Ever since he was a kid with an allowance, Chris Johnson has collected records. By his estimate, he’s now got more than a thousand of them in his basement. But that doesn’t mean he couldn’t add a few ...

Fifty-six percent of Gen Z fans like vinyl for its aesthetic, while 37% use it as home decor, according to a Vinyl Alliance survey. It’s part of what Jared Watson, an assistant professor of marketing ...

The sale of vinyl records has hit a 25-year high, since its hey day in the 1980s. Both new and used record sales have increased over 100-percent in the past year. I visited a vinyl record swap and ...

Today, on Aug. 12, record stores and collectors celebrate the sound of analog by turning National Vinyl Record Day into a full-sensory tribute to vinyl culture. In a digital world flooded with instant ...

For serious record hunters, a brightly colored little cart that’s rolling into a downtown L.A. shop for about two weeks will be a treasure of a find. It will be filled with rare vinyl straight out of ...

Vinyl is no longer just nostalgia, it is a serious asset class hiding in closets and milk crates. Recent reporting on records "worth a fortune" shows how specific pressings, misprints and ...

According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), 43 million vinyl records were purchased in 2023, outselling CDs for the second time since 1987. Vinyl record sales also grew 10% to ...

RICHMOND — Music lovers are traveling from Washington and all parts of Virginia to check out Richmond’s expansive record scene. “It’s a huge vinyl town,” said Bobby Egger, owner of Vinyl Conflict ...

Take this book for a spin. A Carroll Gardens photographer is releasing a book of images that peer into the lives of vinyl fetishists — the record-collecting kind — and you can get your hands on an ...

Finding dusty record shops that cater to artsy geeks has never been so hard in Boulder, where the city’s eccentric charm has been diluted by a sky-high cost of living and an influx of techies from the ...

LA CROSSE-EAU CLAIRE, Wis. -- People collect all sorts of things throughout their life, but no one may have a collection quite like one Wisconsin man. It may not be a record-setting record collection, ...

Like thousands throughout the area, Aurora couple Pete Carmichael and his wife Kristina are spending more hours at home these days and passing the time by taking their extensive vinyl record ...