Vinyl records on the rise as CD sales plummet
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:55p.m.
The Beatles' Abbey Road is a top seller on vinyl
It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.
This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release Accelerate inadvertently entered the LP code instead. Soon boxes of the big, vinyl discs showed up at several stores.
Some sent them back. But a handful put them on the shelves, and 20 LPs sold the first day.
The Portland-based company, owned by The Kroger Co, realised the error might not be so bad after all. Fred Meyer is now testing vinyl sales at 60 of its stores in Oregon, Washington and Alaska. The company says, based on the response so far, it plans to roll out vinyl in July in all its stores that sell music.
The Beatles' Abbey Road is a top seller on vinyl
It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.
This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release Accelerate inadvertently entered the LP code instead. Soon boxes of the big, vinyl discs showed up at several stores.
Some sent them back. But a handful put them on the shelves, and 20 LPs sold the first day.
The Portland-based company, owned by The Kroger Co, realised the error might not be so bad after all. Fred Meyer is now testing vinyl sales at 60 of its stores in Oregon, Washington and Alaska. The company says, based on the response so far, it plans to roll out vinyl in July in all its stores that sell music.
- Maya: "Mommy why is that CD big & black?"
- Mommy: "That's called a record album."
- Maya: "What does it do?"
- BJ: ((Snort, Snicker, Laughs . . . and lets me answer alone))
- Mommy: "Well years ago a needle read the grooves on the record album and produced music."
- Maya: "Like Grandma's sewing machine, it has a needle only I've never heard any music."
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