Take Me Vinyl sends its members one record a month - but what a record it is
Not one but two people running vinyl subscription clubs use the phrase “survivor’s guilt” to describe their emotions over the past year. Where other businesses have struggled, these record clubs – which once a month, or once a quarter, send you a record or two over which you usually have little or no choice – have thrived, as people stuck at home have adjusted to finding pleasure in their immediate locale.
Mike Theodoulou, who runs the small UK-based club Wax and Stamp, says his subscriber base grew by 300 per cent between May and December 2020. Cameron Schaefer and Nick Alt, CEOs of the US giants Vinyl Me Please and VNYL, reckon they each shipped around half a million albums last year. Vinyl has had a very good pandemic.
What âOldâ Technology Do You Think Is Cool?
Why do you think there is so much interest in obsolete technologies like Polaroid instant cameras, record players, Atari game systems or VHS tapes?
Credit.Ellen Weinstein
Feb. 22, 2021
Do you think âoldâ technology is cool? Do you appreciate vinyl records, for example, or Polaroid cameras? Eight-track tapes or printed newspapers? What do you find appealing about these items that our modern world has already made â or may still make â obsolete?
For a glimpse of what teenagers are into these days, all you have to do is visit Abbot Kinney Boulevard in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. On weekend nights, the half-mile shopping drag is packed with style-conscious kids who traipse past coffee shops, ice cream parlors and boutiques, often while taking selfies.