The vinyl resurgence is good news for emerging artists. They can make $2 to $3 per LP, whereas they see one dollar for every 10,000 downloads. That means they could make as much on a 2500-album run as from 60 million downloaded singles.
The hipsters are my allies. Thanks to them the Technics SL12x0 series stayed in production until 2010. In 2007 I bought a new SL1210 M5G for $500.
Likewise, in 2008 I took a fancy to fedoras. I don't buy the little stingy brim straw or cloth trilbies the hipsters wear; I wear full-size fedoras made of fur felt. But thanks to all the hipsters and their ubiquitous hats, I have no trouble finding the hats *I* want, and nobody looks at me funny for wearing them.
