| CBS Evening News: In This Digital Age, Vinyl Records Are Making A Comeback CBS Evening News August 19, 2008 Harry Smith sitting in for Katie Couric. www.cbsnews.com Anthony Mason reporting: (CBS) Sixteen-year-old David MacRunnel loves his record collection. "I have approximately 1200," he said. They're all vinyl LPs. Scratch the iPod. "You experience the music versus hearing the music," MacRunnel said. For 18-year-old Lukas Glickman, LPs have become an obsession. "I spend all my money on it. It's a problem," he said. They're true believers in a vinyl revival. Yes, in this digital age, the LP is coming back from the dead, CBS News correspondent Anthony Mason reports. The group REM released its latest album on vinyl. So did Bruce Springsteen with his album, "Magic." Madonna's "Hard Candy" came out on vinyl and Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" as well. A new LP costs about $20. "It's a business decision. The major labels are doing it, because there's a lotta demand for it," said Matt Wishnow, president of Insound, an online indie music store. Vinyl records now account for nearly half of Insound's sales. "If you're a music fan and you want to have music 'stuff,' this is the most prized 'stuff' you can have in your music collection," Wishnow said. The vinyl plastic LP was created in the 1940s. But by the 1990s, CDs had made LPs all but obsolete. Two years ago, only 850000 vinyl albums were sold in the United States. This year that's expected to nearly double. Record Technology, a ... |
