A lot of people are making videos about vinyl these days…a practice I’d like to encourage by promoting them here. Sure, a lot of them are collectors talking to other collectors about, um, collecting. But any interest in living la vida vinyl is a damn good thing.

Floating around on YouTube, you might run into this little podcast about, “the resurgence of vinyl sales and its impact on the music industry” by Stephen Babcock, Mike Thal, and Jeanette Wall. While there is an awful lot of classic butt-rock featured in this and not really a LOT about the actual vinyl’s impact on the industry (apart from rising sales stats) it is REALLY gratifying to see people geeking out over vinyl records.

And not just a bunch of fogey-ish collectors, either. Make no mistake–there is nothing wrong with being a record collecting fogey, exactly the opposite, but seeing a new crop of young, excited faces proclaiming their love for records is a sure sign that LPs aren’t going away…ever?

…by the same token, the voices of record fogeys are a damn fine thing when they speak clearly and intelligently about all things vinyl. I love the take on record collecting presented in this YouTube clip by WatchMojo.com, though I am bewildered by the “How To Collect Vinyl Records” title–there is minimal how-to going on here thankfully –do we REALLY need a primer on this? But it’s good to get the vinyl seller’s side.

If you know of any vinyl-related YouTube clips, I’d love to get links…share!

–Joe Wallace