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Or maybe kiddos, taking a cue from their older relatives, are buying vinyl because it offers a different kind of listening 'experience' that digital music robs the ears of. Perhaps it's because our culture fetishizes meaningful objects from the past, although music retailer chain stores like F.y.e. Jack White's second solo record, Lazaretto, currently leads this year's vinyl sales, with 49,100 units sold.īut how has vinyl gained so much traction with youngsters? It eludes even Urban Outfitters, whose CEO expressed concerns back in March about records' explosive popularity in the teen market, as opposed to appealing to a wider, age 18-28, demographic target. Quartz reports that record sales rose over 40 percent, with 4 million vinyl albums sold in just the first six months of 2014.

Vinyl sales are at a record high this year, too. A Nielsen SoundScan report revealed that sales from vinyl LPs in 2013 were the highest they've been since 1991, clocking in at 6 million albums.

URBAN OUTFITTERS VINYL SALE FREE

While the music industry continues its free fall, vinyl sales have boomed in recent years. While the company has yet to announce how many records it has sold, when you have Whole Foods and Target now attempting to grab some of that sweet vinyl cash by selling records in their own stores, one can only speculate that Urban has hauled in a sizable sum from packaging nostalgia next to The Hangover Cookbook. Urban's business model is peculiar-it boasts inventory from about 100 vinyl vendors but doesn't actually own any of that inventory, an arrangement that seems to be working. 1 vinyl seller,' said Chief Administrative Officer Calvin Hollinger during a meeting with Urban analysts on Wednesday. 'Music is very, very important to the Urban customer.in fact, we are the world's No. The hipster emporium, whose vinyl catalog extends from Sun Ra to the Strokes, leads the world in vinyl record sales, according to a Wednesday Buzzfeed report. When it's not busy offending the public with blood-spattered sweatshirts, lifestyle retailer Urban Outfitters is making serious moola from milking people's appetite for nostalgia-especially when it comes to vinyl records.

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