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TechStuff

The Rebirth of Vinyl

TechStuff

iHeartPodcasts

Tech News, News, Technology

4.31.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Vinyl sales were on the decline from the 1980s to the mid 2000s, but since 2006 sales have been on the rise. What's the history of vinyl, and what makes this format special?

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0:00.0

Deep in the mountains of Greece, the country's most-wanted man has been on the run for over a decade.

0:07.0

He's a bank robber.

0:09.0

We hear Abarazha shots.

0:10.0

A kidnapper.

0:11.0

But to many Greeks, he's a hero.

0:14.0

His name is Vasili Spaliokostas, and we're on the trail of the man behind the men.

0:19.0

A modern-day Robinhood who steals from the rich and gives to the poor.

0:23.0

I'm Miles Gray.

0:24.0

Listen to The Good Deep on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:35.0

Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio.

0:42.0

Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff.

0:45.0

I'm your host Jonathan Strickland.

0:47.0

I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and how the tech are here.

0:52.0

So originally I was going to do a Tech Stuff tidbits today to talk about something I just think is cool,

0:58.0

which is really the history of vinyl record sales here in the United States.

1:04.0

But it quickly grew beyond tidbits size.

1:09.0

No big surprise there.

1:10.0

Y'all know me.

1:11.0

I'm a chatty-cathy at the best of times.

1:15.0

But I thought we could look at a technology that traces its history to really the 19th century.

1:21.0

The late 1800s.

1:23.0

And then evolved and grew gradually until it became a dominant technology that waned in the 1980s,

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