Hey, independent music stores: Did you think for a minute you had the vinyl market to yourselves? With the vinyl market as the only physical portion of the biz that improved last year (nearly a million new vinyl albums were sold, up 15 percent), did you think the big boys wouldn’t notice? Well, they have: Best Buy is looking into the vinyl biz, testing the format in several of their stores. Obviously, Best Buy doesn’t expect record sales to become a huge portion of their business, but at very least, it keeps kids out of those pesky local stores. [Minneapolis Star Tribune]
Best Buy Going For Warmer, Fuller Sound
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This was inevitable i suppose. Best buy is doing whatever they can to destroy nearly extinct mom and pop record store.
I really hope that the indie labels do not cut pricing deals on vinyl with best buy like they do with cd’s.
Geek Squad to be replaced by Dad Squad.
Great. Now we can look forward to soccer moms crowing about the superiority of the warm sound of vinyl just like an asshole hipster.