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In Reply to: RE: Vinyl Outsells CDs again posted by kentaja on March 27, 2024 at 14:51:42
Well, the numbers in your linked article do show strong sales in the younger age brackets. That's surprising to me because, as others have mentioned, I don't hear much about younger people buying turntables and LPs. I must not interact with the demographics that are because I live in a fairly rural state and don't spend much time in urban environments any more.
Edits: 03/27/24Follow Ups:
Yes the younger crowds are showing up. I have been a regular seller at a local show since 2001 and have noticed a huge upswing in younger buyers over the last few years.
The question remains... Will they just buy Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, AC/DC, Nirvana... Or will they get into the more obscure stuff like the older folks are buying up?
Edits: 03/28/24
I have a hunch that most of the posters on this thread are older, I am, 62 gulp! And beyond kids, grandkids they don't have much interaction with younger adults. Our friends tend to be the friends we have known for a long time and they are older as well. Rural America tends be growing older as well versus the urban centers which tends to be younger.
I have been single all my life and yes I certainly have older friends but most of my friends are under 40 a few under 30. I decided I didn't want to grow old and have no one around since they have all died! So I have consciously cultivated friendships with younger adults. It keeps one young I believe and gives one an interesting perspective on the world.
Go in to any record store in the city and you will find most of the people in the shop are younger adults. The old people bring the records in and the young ones take them out!
Very funny but so true. That is exactly what is happening at our only record store in Anchorage. Young folks buying records in the store are in the majority. At 78, I give the records I no longer want to the owner, as he is a good friend from the old garage sale days.
Record stores? How quaint!
;-)
I visit record stores around SoCal after my weekend-warrioring and they are always busy. Usually, I am looking for used classical (the only bargain left in vinyl) and have those crates to myself. There was a one-off record fair in my town a few weeks ago and the place was a zoo. There were bands and a bar but, even so, you could hardly get at the records.
One statistic in the last set of RIAA sales figures stood out for me, that 50% of people buying records don't have a record player. Presumably buying LPs as band memorabilia? I think there is a bubble in audiophile re-issues that will pop as us boomers die-off and, perhaps, the youngsters will have moved on to something new by then too.
that's in most everything filmed these days.
That could be a LONG while though.
I'm always impressed when the record label is actually
correct to the song playing*, even if the track isn't.
*seldom happens.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
We have a lot of them here in KC. 20+ easily. Most are pretty small shops but a few are big, Any major city is going to have a lot of them as well.
Younger adults like the experience pretty much like we did. You can spend an afternoon flipping through the bins looking at the artwork, holding the record in your hand, reading the jacket, etc.
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