Colin McEnroe Show: Vinyl Records Aren't Going Away
We talk with vinyl enthusiasts in advance of Record Day 2011.
We're talking today about independent record stores. At first I thought the show would be mostly about the romance of vinyl, but I see now that that's not the point. (Or at least that the emphasis should be on romance and not on vinyl.
The point of those stores -- as illustrated in the book and movie "High Fidelity" -- is not so much the recording format as the notion of a store owned and staffed by people who care passionately about music. People who might even hurl a customer out in to the street for trying to buy his daughter a copy of "I Just Called to Say I Love You" and then segue neatly into a conversation about the Top Ten Music crimes perpetrated by Stevie Wonder in the 80s and 90s.
OK, that's extreme. But the caring part is important. Whether its book or videos or audio, some of us want to be with other people who live and die by the stuff. Because you are what you like.
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SELL OLD RECORDS
It is quite remarkable how the popularity of "old fashioned" vinyl LP records has grown recently. Besides the aging baby boomers retiring and restoring their long lost and neglected vinyl records storage shelves, there are three more categories of people who are purchasing and listening to vinyl albums, and that keeps the old LP record values and vinyl record prices high.
E-mail From Dennis
I hear you're discussing where to find vinyl records on today's show. Just a head's up: I am a local man (New Britain now but grew up in Hartford's northend) who sells hard to find records on-line at recordsandthings.com. Until last summer, I owned and operated Records & Things on the Silas Deane Hwy in Wethersfield for 30 years, until this economic depression finally did me in. Check out the website!
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