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Image Description: Johnston’s “Hi, How Are You” mural in Austin, Texas. There is a quote by the legendary BBC Radio DJ John Peel which has been overused by many a budding music journalist attempting to create a unique think piece on music: ‘Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because […]
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8 am Saturday morning I arrived at Truck record store in Cowley. A queue outside stretched all the way down the street and was composed of people of all ages. Record Store Day is an international event promoting independent record stores where special edition records, and a few cassettes if vinyl is now too mainstream […]
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For a long time, vinyl was the go-to source for music reproduction dominating much of the 20th century. Eventually, it was outsold by the compact disc in the late 1980s and its popularity began to decline dramatically from there. At its low point in 2007, as few as 205,000 vinyl LPs were sold in the […]
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It’s been touted ‘the Vinyl Revival’ and, whether you’ve felt the nostalgic pull of owning records or not, you probably know people who have. 2016 saw vinyl’s popularity soar, with approximately 3.2 million records sold in UK, the highest figures since 1991. Supermarkets like Sainsbury’s and Tesco began stocking them, and in December, for the […]
Continue ReadingThings will never be the same for the music industry. It’s a tired old refrain, but never has it borne more truth than in the case of the compact disc and the likely demise of HMV. I can’t remember the first record I bought from the chain (I have a feeling it was Trampoline by […]
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