Vinyl solution

Sarah Ditum

VINYL IS BACK, BABY, BACK. If you happen to be my mum and have spent the last five decades cohabiting with my dad’s record collection, you might be inclined to ask sarcastically whether it ever went away. But the introduction of the CD set vinyl sales on the long slide to nothing. So it’s remarkable that last year, vinyl outsold CDs for the first time since 1988. Like Labour’s relentless gains on the Conservatives, this is a story of incumbent failure as well as insurgent success. When vinyl sales began to reverse their long-term decline in 2008, CDs were already beginning to look sickly: the arrival of digital downloads prompted a turn away from physical formats altogether shortly after the millennium. Record companies, slow to recognise that the internet had…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2023

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