Big Turnout On Store Day Shows Rebirth Of Vinyl

Shaun Tandon, Business Insider
Sat, 04/18/2015 - 3:50pm

New York (AFP) - Music lovers lined up for blocks and sellers reported bumper trade on Record Store Day, a sign of the rebirth of vinyl in one bright point for the long-troubled recording industry.Some 3,000 independent stores Saturday in nearly two dozen countries put out new and reissued records specially for the day, which was conceived in 2007 to support businesses facing a twin onslaught from instant digital music and corporate chains.To mark the occasion, rock giants the Foo Fighters -- accustomed to filling arenas -- played a concert for 150 people at a store in a strip mall of tiny Niles, Ohio, near the home of the grandmother of frontman Dave Grohl.Third Man Records, a Nashville store run by rocker Jack White, put on sale a reissue of Elvis Presley's rare first single, "My Happiness," in packaging resembling the 1953 original.On one of the year's first summery days in New York, several stores had waits of more than an hour as fans sought to buy some of the 400 special releases on sale in the United States.Kim Gordon of alternative rock icons Sonic Youth and classic English punks the Buzzcocks held signings at the New York branch of Rough Trade, which also put on artist events at its original British locations and in Paris.Vinyl-only store In Living Stereo, which opened several years ago in Manhattan's stylish Noho neighborhood, welcomed shoppers with free cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and live bands as special editions sold quickly."We are selling everything.

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