Vinyl Age: A Guide to Record Collecting Now

Description

Today, Vinyl is shorthand for cool. Even with millions of songs available at the click of a mouse, music fans know that there's nothing like the tactile pleasure of a record. And, rather than killing vinyl, digital technology has elevated the art of record collecting into a new and vibrant age. Vinyl Age is the definitive record collecting guidebook for the digital era. Written by expert Max Brzezinski and his highly experienced colleagues at Carolina Soul, Vinyl Age combines an engaging narrative, incisive analysis, and a modern design to reveal the joys and explain the complexities of the contemporary vinyl scene. For aspiring crate diggers, this guide will provide an invaluable big-picture understanding of the vinyl economy, while OG vinyl heads will discover nascent musical genres, new breeds of collector, and models for adapting to the future of record collecting. To the rest of us, Vinyl Age offers an anatomy of an iconic medium and its growing subculture, its rapid transformation and lasting appeal.

Max Brzezinski is the marketing director at Carolina Soul. He holds a PhD in English modernism from Duke University, and was previously an English professor at Wake Forest University. His literary essays and reviews have appeared in Novel and The Minnesota Review, and his music reviews in Dusted magazine. A long-time DJ, he hosts Carolina Soul's radio broadcast monthly. He lives in Durham, North Carolina. Carolina Soul, based in Durham, North Carolina, is one of the world's largest high-end record sellers, moving over a thousand pieces a week through their brick-and-mortar location in downtown Durham and far-reaching presence in the thriving vinyl community online. They've got a highly engaged cult following on Instagram, as well as a long-running radio show on NTS, an online radio station with 624,000 unique listeners per month.