One element of the ever changing music industry is that the sale of vinyl records has increased and that these audio treasures are still in demand. In our age of digital products and downloads, there are still millions who prefer the sound and experience of vinyl records. In this article, let’s explore how a person ...
Vinyl records have stood the test of time. From eight tracks to cassettes to CDs, Vinyl still lingers on and refuses to die. There is even a small but devout cult of collectors today who all share passion for the plastic fantastic. And why not? Records not only have a certain sound quality which can’t ...
At my daughter’s sweet sixteen party, she received an attractive, fluted black bowl filled with bath products as a gift. Imagine our surprise later, when we removed the fruity shower soaps to discover that the bowl was sculpted an old sixteen inch vinyl record. As a child of the 70’s, this craft really appealed to ...
Like most aging hippies, I have a wickedly awesome collection of old LPs. Even though most of my vinyl LP records date back to the 60s and early 70s, they’ve withheld the test of time because of proper storage. LPs, which is short for long playing are 10 or 12 inch vinyl records which were ...
Believe it or not, grading records is not hard to do. It only takes a little time. How we describe what we see is another matter. Unfortunately, the grading standards used to determine a record’s value takes on many forms and uses a wide variety of terminologies. Unless you are there to physically look at ...
After searching the Internet for the world’s Top Ten Most Valuable Vinyl Records, one can be sure that the lists can be subjective, vary from country to country and will fluctuate over time. For instance, the copy of John Lennon & Yoko Ono “Double Fantasy” LP, the one that he signed for Mark David Chapman ...