According to the Recording Industry Association of America, vinyl LP sales grew slightly as a percentage of music sales from 2000 to 2006 even as overall music sales dropped to $12 billion from $14 billion.
And it's not just the classics. Such hip-hop heavyweights as Jay-Z, Linkin Park and Nas are pushing out new vinyl at a record clip, so to speak.
Independent labels producing punk, metal and other "outsider" music prefer the vinyl format as a kind of rebellion, said Dave Ignizio, owner of Square Records. Fans of those genres defiantly tell the world, "We're just still gonna buy records, I don't care what everyone else is doing."
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From Jim Kavanagh, CNN:
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