Weaned on CDs, They’re Reaching for Vinyl

By artappraiser on Mon, 06/10/2013 - 4:00pm |

By Allan Kozinn, New York Times/Music, June 9/10, 2013

Vinyl is growing out of its niche. [....]

These days, every major label and many smaller ones are releasing vinyl, and most major new releases have a vinyl version, leading to a spate of new pressing plants [....]

Michael Fremer, who monitors the LP world on his Web site, Analogplanet.com, said: “None of these companies are pressing records to feel good. They’re doing it because they think they can sell.”

About a dozen pressing plants have sprouted up in the United States, along with the few that survived from the first vinyl era, and they say business is so brisk that they are working to capacity [....]

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