Vinyl sales soar among youth
Imitri Giannopoulos’ bedroom looks more 1969 than 2011. The 17-year-old Boston Latin Academy senior has posters of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Miles Davis, a trio of guitars and a massive stack of wax.Giannopoulos is one of thousands of millennials rejecting the digital world for old-fashioned vinyl records. The Jamaica Plain teen jumped into the trend last year when an older cousin gave him a turntable.
“It just sounds better, warmer,” he said, thumbing through his already impressive stack — Santana’s debut, a half-dozen Simon & Garfunkel albums, Miles Davis’ “Sketches of Spain.” “I’m a huge Chet Baker fan, but he’s hard to find.”
A high school student looking for Chet Baker vinyl is rare. But not as rare as you might think.
Sales of new vinyl are steadily increasing. Last year, music lovers bought 2.8 million LPs — up 14 percent from 2009 — and sales are on track to hit a two-decade high this year. Locally, Newbury Comics predicts it will sell $1 million in vinyl this year.
That is just new product. An army of teens and 20-something vinyl junkies are scouring thrift stores, yard sales and used record shops for treasures. The area’s newest store, Somerville Grooves, opened this week in Union Square.
Jamaica Plain roommates Sam Potrykus, 23, and Lenora Symczak, 25, are busy building collections in hundreds.
“It’s not a fad, it’s a correction of the errors of the digital age, of awful CDs in their ugly plastic cases,” said Potrykus, an obsessive music collector who has 1,000 CDs packed away in the basement of his house.
“There’s nothing more exciting that holding a big square with that cool artwork on it,” Symczak said. “I got into vinyl because I felt really overwhelmed by current technology.”
She and Potrykus, who live with a half-dozen roommates in a de facto artist collective in a house dubbed Whitehaus, swap records and listen to music as a group without those odious earbuds.
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