Not too long ago an individual at a workplace had been informed that I was a user of vinyl and they approached me on the subject.
What did I learn, I now know there is a growing number of Vinyl Collectors who keep the LP in the Cellophane. They add the copies owned to Discography and track the Capitol Growth of their collection, this is a Tangible Property and is a equivalent to other currencies being invested in.
I have recently heard performers are getting the hard media interest to gain further momentum by signing copies of their merch'.
I once experienced something like this, I wanted to purchase a recently released Album and when going to pull the trigger, could not find it for sale. When it reappeared once more it was selling for £600. I'm lucky it wasn't a signed copy, who knows what the asking price would be.