Vinyl Record Day

Happy Vinyl Record Day! To many, listening to vinyl records brings back great memories with friends and family. For us, listening to vinyl records is all about the experience of taking the record out of its sleeve, putting it on the turntable, moving the needle to the right spot on the record to start playing, and then gathering around it. There is something more raw and real about the act of getting a vinyl record ready. It's a whole experience, and one meant to be shared with other people in one physical place. When you think about it like this, it's a far cry from where and how the majority of society listens to music now--with earbuds in so no one can hear it but you. Or, if it's not in that way, it ends up being on your phone using Spotify, Pandora, iTunes, and any other website that you can stream/download music from on a walk or a run, a CD or radio in the car as you're moving from Point A to Point B.

In recognizing this day, it is a call to support your local record store by buying some vinyl records from them if you have a record player. It's time to dust it off and fire that bad boy up!

Let's bring music back to being a group listening experience such as this in one physical place. This is all, of course, in addition to going to a concert where the experience is shared with thousands of people at the same time through the art of of live performance.