Black gold? You're probably thinking about oil. But maybe up in your attic there is another kind of black gold - vinyl, in the form of your old LP records. And they may be worth a lot - provided that ...

Vinyl keeps winning big. In 2025, U.S. buyers snapped up 47.9 million units, an 8.6% jump that marked the 19th year of steady ...

Nobody seriously saw this coming. Back in the early 2000s, if you had told a music executive that vinyl records would one day outsell CDs again, you would have been laughed out of the room. The format ...

A new company, Tiny Vinyl, is producing collectible four-inch vinyl records. The records will feature a variety of artists, from legacy acts to current chart-toppers. Tiny Vinyl aims to capitalize on ...

Guadalupe Herrera stacks albums onto a spindle to cool at Erika Records in Buena Park. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) When Liz Dunster, known to friends as Vinyl Mama, moves through Erika ...

Music lovers who swear by vinyl LPs always want to add another disc to the stack and Record Store Day on April 12 is a day to get some coveted special releases. Vinyl remains a special format for many ...

In one sense, Tuesday’s release of the complete mono catalog of the Beatles on vinyl LPs is the most technologically ambitious attempt yet to take what is arguably the most significant body of ...

There are plenty of reasons to consider collecting and playing LPs of your favorite music. Saving money isn’t one of them. By David Renard David Renard’s record collection started when he “borrowed” ...

If your affection for sound quality has started to compete with your affection for music itself, you may have entered the early stages of audiophilia. Should the condition advance, you will likely ...

Vinyl records themselves are often more expensive than digital downloads. Caveat: If you’re intending to purchase a turntable so you can listen to your old Crosby, Stills & Nash LPs, you might want to ...