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Vinyl records being popular again is very cool and not a comeback I would have ever expected. What's really interesting to me is how much better quality they are than in previous decades.
Records had been around for a century (vinyl for about 40 years) by the time they were phased out of mainstream music distribution in the late 80's. Over time, manufacturers used cheaper and thinner vinyl to the point where they were just complete and utter shit.
The ones they put out today are thicker and closer to audiophile grade than their predecessors.
Hasn't vinyl been around longer than 1985?
I suddenly feel old, doing the math wasn't nice to me
They're saying that by the late 80s when cassettes and CDs ultimately replaced the record, records had been in use for over a century, and the recognizable 12" disc format had been in use for 40 years prior to their replacement.
Oh duh, I misread that