![]() ![]() And it just led to people trying to investigate and actually listen to stuff so instead of being sort of, ah, force-fed things through radio or by the major labels on CD it was more of an organic process of discovery of things from the fifties or the sixties or the seventies.”ĬHENAE BROWN: “Yes, I bought a couple of albums today that I wasn’t expecting to buy, but they were, they called to me. TIM HARRIS: “The randomness and the, ah, you know the fact there’s a lot of obscure things you were never gonna be able to find on a CD that you could find on vinyl. He says he loves the element of surprise connected to the used records market. After it closed, he began selling used records to make a living. Harris worked for a reggae music record label for fifteen years. Tim Harris is among about forty sellers at the DC Record Fair. I like this, it’s exciting to find records that, you know, came out twenty years ago and you can buy it for two dollars.” You know, instead of just going on iTunes and buying it. She told us she did not even have a turntable for playing them.ĬHENAE BROWN: “I like the idea of buying something older. She bought ten albums for about twenty dollars at the fair. And, hundreds of people were waiting to buy.Ĭhenae Brown is a nineteen-year-old college student. Tens of thousands of vinyl recordings were on sale at the Record Fair. There were many of them at a recent DC Record Fair held in Silver Spring, Maryland. Their biggest fans can be found among young people. By this time most music lovers had stored or thrown away their vinyl albums.īut vinyl records are now making something of a comeback. Then, a few years later, music CDs were developed for mass market. They could be played on smaller devices as well. Cassettes were smaller and easier to carry around. In the nineteen eighties, cassette tape recordings began to outsell vinyl records. ![]()
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