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At the dawn of the 21st century, vinyl was dead. Not just dead, but dead, dead, dead.

We were all going digital, and there was no point in keeping

this ancient format. Vinyl records were dusty, scratchy, noisy. They took up too much storage

space. They warped and got water damaged. But the biggest knock against vinyl was that it wasn't

portable. MP3s were a brand new thing back then, and the idea of being able to carry around a thousand songs on a single device that could fit in your pocket was pretty sexy.

While vinyl never went out of production, fewer and fewer records were manufactured.

Pressing plants were shut down, and the machinery

either sold off for parts or scrapped entirely. And if you happen to need a new turntable or

cartridge, good luck. Just try and find one that was affordable. Two groups of people stood between

vinyl and its extinction, hardcore collectors who never bought into all the

digital promises, and DJs who preferred spinning records instead of mixing CDs. But vinyl was doomed.

It was. It was over. But then it wasn't. Starting in 2008, a weird thing happened. Like some zombie in one of those old Italian horror movies

of the late 70s and early 80s, the format rose from the dead. And today, vinyl is doing

something it hasn't done since the early 90s, generating more revenue than compact discs.

Now, the world still buys a lot more compact discs, but because

vinyl sells at a premium, it brings in more money than CDs. Despite supply chain issues,

shortages of polyvinyl chloride, backups of pressing plants, and higher and higher prices,

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