[Harry Lavo]

The New York Times has a feature article on Record and Turntable sales in
Sunday's edition. The following is just a partial quote from the article:

"Rachelle Friedman, the co-owner of J&R, said the store is selling more
vinyl and turntables than it has in at least a decade, fueled largely by
growing demand from members of the iPod generation.

'It's all these kids that are really ramping up their vinyl collections,'
Ms. Friedman said. 'New customers are discovering the quality of the sound.
They're discovering liner notes and graphics.' In many instances, the vinyl
album of today is thicker and sounds better than those during vinyl's heyday
in the 1960s and 1970s.

Sales of vinyl albums have been climbing steadily for several years,
tromping on the notion that the rebound was just a fad. Through late
November, more than 2.1 million vinyl records had been sold in 2009, an
increase of more than 35 percent in a year, according to Nielsen Soundscan.
That total, though it represents less than 1 percent of all album sales,
including CDs and digital downloads, is the highest for vinyl records in any
year since Nielsen began tracking them in 1991. "

--NYTimes, December 6, 2009

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Harry Lavo
Holyoke, MA