All Posts Tagged With: "vinyl"

Amazon Gets Vinyl

It’s been one of the biggest stories of the last two years within the industry, and the trend hasn’t changed, vinyl is selling again. Even beyond collectors and DJs, vinyl is becoming a viable source of revenue for the industry once again. from 2006 to 2007 vinyl sales over doubled, from 3 million pressings to [...]

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Second Hand Gold: Herbie Hancock’s blow up extra sessions

[Second Hand Gold is a new weekly column about second hand purchases of rare or previously unheard of musical artifacts.]
Just under a month ago I moved 1300 miles across the country, and as I was traveling by luxurious U-Haul, I had little choice but to sell off most of the vinyl I owned and store [...]

I’m switching back to vinyl

Like most of you, I download a lot of music. People recommend stuff and they send it to you. What are you gonna do, say, “no, I’d rather not try this out first, I’ll just drop $15 on the CD and hope it’s good?” (Yeah, I did this with REM’s [...]