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News from the BBC today.... love this quote:

"I think it's sort of a hipster thing," remarked one shopper at Rough Trade East, a popular record store off Brick Lane in East London.

LINK

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That quote is nowhere near as funny as some of the comments.

Fucks me off to hear quote liked that pulled, vinyl slaes have been steadidly rising for ten years on the trot now , the so called 'hipster' revival has only been talked about in the last 4 really...

[Spun out of control]

Yes, I think most of us who follow what is going on feel that's not the case, but you have to laugh (or maybe not).

I do think the bit in the report that said the uptake in vinyl was due to older guys continuing to collect but being joined by the younger generation wanting something more tangible feels true. Certainly bears with my experience when I go into stores to shop and join the queue on Record Store Day - grey haired chaps mixing with older teenagers and students. Anyway, positive news for labels and fans alike that vinyl's on the up... maybe not so great if there's little re-investment in pressing plants?

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The Grauniad article on the same subject is typically sniffy (as they always are when they trot the same thing out every 6 months, alternating with "the album is dead") clickbait, it's not worth getting into a discussion about it.

Their main biff seems to be "well, that's not very many, is it?" along with a thing about price and the fact that some (big) labels are using this as a way of getting people to pay for the same thing again like we did with CDs. The last point I do agree with to an extent, but that does seem to be a big part of the market and most likely the one that will push the bigger labels to invest in new machinery that'll benefit everyone else eventually - as more production = more units = lower unit price = lower retail price. In theory. Most of it's though's just about starting an argument.

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The Killers helped bring vinyl back? That HAD to be a UK thing only, right? They were so awful...and they were only popular here in the U.S. for a short time, right when the digital download craze has hit college campuses. I knew a lot of people in college that listened to shitty music like that, and they had no clue what a turntable was.