According to the Recording Industry Association of America<\/a>, for the first time in three decades, vinyl sales surpassed CD sales in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThey like the nostalgia and the clicks and pops,\u201d said Debats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Across the street, Jessi Zilka has made a business out of selling physical media at her store, Jesse Carl Vinyl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What started as a booth at a downtown Lakeland market in 2015, quickly turned into a brick-and-mortar store in 2016 when she saw how high the demand was for her vinyls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat was definitely just a twist of fate kind of thing. It was not what I expected,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zilka said demand increased during the COVID-19 pandemic as people were in search of a new hobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her main customer base is between the ages of 35 and 65 but also includes high schoolers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI always love to quote my favorite artist Jack White when I talk about [physical media]. He says there\u2019s a romance to having physical media because you get to look at it, you get to touch it. You can read the liner notes. You can read who produced it. You can read who played bass guitar on a certain song,\u201d said Zilka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Customer Jannette Mendez, a millennial, says she streams music but also has about 100 vinyl records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was at the store Thursday to buy a limited edition Mac Miller album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere\u2019s something to be said about having physical copies and being able to enjoy that and have like listening parties and still treasuring the old school way of listening to music,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While vinyl sales have risen slowly and steadily, Zilka said she has seen a sharp increase in CD and cassette tape sales among young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA lot of young kids are buying tapes and CDs because they\u2019re a bit cheaper and the start-up cost \u2013 you don\u2019t have to spend $200 to buy a turntable. You can spend $40 and get a Walkman,\u201d said Zilka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Customer Cozy Ayers, a Gen Zer, said she has an estimated 100 cassette tapes, many of which she was given by her father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey sound different. People say that cassette tapes are the worst way to listen to music because of that but depending on the artist, they can make it sound really interesting and you can\u2019t hear that in any other way pretty much,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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