Whole Foods Is Selling LPs Now

Whole Foods Is Selling LPs Now

33⅓ rpm records have been around for 65 years and in that time they’ve come and gone. And come back again. Apparently the nation’s few remaining record stores, stamped out by lack of demand, are suddenly not enough, so Whole Foods has begun selling vinyl at five locations in and around LA, including West Hollywood, Santa Barbara and Venice. Even the New York Public Library, though not known to make money off of, well, anything, missed out on the resurgence by about a week.

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