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Vinyl records have endured every format that threatened to replace them. CDs would make them obsolete in the eighties, ...
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 ...
The Beatles hold the all-time record for No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 with an astounding 19 chart-toppers—a milestone ...
The riveting new book Dust & Grooves Volume 2 explores the history and legacy of a little-known but fascinating music industry grift As a result, these tax scam labels wound up creating catalogs ...
Vinyl album pressing company Vinylkey is linking the physical world of music, in the form of old-fashioned records, with digital identification and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that provide traceability ...
Editor's note:This is the second in a series of stories on collectors and collectibles. Spinning records is not just a nostalgic way to listen to music. It hasn't been for years. The popularity of ...
In recent years, vinyl records have made a massive comeback, with some rare albums fetching staggering sums. Compared to digital formats like Spotify and Pandora, the warm, raw sound of vinyl has ...
If you collect records for, say, a half-century or so, people will ask you questions (some of them brilliant; others kind of dumb) about your hobby. And if you’re a record collector who also happens ...
Editor’s note • This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting local journalism. Carson Williams owns all nine colored-vinyl editions of Taylor Swift’s ...
Back in the days before the commercial advent of the compact disc, when vinyl records were the format of choice for purchasing and listening to music, albums would go out of print all the time, ...