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Just appeared on the BBC website.
You may be interested to hear that Pink Floyd's The Endless River is the fastest-selling vinyl release in the UK since 1997.
What took me by surprise was that the often mostly imbecilic and ignorant comments that appear at the end of news articles on this site (just look at the responses to any article on the EU or climate change!) are actually quite enthusiastic this time. One or two comments about 8-track, "clicks and pops" and "penny farthings", but there seems to be quite an underswell of good vibes towards our favourite playback medium.
Alex
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See my comment (and the numbers for the US) below, under the thread about the NBC Today Show piece.Eighteen years ago, there were next to no vinyl LPs being sold - doesn't take much to surpass that. The PF album smashed those records in the UK by shifting an astonishing 6,000 units.
I love my vinyl, but we're deluding ourselves into thinking this is anything more than a minor uptick in a niche, driven by a passing fad.
Edits: 11/27/14
In my electronics repair biz I'm fixing more TT's and in particular a lot of old consoles. Sadly they are mostly from the 60's and SS w/ceramic cart changers. Strange that people will spend more $$ for me to restore the old changer than taking my advice to just get 50-75 direct drive TT from Craigslist and mag phono pre. Either way at least it's vinyl!
ET
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