They say it’s a revolution – Vinyl, that is


By JIM HURCOMB If you wait long enough, everything


seems to come back into vogue. Your Mom’s tacky kitchen set from the 60s you finally talked her into getting rid of is probably in some hipster kid’s apartment today. That clunky radio that sat in the living room is getting big bucks on eBay. So what’s super cool in the retro-market


in 2014? No contest: It’s vinyl records. Those same old scratchy, poppy records that we sold off when CDs came out in the 80s. Thirty years later, CD sales are


plummeting, attacked on one side by downloading and streaming, and on the other by new and used vinyl. While nobody keeps count of used


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records, in the United States sales of new vinyl were up 40 per cent over last year in the first six months of 2014, headed for a 12-month tally of about eight million units,


making it the best year for vinyl sales since at least 1991. New vinyl is also highly visible in the


major record chains like HMV and Tower Records, and in hip clothing and lifestyles shops like Urban Outfitters. Vinyl has again become part of the youth culture. Your crib just isn’t cool unless you have a turntable in the living room, a crate of vinyl nearby and an old LP cover or two on the walls covering the water stains. The vinyl revolution is being driven


by new bands as much as by The Beatles, Stones and Simon and Garfunkel. Mumford and Sons, The Black Keys, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Jack White and other current bands have put out their new product on vinyl. A current scan of the top selling vinyl at Tower Records shows Miles Davis


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