Vinyl Records In Hot Demand Ahead of Record Store Day, CTV NEWS Report by Stephane Giroux
- The Metal Voice
- Apr 14
- 2 min read
At Drummondvinyl in Drummondville, Que., staff can’t keep up with the demand for vinyl records, according to the company’s co-founder, Jeff Beaulieu.
Report by Stephane Giroux, on CTV NEWS
“I call it the digital detox,” he explained. ”It creates a moment, which I think the digital world cannot compete against because when you put a vinyl on, all of a sudden everything is aligned with this.”
Beaulieu and fellow musician Alex Henry Foster launched the company three years ago out of necessity for their own band, saying the waitlist for existing pressing plants was too long.
“For us, it wasn’t about market and demand,” said Beaulieu. ”It was because we realized we wanted to do our own vinyl and that we needed to wait a whole year to do it, which we couldn’t afford because you need to go on tour.”
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Vinyl pressing plants have been opening across Canada to meet increasing demands, including the Precision Record in Burlington, Ont., Microforum in Toronto, Ont. and Clampdown Record Pressing in Vancouver, B.C.
Pryia Panda, spokesperson for Canada’s annual Record Store Day, says the trend is consistent.
“I think it brings all age groups to the record stores,” she said. ”There are ten-year-olds. There are people who are 80-years-old in line. We’ve seen it all over the last 18 years.”
This year’s Record Store Day is set for April 18, and labels, big and small, have said they are planning to push rare, limited-edition reissues.
Some of the sought-after titles include Joni Mitchell’s For the Roses, Cemetery by 80s Montreal punk band Deja Voodoo, Quebec rockers Offenbach, and Honeymoon Suite’s long-out-of-print greatest hits package.
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