Here's an article from the New York Times covering the resurgence of vinyl in the last few years. Check it out here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/fashion/31vinyl.html.

Country singer Patsy Cline is killed in a plane crash at the height of her career. Over 25,000 people attended the singer's funeral.

Buddy Holly in Concert...

Here's a little bonus... Enjoy!

Related to the never-ending debate over the quality of music on vinyl vs. compact disc, research done by a Canadian scientist reports that "teens who used to view CDs as superior to older vinyl records now consider vinyl superior to the newer format." The rest of the article can be read here, and if that's not enough, comments and discussion on the report  are available here.

The Spring 2006 Austin Record Convention was held last weekend. The University Star has a recap in an article titled Tables turned on record collecting at Austin Record Convention. There was also early coverage from Kilgore News Herald and News 8 Austin.

Here's some (five to be exact) interesting record collecting related articles that I've come across in the last few weeks.

• Every record collection has its roots in a moment of complicated joy. We hear a song, and it makes us happy. We want to hear it again; we want to feel the same feeling as the first time we heard it. The easy solution is to acquire a copy of the song, so we can bring back that feeling or something like that feeling whenever we want. (The feeling is never exactly the same. Sometimes it degrades, at one rate or another, over time and repeated experience. But sometimes it stays very similar.) Read the full article from Seattle Weekly.