I knew these were the same records that my favorite rap producers had sought out. Auburn Street, home to a collection of rare, obscure psychedelic rock, R&B/soul, and funk records, curated by local experts like the famed collector “Boston” Bob Gibson. I’d usually start at the now-defunct In Your Ear on Mt. This sparked a new wave of music discovery, introducing me to gospel, blues, jazz, soul/R&B, funk, and Latin artists I hadn’t previously been aware of. Suddenly, I could buy a cassette tape, unfurl the paper insert tucked inside, and discover the musicians behind the drum breaks, horn stabs, piano riffs, and basslines I was hearing. It’s a remarkable turnaround for a medium that, by the mid-1990s, had become a niche market kept alive by collectors, music purists eager to relive their younger years, audiophiles who preferred to listen to albums as they were originally mastered, and the hip-hop community, which has long relied on records as part of the music-making process.īut my infatuation really took off in high school, thanks to a landmark 1991 court decision that made it illegal to sample music without permission and led to samples being listed in the album credits. That the boom has occurred during a global pandemic, powered in large part not by boomers with disposable income or even nostalgic Gen Xers, but by millennials and Gen Zers, makes the resurgence of vinyl even more fascinating. To put this into perspective, more than one out of every three albums sold in 2021 were vinyl LPs. Last year, sales spiked 61 percent, topping $1 billion for the first time in more than 35 years. Records outsold CDs in 2020, for the first time since 1986, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Across the country, vinyl sales, which have been on the rise since 2006, have exploded in recent years. “Because of them, for the first time in a long time I’m ordering newer stuff like Adele.” “Young people come in looking for everything from The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, to Miles Davis,” Freedman says. Today, the store is seeing a revival in its vinyl sales.
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