Vintage vinyl record players for sale5/10/2023 People of ALL ages went to record stores but older people are not very aggressive about buying online. I would think they should be as this process of graduating to digital may have GREATLY affected record sales over the years. Apparently, kids are ALSO fascinated with Vinyl and Delicious Vinyl just opened a Vinyl record store in Hollywood as reported by Radio Facts.Are the record labels ready to answer the call? As I pointed out in this article about record players and my undying fascination with them since I was a kid, I could not be more thrilled that the industry is returning as posted in a New York Times article this week. There was absolutely an amazing process to buying records when I was a kid that is COMPLETELY lost with iTunes and digital music. Vintage Record Players – Vinyl is returning. I have a preference for record players from the 60s, which was the best era for furniture period, very sleek slim and well designed. The manufactures were not playing when they built these vintage record players back in the day. This record player probably weighs close to 300 pounds. Any of us who are over 40 know how valuable the experience of turntables were, buying records, and reading the sleeves while listening. With the resurgence of Vinyl (a story I wrote below in 2013 about it) vintage record player were bound to follow suit. Today, if I rewire and replace the speakers and the motor, even though all work fine with a little static, I can get more than $2000 for this record player but I’m not selling it. That record player was going to be mines as I’ve always been a collector. He had passed and her and her husband were moving out of town and needed to get rid of it. I called the woman selling it who told me it was her father’s record player. A young white couple was leaving town and needed to get rid of it.Ībout 10 years ago, I was scanning Craigslist and saw the exact same record player that my favorite babysitter Barbara Smith had when I was 6 years old. I found this record player on Craigslist and drove to Compton, CA to pick it up.
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