By Marc Rice
For music fans, every new change in technology seems to push the days of LPs and CDs further back into that corner of the past where rotary phones keep company with manual typewriters.
Even digital downloads, which not so long ago revolutionized the music business, are having a hard time keeping up. Forbes magazine reports that on-demand audio streaming zoomed past digital for the top share of music sales in 2016.
So why was the Bessemer Civic Center full of people this past weekend, crowded into cramped aisles and snapping up vinyl albums and the smaller “singles” known as 45s as if it were still the heyday of the Beatles, Doors and Cream?The Alabama Record Collectors Association CD & Record Show, now in its 36th year, is evidence that, for some people at least, vinyl still rules.
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