“Kind of Blue”, The Beach Boys “Pet Sounds”, The Beatles “Abbey Road”, and Pink Floyd’s timeless “Dark Side of the Moon” in the Top 10 sellers, alongside Pearl Jam’s “Ten”, Mumford and Sons “Sigh No More” and Kanye West’s “The College Dropout”. In fact, virtually every new
release from major and indie labels released in the last year and a half is shipped in both CD and vinyl formats, and the vinyl copies usually contain a bonus electronic download of the record. John Thompson runs the Record
Centre on Wellington Street. The store specializes in used vinyl with more than 150,000 albums in store or in storage, and an amazing selection of refurbished audio equipment and turntables from the 60s and 70s. He breaks today’s vinyl buyers
into three categories. The first is the veteran collector
who never left the hobby. I call this demographic the middle-aged, bald guys who would rather spend a Saturday leafing through record bins than doing the yard work. The second group are the fans
that grew up with vinyl but sold off their collections when CDs became the rage in the 80s. “They’ve got the milk crates in
the crawlspace and they want to get a turntable going again,” says John. “They know how good the vinyl sounds but they left it when the music industry pushed them towards the perfect sound of CDs.” In fact, the new vinyl records
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sound even better today with improved pressings and heavier grade vinyl, and many artists are going back to analog rather than digital recording. And then there is the surprising
third demographic: The 18- to 30-year-olds who pack the used record stores and grab all the really good stuff at the Great Glebe Garage sale…the little bastards! John says this is the market that has sparked the vinyl revolution.
“I think a lot of kids are coming to
it because of the hipster/cool factor, but I think what happens is when they get here and they get a turntable and they start holding records and hearing them, they’re hooked. Then that whole cool factor fades and it becomes a legitimate thing for them, and they start to love records, the ritual, and the things we grew up loving.” Ian Boyd of Compact Music in
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