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Record Sales On The Rise

VINYL COLLECTORS BUCKING DOWNWARD TREND IN ALBUM INDUSTRY

Posted: December 25, 2011 at 4:43 a.m.

Glen Wheeler collected albums for years and he ran the Record Exchange in Fayetteville for almost 30 years before closing shop in the mid-2000s. Sales of vinyl records are on the rise as new recording artists put out music on vinyl. He estimates his LP collection to be in the thousands.

The sound may not be crystal clear. They can be scratched and skip from time to time. It’s not a very mobile music form.

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Patrick Kells of Fayetteville shops Dec. 15 for a record for his brother at Sound Warehouse in downtown Fayetteville. Despite... (By: Andy Shupe)

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