In rotation: 11/9/15

Your Auntie’s Fave Supermarket Aldi Are Selling Vinyl Now, Are Hipster AF: The discount shopping behemoth has embraced the vinyl revival, announcing plans to stock a selection of gems from your dad’s prized record collection: we’re talking The Beatles, Elton John, Cat Stevens, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and The Rolling Stones – all available on vinyl for just $24.99 a pop as part of Aldi’s weekly Special Buys, kicking off from next Wednesday, 11th November.

Vinyl is king at Estate Thirty3: Downtown Ashland will welcome a new small business during November’s First Friday ArtWalk with the official opening of Estate Thirty3 Vinyl on the second floor of the Camayo Arcade Building on Winchester Avenue.

Bury Market stall Save Records has been selling vinyl for 37 years: In its heyday, the business — which was founded in 1968 — had branches in Oldham, Lincoln, Rochdale as well as Bury, and DJs as well as everybody else were big buyers of the vinyl records in stock. Later, CDs arrived and business still thrived, until these were starting to be replaced by digital downloads…

Why millennials are buying more vinyl records: The entertainment industry always loves a good comeback story, and music’s latest resurgence is no exception. Despite an explosion in digital and streaming music — including Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora and Tidal — consumers are spending more money on vinyl records, and more vinyl buyers are millennials.

Independent Record Pressing produces vinyl records in Bordentown: Independent Record Pressing produces vinyl records and they have a backlog of work waiting for them.

Vinyl Record are back in the spotlight: One explanation to this growth comes in where people are buying their vinyl records from. Generally, consumers were buying their records from independent music stores. Rarely would a shopper find a record in a store like FYE.

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