Vinyl fetish

[tikistitch]

We know we're being Luddite, but this is just kind of awesome....

Some retailers give vinyl records a spin

PORTLAND, ORE. -- It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.

This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release "Accelerate" inadvertently entered the "LP" code instead. Soon boxes of vinyl discs showed up at several stores.

Some sent them back. But a handful put them on the shelves, and 20 LPs sold the first day.

The Portland-based company, owned by the Kroger Co., realized the error might not be so bad after all. Fred Meyer is now testing vinyl sales at 60 of its stores in Oregon, Washington and Alaska. The company says it plans to roll out vinyl in July in all its stores that sell music.

Comments

[seanyoda.livejournal.com]

I've seen vinyl on sale at a couple of Costco locations. I still own some vinyl; I need to get a decent turntable.

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

I was actually in an FM in Olympia a couple weeks ago, and they had LPs. It was strange seeing them; my immediate reaction was, "What are these, laserdisks? ... Oh, they're RECORDS!" They had a small portable record player for sale too at the same location.

[dark-skada.livejournal.com]

It's actually really cool they started carrying them. I love LPs! I was really excited when Hot Topic started carrying them, and I bet FM is gunna be way cheaper....