Vinyl records were the most popular music medium for decades with sales peaking close to 350 million units in the U.S. in 1978. But the advent of the CD and digital technologies in the early 1990s caused a significant drop, and vinyl all but disappeared for 20 years. Recent resurgence of interest in the 2020s has brought vinyl back from the dead with 46.8 million sales in 2025. So, you were a bit hasty in stapling those records to the wall, weren’t you?

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