Vinyl retailer hoping he’s top of the pop-up shops: A scheme for pop-up shops in Wallingford now has a new addition – a music store selling vinyl records. Richard Strange used to run The Music Box in the Market Place until it closed in 2006. Following a revival of interest in vinyl and an increase in sales the shop reopened in Castle Street on Monday.
Haçienda DJ selling 8,000 piece vinyl collection: Buckley Boland is to become the second former Haçienda DJ to take the plunge and sell his immense vinyl record collection-after veteran DJ Dave Haslam shifted his collection last month.
Vinyl records are making more money than ad-supported streaming: Vinyl record sales brought in $221.8 million in revenue between January and June 2015, a 52 percent year-over-year increase, according to the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA). Ad-supported streaming services brought in $162.7 million during that same time period, according to the September 2015 report “News and Notes on 2015 Mid-Year RIAA Shipment and Revenue Statistics.”
TVD Recommends Record Stores by Bernd Jonkmanns: The vinyl record has been on the market for over 65 years now, but there has not yet been a photo documentation series published about record stores. The book Record Stores has nearly 400 pages with more than 500 color photographs from 33 cities including a 6 page register with 200 record store addresses and web pages—a size similar to a 10’’ vinyl, this 27 x 27 cm hardcover printed by seltmann+söhne. Order it online right here!
A matter of record, Spectre Records: The brick-and-mortar record store was reported dead a decade ago, right alongside the newspaper, demolished in the dread path of Hurricane Internet. But those reports have been greatly exaggerated. Newspapers—some of us, anyway—have found ways to adapt, and likewise record stores have proved quietly resilient.
Some local retailers report strong holiday shopping season: At its present location inside a 6,900-square-foot building on 28th Street in the Jefferson Square shopping center, Record Rack also sells Greek clothing, hookahs (water pipes), biker gear, swimwear, swords, knives, black and strobe lights, skateboards, autographed guitars, e-cigarettes, lingerie and other goods.
