Vinyl Record Day August 12th
There’s an interesting site: www.vinylrecordday.org that’s dedicated to “the Preservation of the Cultural Influence, the Recordings and the Cover Art of the Vinyl Record“ and “promoting the future of vinyl”.
August 12th is the date recognised as the day Edison invented the phonograph.
It’s American, so active participation by VOTN won’t be possible, but it’s an [...]
Postal Strike
Well today sees the start of two weeks of industrial action by the postmen.
However, it’s not as bad as it seems as only one sorting office is being affected on each day and ours is Saturday which is the quietest day of the week so it’ll make very little difference to VinylOnTheNet.
The strike may delay receipt of [...]
The Start Of Vinyl On The Net
I started trading professionally in 1982 mainly selling via Record Collector magazine. With the advent of the internet I transfered the business there, setting up a site which like so many of the early sites had a very long winded and useless domain name — in fact I can’t even remember what it was!
Realising that [...]