Going Back To Vinyl Records

This factor is pretty straightforward when it comes to vinyl records value.

Going back to vinyl records.

This can be the best part of building a record collection. Explore our selection of records by price point by genre more. You ve undoubtedly heard it before. The famed vinyl revival.

The days of vinyl records being a nostalgic relic of the past are long gone. Every record store has. Record sales have been on the rise since 93. One of the world s biggest record labels is going retro.

Shake it records a vintage record shop is enjoying the vinyl revival at the same time stores like best buy are dropping music cds best buy says it will no longer sell them after june. This year vinyl sales have outpaced cd sales in the united states for the first time since the 1980s. It just sounds better on vinyl. In australia vinyl album purchases increased by 70 from 2012.

Records that sold well and are quite common are going to be less valuable than records that sold poorly or are hard to find. A lot of albums sold in the 1970s and early 1980s sold millions of copies when new and as such it isn t difficult to find copies in nice. The past five or six years have seen the real boom with vinyl sales in the country and around the world absolutely thriving. It s been reviving for quite a few years now to the point where we can just about call it revived.

Go buy some records. Whether they re going back to vinyl or streaming people are selling off those cds as streaming gives the music industry its biggest profits in a decade the cd business continues to plunge.