A woman has told of her horror after she mistakenly flogged a set of first press vinyl records for less than £1 each. Rohan Mellor described the 60s and 70s records, sold to a man at the event in Rowsley, Derbyshire, on Sunday for £15.50 as “irreplaceable”.   https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/vinyl-records-car-boot-sale-b2109473.html

Captivated by major new releases from Taylor Swift, Coldplay and Billie Eilish, music fans in the UK spent more on recorded music in 2024 than ever before, new figures show. Streaming subscriptions and vinyl sales shot up, with consumers spending a total of £2.4 bn over the last 12 months. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7rl3z3jmzo

As LP sales boom in the UK, so has the illegal trade in poor-quality fakes. But the record detectives are fighting back. https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jun/15/vinyl-came-back-from-the-dead-and-so-did-the-bootleggers-inside-the-booming-business-of-knock-off-records