Born in the 1960’s, I grew up with vinyl records. As a child we had a kid record player that we ‘d listen to Peter, Paul and Mary’s Puff the Magic Dragon, or the Sound of music on.  When I was a little older I started buying 45s, a couple I remember were David Bowie: Fame, Golden Earring: Radar Love. When I turned 12, I joined a record club and got The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Elton John, etc. Then later it was Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful dead. In my 20’s: Talking Heads, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Jane’s Addiction, The Pixies, PIL, etc. Then I dumped it all for CDs. Many years and hundreds of CD’s later, streaming came in. And I started buying songs on iTunes. How things had changed.

Young people were born at a time when digital music and rampant music piracy, and never knew about vinyl, many have never owned a CD. In the late 90’s and 00’s people stopped buying music, the industry was turned over like an apple cart. It seemed if you didn’t hire 15 producers with the backing of a major record label, all you could hope for was to make a meager living touring and selling merchandise at shows. It seemed hopeless for the indy musical artist.

Then vinyl came back.

Vinyl is being embraced by the millennials who love the tacticle experience and richer tones of the vinyl record. The rest of us remembered how great vinyl really was and headed for the garage sales or purchased new turntables. We started the happy task of rebuilding or creating all new vinyl record collections. People started buying music again. A new age is upon us.