According to a recent music report from eBay, the online auction giant, they sell more than 3 million vinyl records each year.  It is also reported that eBay users buy and sell six vinyl records every minute or an average of one every 10 seconds.  It seems that the vinyl record, just a few years ago an afterthought as a music audio format, is alive and well.  So what is all the fuss about?

The best music quality come in vinyl?!

If you ask most any record collector, they will tell you that it is the sound quality they love the most about vinyl.  The music isn'’t compressed into ones and zeros or “binary sound.”  Then there is the element of “collectibility.  Some buy vinyl music as an investment hoping that over time the records will appreciate in value.

Furthermore, people collect vinyl because they often want a piece of their past.  So nostalgia can also be an important element for the record collector. Then there are those who are drawn to actually owning a physical product and may enjoy the ritual that is involved in listening to the music records.  And a new generation has discovered the special allure that vinyl records have.  Limited editions, colored vinyl, picture discs, “audiophile” records (a 180-220 gram), the music album cover artwork, and the sound have all lured a younger crowd into the hobby of collecting vinyl music .

Music in vinyl recording are selling like hotcakes

But, there are more reasons people collect vinyl music.  Besides the above mentioned elements, it is big business.  The old vinyl records on the auction sites, as well as the hundreds of other vinyl related web sites, are not selling their collectible vinyl for rummage sale prices.  In fact, at any given moment there may be more than 6,000 collectible Beatles’ albums for sale on eBay.  Some have sold for thousands of dollars.  It is reported that the music album that is bought and sold the most in vinyl format is the Beatles’ “White Album.”  It's not only the Beatles that sell well and are highly collectible.  Music artists such as the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Madonna, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Elvis Presley and even newer artists like Nirvana, Radiohead and many more are all highly sought after.  There is also a keen interest in “Northern Soul,” Motown records, old blues recordings as well as jazz, punk and indie vinyl music.

Furthermore, recording artists themselves are reported to own vast and eclectic record collections.  Just as creating music is their passion, finding rare and collectible vinyl is sometimes just as important.  It is reported that John Lennon was an avid collector of all the Beatles’ bootlegs he could find.  Peter Buck, of the rock band R.E.M. is an avid collector as well and there is a long list of musicians who get the same thrill as all collectors get when they find a specific vinyl record at an estate sale that may have eluded them for years.

However, it is not just the garage sales, rummage sales, estate sales, record conventions that carry collectible vinyl music.  The online community has responded as well, and besides the auction sites, there are literally hundreds of web sites that sell vinyl exclusively, in any musical genre that a person may have an interest in.

People also collect vinyl for the album cover art or the 45-rpm record sleeve and some may be more valuable than the vinyl record that they hold.  Businesses have emerged that frame these marvelous pieces of art and audio history for display and preservation.

There is more to the music the records hold

So just as there has been a resurgence in the sale and visibility of vinyl records, along with this is an increase in the hobby of vinyl record collecting and album cover art. This hobby is as old as the format itself, and a wonderful hobby that will continue to thrill its participants for decades to come.

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