If you’ve ever experienced the cruel disappointment of raking furiously through your CD collection searching for, say, Einstürzende Neubauten’s Strategies Against Architecture Vol. 4, only to discover that in some strange and ironic mix up the case is in fact occupied by your mum’s copy of Daniel O’Donnell’s Moon Over Ireland, then you like me may agree that the digital music revolution gets an unfairly bad rap sometimes. But something you certainly can’t do with an MP3 is stick it in a stocking come Christmas – one reason among many to celebrate the modest resurgence of the vinyl record. You’d really struggle to fit a vinyl record in a stocking too, but you get my point.
Besides sounding and looking awesome, vinyl records also hopefully ensure that somewhere down the line…
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The Big Issue United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, 18-12-2017