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Digilog Culture and the Vinyl Revival of the Early 21st Century
Few mass produced consumer goods signify authenticity to today’s purchasers so richly as a vinyl record. As the New York Times put it, “It is so much a cliché of early 21st century hipster life that the locavore…in Lisa Cholodenko’s film ‘The Kids Are All Right’ is defined as muchRead More…
How is the Value of Vinyl Records Increasing?
The advent of music-sharing websites contributed to a new generation of record collectors dedicated to preserving the symbolic-exchange value of rare vinyl records. In “The Fetishism of the Commodity and Its Secret,” Marx explains that term “symbolic-exchange value” refers to “the exchange of objects as a symbol of a socialRead More…
For the record: Carroll Gardens photographer captures vinyl lovers’ collections
Take this book for a spin. A Carroll Gardens photographer is releasing a book of images that peer into the lives of vinyl fetishists — the record-collecting kind — and you can get your hands on an initial pressing during the book’s launch party at Dumbo’s PowerHouse Arena on AprilRead More…
The Uncomfortable Gender Politics of “My Husband’s Stupid Record Collection”
Cohabitation: it’s an endless series of compromises, all supposedly worthwhile in the name of true love and cheaper rent. We don’t just share our homes and beds with our spouses and significant others — we also share a lifetime’s worth of possessions, and the obsessions that drive us to amassRead More…
Vinyl for Hipsters vs. Vinyl for High Holy Days: Or, “Old School Columbia Records”
Vinyl records capture the imagination. In my hometown of Olympia, Washington, independent craft artists fashion bowls to and household items out of vinyl, appealing to the local indie market. In Brooklyn, the hipster set has revived an interest in vinyl records. I, too, have always seen the charm in theRead More…