Black gold? You're probably thinking about oil. But maybe up in your attic there is another kind of black gold - vinyl, in the form of your old LP records. And they may be worth a lot - provided that ...

For many, a 12-inch platter of vinyl, spinning 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, exemplifies how they first listened to music. But long before rock and roll, soul, and other popular music styles were ...

Last year, consumers bought more new vinyl records than CDs. It’s the first time that’s happened since 1987, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. The LP industry is booming, but ...

Last year was a pretty bleak one for the music industry. Overall album sales dropped by 8.4 percent, to 289.41 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and CD sales were down 14 percent. For the first ...

Travelling overseas for LPs, waiting a year for spare parts for turntable upgrades — record listeners have kept their passion alive through waves and crests The only way to consume music at one time, ...

Something strange is happening in attics, basements, and garage sales across the country. Those dusty record collections your parents tucked away decades ago might not just be nostalgic relics anymore ...

At a press conference in New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel in June 1948 (most likely on the 21st, though there is some dispute over the exact date), Columbia Records introduced its long-playing vinyl ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tabitha Bland and Matt Baker browse through crates of vinyl records at a booth on Second and Roosevelt streets during the First ...

The Audiophiliac matches the Audio Technica AT LP60 turntable with a pair of Audioengine A2+ speakers -- the combination really clicked! Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked ...

Record stores – the best ones – used to be hubs of communal knowledge. Some still are. They induce loitering, as fans soak up what's playing on the stereo and get an education from liner notes. But ...