now, this year marks the seventy fifth anniversary of the lp, and the value of vinyl sales is now officially outstripping cds for the first time in more than thirty years. it means business is booming for record sellers, and it s led to some vinyl chart success for one welsh band. lucy 0wen reports. the crackle of the needle on vinyl. for some, there s nothing like it. when the cd appeared, though, it looked like the end of records. but decades later. scratch that. this is the third record fair at the dolman theatre in newport. each one gets bigger and bigger, with hundreds of people coming to snap up their favourite artists on vinyl. you find cool things on vinyl, i think, than cds because there s just so much older and you get more vintage stuff. i think there s something really nice about owning a record and then obviously it sounds lovely. last year we bought £150 million worth of old style albums as sales