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RE: Vinyl Outselling Digital in UK

" I'm not really sure what a "style" or "fashion" purchase of an LP would be."

I apologise for not being more clear. A "style" or "fashion" purchase is one made where the function or utility of the object is less important than in demonstrating the status of the owner to the world in general or to a peer group. A good example of this these days is the world of mechanical wrist watches whose function can be bettered by quartz watches at a fraction of the cost.

In LP purchasing terms, style purchases relate mainly to teenagers who buy the discs without any means of playing them but who ensure that they are displayed in a such a way as to impress their peers with their owner's grasp of what is currently hip.

Back in the day teenagers (at least here in the UK) were known to wander the streets carrying LPs as a means of showing their hipness and as a visible token of their membership of a teen sub-group. A classic example of this is the well documented meeting of Mick and Keef on Dartford station in the first years of the 1960s. Of course they could and did play the records too.


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