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Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And they were also sold at incredible volume back in the day, for a couple of generations just about every household had a record player or two and shelves of record collections to play on them.

Nowadays vinyl is regaining popularity among people who buy physical music, but that is still a small fraction of the general public who have largely moved on to soft formats.