Best Buy Going For Warmer, Fuller Sound

Dan Gibson | July 8, 2008 2:00 am
Hey, independent music stores: Did you think for a minute you had the vinyl market to yourselves? With the vinyl market as the only physical portion of the biz that improved last year (nearly a million new vinyl albums were sold, up 15 percent), did you think the big boys wouldn’t notice? Well, they have: Best Buy is looking into the vinyl biz, testing the format in several of their stores. Obviously, Best Buy doesn’t expect record sales to become a huge portion of their business, but at very least, it keeps kids out of those pesky local stores. [Minneapolis Star Tribune]