When Brown was in college, he remembers the roles of vinyl and CD buying were reversed, when buying records was cheaper than buying a CD. Brown remembers used records costing around $5 and used CDs ...

Jukebox Hero — The rise of the CD threatened Vinyl Recorder creator Friederich Schien’s vinyl jukebox business; new songs simply weren’t being published to the records his jukeboxes could play.

Everything old is new again. I know that’s a cliché, but I’m talking about how vinyl records have made a comeback in the past decade.

It can also be improved by features like glow-in-the-dark or multicolored. Additionally, vinyl record jackets and sleeves are 10 times larger than CD jewel cases or cardboard jackets. The bigger the ...

The last three years have each set successive records for vinyl sales in the CD era. In 2010, 2.8 million LPs were sold, up 14% from 2009--and more than any other year since Nielsen SoundScan ...

A relic of the record industry’s pre-Napster boom period thanks to megastars like *NSYNC, Britney Spears and Eminem, U.S. CD sales accounted for $13.2 billion in 2000, their peak year, according ...