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Should you hang on to those 1910 Fruit Gum Company records? According to a recent issue of Newsweek, vinyl records are enjoying a resurgence.
Supposedly, a new generation is being drawn to wax-notably, vintage releases-because they are cheaper than CDs.
But Jim Mayhercy, owner of 2nd Hand Tunes at 2604 N. Clark St. and 818 Dempster in Evanston-both all-vinyl record stores-disagrees.
“There are people-many of them young-who don’t have much money,” he says. “But resurgence? There’s no resurgence. I have tons of 99-cent LPs, but the market for them is getting less and less . . . A sizeable percentage of my customers are Europeans, Japanese and serious collectors. The `casual consumer’ has generally abandoned records.”
