Retailers have started to sell vinyl again. Why would anyone think that vinyl is such a great format? It pops, clicks and sometime scratches. These, apparently, are some of the very reasons why. It's adds to the charm of the format and brings it closer to the live experience.
According to the Recording Industry Association of America, manufacturers’ shipments of LPs jumped more than 36 percent from 2006 to 2007 to more than 1.3 million. Shipments of CDs dropped more than 17 percent during the same period to 511 million, as they lost some ground to digital formats.
SoundScan reported vinyl sales reached 2.8 million units in 2009, up from 1.9 million in 2008, a record since SoundScan began tracking sales data in 1991.
In this age of iPods and digital downloads, why are vinyl records enjoying this resurgence in popularity? Several reasons come to mind. Baby boomers and empty nesters now have time to listen to music again, not just play it in the background of their busy lives. Teens that have grown up only listening to digital are discovering this once thought to be obsolete technology that was first introduced in the late 1800’s by Thomas Edison. Another main reason has to do with today’s economy. With everyone having less expendable income to purchase music, we are rediscovering our record collections and teens are discovering their parent’s record collections. Let’s face it, there isn’t a lot of good music being made today. And, of course, vinyl records sound better. Though CD’s have wider dynamic range, the audio on CD is compressed to make it as loud as possible. And since the audio on vinyl records can’t be compressed to such extremes, records offer more subtle nuances that transfers to more warmth and richness in the music. No matter how high the sampling rate in the digital process, it can never contain all of the data in an analog record groove.
I never stopped using mine. I still have a turntable. My youngest daughter always liked to help me with housework while listening to "Stars on Long Play" and Donna Summer. Turntables are cool and vinyl rocks!
Many retailers sell vinyl now. Amazon.com has a line of vinyl you can check here HERE
They also have the recent Elton John/Leon Russel Album "The Union" on vinyl HERE
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