• hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    The vinyl record industry has enjoyed a resurrection largely driven by Gen Z.

    Hasn’t vinyl been back for over a decade? I know marketer defined generations aren’t super meaningful, but I hate how blatantly the narratives they’re trying aren’t internally consistent

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Yeah, I definitely collected records starting in my mid-teens throughout my 20s (I’m in my 30s now). I’d say it went from having to go to weird record shows populated mostly by old old dudes, to record stores popping up everywhere, to having records in Target sometime in the mid 2010s.

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      5 months ago

      Purely anecdotally, I’m Gen Z and I went to high school with a guy who was big into vinyls, and have never otherwise met someone with that interest. So it tracks in my limited experience shrug-outta-hecks

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          It was still a thing is certain music genres. Metal genres especially, like Black Metal. I can’t remember which band it was but a few years ago they released their whole decades long discography on cassette tape. Just a big box of tapes of black metal so you could get your trve kvlt on.

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        i think the industry boomed around lockdown, heard a couple people talk about them in HS in 2021 and so far in uni i’ve been to 3 dorms with record players (mostly those shitty suitcase ones). sometimes i see a bunch of vinyls hanging on someone’s wall so i think some rich kids just get them for decoration 💀

        personally i find them expensive as hell so i go for more CDs depending on the genre/sound