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Take Me Vinyl sends its members one record a month - but what a record it is
Not one but two people running vinyl subscription clubs use the phrase “survivor’s guilt” to describe their emotions over the past year. Where other businesses have struggled, these record clubs – which once a month, or once a quarter, send you a record or two over which you usually have little or no choice – have thrived, as people stuck at home have adjusted to finding pleasure in their immediate locale.
Mike Theodoulou, who runs the small UK-based club Wax and Stamp, says his subscriber base grew by 300 per cent between May and December 2020. Cameron Schaefer and Nick Alt, CEOs of the US giants Vinyl Me Please and VNYL, reckon they each shipped around half a million albums last year. Vinyl has had a very good pandemic.
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