The most enduring form of storing recording music is the a spinning disc with grooves cut into both sides. The record dates back more than a hundred years and it still refuses to die. The resurrection and renaissance of vinyl continues as a small but rabid cadre of music fans get deeper into this old technology.
For the first time in years, new record pressing plants are opening, like RIP-V in Saint-Lambert, Quebec. It’s one of fewer than a dozen manufacturing plants in North America–but like all the others, it’s pretty much going flat-out to satisfy the growing demand for LPs and 7-inch singles.
But let’s not get too excited. This is a still a very niche market. If you count up all the new vinyl sold last year in North America, you come up with a figure of around 3 million records.
Still, considering where things were just a few years ago, that’s pretty impressive.
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