From the Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal:
Records' time to spin again
Vinyl albums make a comeback with younger music listeners
By Chris Otts
cotts@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal
Lyndi Curtis loves music and owns about 1,300 albums. She must have an iPod or a big CD wallet to store her collection, right?
Think again. Curtis, 22, listens almost exclusively to vinyl records, a format some thought would die with the generation that played them in 1960s and '70s.
But some in the industry say more young people are taking those old records off the shelf -- and adding new ones to it.
"Kids are definitely getting into vinyl," said John Timmons, who owns ear X-tacy, a music store on Bardstown Road in Louisville.
A main attraction of vinyl is a sound that is not as "sterile" as CDs, Curtis and others said.
"There's something so much better about having a fireplace than central heat, you know?" she said. "Albums to CDs is like, exactly that."