Hard To Find Music Is More Widely Available With Increasing Demand by David Stack - November 5, 2008 Strange, because hard-to-find music these days are getting a lot easier to find. Remember those singles of The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan, which you used to buy in record stores and came in colorful sleeves but which, as the digital age was ushered in, had been suddenly out of print? No one else might remember, but it remains in your head. Well, if you are one of those nostalgic music consumers who have long been looking for them, then fret no more. Because hard to find music is becoming more and more available – through various sources. Independent record stores are rolling them out once more. And resellers are putting up their old collection of albums and singles through garage sales or via online auction sites. Vinyl LPs are also making a comeback in Europe and America, and audiophiles are clamoring more and more insistently for those flat discs and amazingly natural sound reproduction quality. MusicStack.com, for example, is one of the world’s most reliable online music retailers, helping music consumers and audiophiles locate hard to find music online, as well as rare LPs, rare CDs, used vinyl records, out-of-print records and albums. Established in 1997, the website is a music shopping online portal for over 3,500 record stores from all over the world. While members of the iPod Nano and MP3 generation are still looking at the Web for the free downloading and acquisition of music, those who have known the glory days of LPs and 7-inch singles are aware of how precious these kinds of hard to find, out of print music is. Only now, they are balancing the trend by staying old-fashioned and by demanding more of non-digital audio. Why are enthusiastic supporters staying loyal to analog audio? “The sound quality is best,” says Eugene Smith of London, whose first record was Paper Roses by Marie Osmond. “The reason why I would choose vinyl records, no matter how hard they are to find these days, over CDs or audio cassettes is because they are very faithful to the actual production of the music. Also, hard to find music comes in classic forms, such as the bulky but colorful vinyl LPs that one just does not see enough of anymore in record stores. This “old” technology brought pioneering developments in recording technology, but one’s music collection may be a very good indication of one’s taste, preferences, and style in music. From the multi-colored sleeves (either flipback or laminated) to the glittery jackets, vinyl music is simply in a class of its own: a lot sexier, a lot more stylish, a lot more prestigious, and a lot more authentic to the craft than is any iPod Nano playlist or CD artwork. Making hard to find music even more prestigious is that possession of them signifies a kind of musical tribute to the stylistic and cultural revolutions of eras past – the Fifties, the Sixties, the Seventies, the Eighties, and the Nineties.     David Stack Developer of MusicStack. Serial internet entrepreneur. Loves music, especially shoegaze, synthpop and chillout.  Subscribe to Latest Articles

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Phil Walker November 6, 2008 8:18 AM Dear Dave, Just read your new 'blog' on MusicStack and the link to the article on the demise of independent record stores. It's the same here in the U.K. except that Record Fairs are becoming the new 'Independent Record Stores (!) for collectors to meet, talk, buy and generally keep the collecting scene alive and vibrant. You, with MusicStack, are also playing no small part in this whole scene. I mention MusicStack to all my collector friends, most of whom (shame on them!) had never heard of you! They have now(!) and think yours is the best site (of it's kind) on the globe. It certainly has been a huge support to my little business. Keep on spinning!

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