Vinyl Records Make A Great Mini-site
Some have been saying this all along: vinyl has never died. I even own about 20 albums, but am currently without a player. Small corner music stores never gave up, and neither did their customers. Many people feel that vinyl has a purer sound, despite all it’s imperfections.
Now, big retail wants a bite: according to a recent story from the AP via CNN, vinyl is back!
The article cites a Fred Meyers chain in Oregon where an employee accidentally ordered the LP version of R.E.M.’s new album for multiple stores. Some stores sent them back while others put them on the floor. Those sold out their inventory.
Nielsen SoundScan estimates that vinyl sales will climb 60% to 1.6 million in 2008. 60%!
If major labels and big retailers are backing this- and they are- you can bet that it will surge.
This niche would do well on a mini-site, with article titles that go something like this:
- The different speeds of vinyl
- Vintage vinyl collecting
- New vinyl for sale (with affiliate links)
- Converting vinyl to MP3
- Listings of small corner music stores that sell vinyl
The best of all, “vinyl” is not trademarked, so there is plenty of freedom when registering domain names. Now, don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying that it’s going to be HUGE. I’m just saying that it’s about to go through a growth period and you have time to capitalize on it.
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The most valuable vinyl is the record in the original sleeve that has never been played:
http://fragerfactor.blogspot.com/2008/01/got-saturday-night-fever.html
Actulally, we were never asked whether we wanted to switch to the newest digital technologies. My old good vinyl player is still in a working condition. So what? The problem is to find a head for its tonarm! It used to be priced for only several bucks!!! But industry simply stopped to produce those heads…
In result, the only way to to play my old records nowadays is through buying a completely new vinyl player, — priced from $1000 and up!
It is good to know that I am not the only one still crazy about Vinyls. I have thousands of them in the storage house. It is a niche market and I agree that minisites could serve that purpose. I think if you have the word “vinyl” in your slogan that could do too. I could do something with my MaestroBeats.com, JumboBeats.com for their mastery as vinyl is still the king. Or DustKickers.com for digging the records out of the crates…you know what I mean
My wife is still crazy about her vinyl, not to mention she has some old stuff that never made it to CD and we can’t find any mp3’s.
But you bring up a great idea to add to a vinyl site; a traders forum where people can buy/sell/trade old vinyl, players and player parts.