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Throw your cellular device away, the times of listening to putrid, stuffy, compressed versiosn of songs is over. Vinyls are making a comeback, and they’re packing heat.

Well, maybe don’t toss your phone away, you know… Spotify and such and being able to listne to your songs wherever you are, but that’s not the point I’m trying to get pass you. Record vinyls have been on rise over the last few years and they’re capturing music guru’s full set attention. If there’s one thing that we’ve lost over the last decade or so, it’s being able to purchase and own actual physical copies of music since everything is digitilized and on the cloud now, and that’s what I believe makes vinyls so captivating.

There are a lot of other values that are making vinyls a hot commodity nowadays though. To list a few off, one; I mentioned this earlier, the uncompressed sound. Music on vinyl naturally sounds a lot fuller, artistic, and potent, due to it being uncompressed, meaning you get to hear the full-on natural sound the artists wanted to convey to you.

Second of which, if you’re one of those investing, grindset, kind of person, there’s a lot of money to be put into these records. Since so many of the ones made nowadays are limited edition or numbered to aroun /2500, they’re a hot commodity, sometimes going for a couple hundred bucks, and that value as of now, continues to spike.

And last but not least, they’re a simply a vivid touch to your music collection, being able to actually have a physical copy of your favourite song or album. You can leave it on display, hang it on the wall, use it as a frisbee… well, if you’re the extreme type I guess.

But all in all, vinyls are making their revival and if you’re a big music buff, check out your local record store, or rummage through your parent’s collection before it gets sent to the Salvation Army cause there’s no room in the house for them anymore. And who knows?.. some of them could be worth something!

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