Do Clubs Still Use Vinyl

Why do people still buy vinyl records.

Do clubs still use vinyl.

Below i m referring to charts house clubs in switzerland. Awesome new records starting at 39 per month plus free shipping in the us. Still not completely convinced by vinyl me please makes. Of all the music formats vinyl has the most value.

When i was younger and wanted to join record tape or cd clubs my parents always told me the stuff they sent out wasn t good or popular that it was just there to clear their unwanted stock. Let s recap grow your vinyl stash quickly with music tailored specifically to you. I m not sure if this is the correct subreddit to pose the question but i figured asking in r vinyl would only give me biased answers. A new breed of subscription record clubs has sprung up offering vinyl albums accompanied by handwritten notes and cocktail recipes.

Though they only make up 3 4 percent of album sales and 6 percent of physical sales the number of vinyl units. That sucks right there. In the vinyl dark ages music media subscriptions faded into time. As has been often reported the vinyl market is doing better than it has in a while.

And the vinyl is yours to keep. Dedicated to the album as visual experience they hand pick a record every month pairing it with a piece of art and a custom cocktail recipe and bundling the lot into a beautifully packaged gift. I have records in both vinyl and cd and anyone who owns both mediums knows playing a cd is infinitely more convenient than vinyl. Meanwhile the musical heritage society was still doing some vinyl until at least 1994 because it issued chant by the benedictine monks of santo domingo de silos as a two record set on vinyl with a black white version of the cover on the angel reissue that became the 1990s most unlikely hit album.

Even adjusted for inflation this is still a pretty cheap price for that many records. They may still have a turntable but that is a digital one which is just used to imitate scratches on digital files or mix to tracks together live. Probably the most popular club on the market vinyl me please delivers a surprise a month straight to your doorstep. But record collectors have no use for record club editions just the way book collectors have no use for book club editions.

This is hard to answer objectively it s very location and music style dependent. Vinyl records today might sell 10 times its original price 20 years from now. I d say especially club djs don t use vinyl anymore. Btw in the cd era the clubs requested a cd to make their cd master from not a 1630 clone.