Interesting trend overall. I got my dad a vinyl record for Christmas, and he only recently got a record player to listen to it. I wonder about vinyl buying vs listening demographics and how age correlates: my partner and I, along with some similar-generation friends, are avid vinyl listeners. We still use Spotify to listen to music together, either collaborative or generated playlists, and we generally set a high standard of matching the music we select to our mood, but the process of discovering and listening to records together has become one that we treat differently from digital listening. We are more forgiving and open (less “you picked this?” and more going with the flow) and have some irreverent discs that have established themselves as favorites through this process :)
Interesting trend overall. I got my dad a vinyl record for Christmas, and he only recently got a record player to listen to it. I wonder about vinyl buying vs listening demographics and how age correlates: my partner and I, along with some similar-generation friends, are avid vinyl listeners. We still use Spotify to listen to music together, either collaborative or generated playlists, and we generally set a high standard of matching the music we select to our mood, but the process of discovering and listening to records together has become one that we treat differently from digital listening. We are more forgiving and open (less “you picked this?” and more going with the flow) and have some irreverent discs that have established themselves as favorites through this process :)