Best Buy Going For Warmer, Fuller Sound


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]

 
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  1. Anonymous  |   Posted on Jul 8th, 2008

    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.

  2. Camp Tiger Claw  |   Posted on Jul 8th, 2008

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  3. Captain Wrong  |   Posted on Jul 9th, 2008

    Great. Now we can look forward to soccer moms crowing about the superiority of the warm sound of vinyl just like an asshole hipster.

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