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They probably don't own DNA Lounge slipmats, either. Half of Vinyl Buyers in the US Don't Have a Record Player: One might think that the rise in vinyl sales would call for a corresponding rise in turntables. As it turns out, however, about half of...
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I’m wondering what percentage of that was as presents for the other half
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wait what? how is this possible? wouldn't it be one turntable, many vinyl albums?
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So who are the other half, buying but not playing? Dealers, collectors, unbearable hipsters?
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@Bill Hooker @jwz I bought a collector's edition vinyl bundled with a FLAC to support an artist I like

Record lives on my wall

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Gifts, no doubt. For the person they know who bought a turntable.
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Vinyl is essentially the new commemorative plates
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Half of Vinyl Buyers in the US Don't Have a Record Player

Even if true, this is a very misleading statistic. It says “50% of vinyl buyers don’t own a record player” which does not mean that 50% of all records are bought by someone without a record player.

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Got the slip mats, just need to work out where record desk(s) might go and then fish the rest the vinyl out of storage.