“I only really took interest in vinyl recently, mostly due to getting a job selling records online. I’m not from a particularly musical family, so all that was really around when I was younger was a couple of Whitney Houston cassettes and then some Now CDs when they came about, so my knowledge of records was very limited; I only recently learned how to work the damn player.”
“About a year and a half ago I started working with a company that sells vinyl online, and due to the recent increase in sales this meant that there was a lot more records coming through than usual. It’s pretty much from here that I took a real interest in it, with picking up some of my own for the first time.
I think it comes down to two things; the physical attraction to a cool sleeve and vinyl design and that the quality of music that they create. It’s good to hear music the way it’s meant to be heard, away from shitty Mp3 quality songs out of a laptop speaker.
My favourite vinyl I have at the moment is a limited print of the Drive soundtrack by Cliff Martinez. This comes as a double vinyl in bright pink, which looks pretty cool.
It’s good to see a growing trend in records sales, it’s inspiring as both a musician and a customer as this shows an increased interest in music and means that old classics are now available on vinyl again.
It’s sometimes nice to pick up a brand new record in mint condition rather than hunting through the 50p record bins in the local record shop for an old bashed up copy (although you can’t beat a cheap bargain from there). It’s also great to see many of these stores surviving when only a couple of years ago it didn’t look so good.
It’d also be cool as hell to have our own album pressed and the more that vinyl sales grow, the more likely this to happen!”
—John Cargill
Copper Lungs’ self titled EP was released last week, April 25th via Thin Hippo Records.
