keep on spinning: No end in sight to the growing popularity of records over CDs

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Vinyl record sales keep on spinning: No end in sight to the growing popularity of records over CDs

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Wednesday 5 April 2023, 02:04 PM

Vinyl records CR Miriana Doroban on Unsplash

Records might develop snap, crackle and pop sounds with repeated playings, but many people are choosing them over the digital quality of CDs [Image: Miriana Doroban on Unsplash]

New artists are releasing their music on vinyl records in a resurgence of the format, and young people are buying them. Jay L Zagorsky suggests that buying and playing vinyl could be a new kind of status symbol

In the mid-1990s, I sold off my family’s very large collection of records despite my wife’s protests Over the past decade, vinyl records have mad, Dice coloured CR Robert Coelho on Unsplash, Older technologies are finding new favour – including board games and earlier digital cameras [Image: Robert Coelho on Unsplash]

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