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Speaker 1: Gen Z is a big driver of the modern vinyl industry,

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Speaker 1: but it's possible the fate of those records isn't really

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Speaker 1: the turntable, at least not primarily.

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Speaker 2: I don't know anyone who does that, and I certainly don't. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Wayne Rogers of Stereo Jackson, Somerville was a little flabbergasted

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Speaker 1: when I told him the statistic from a leading industry group.

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Speaker 1: Thirty seven percent of gen Z buyers said they use

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Speaker 1: their records as a form of home decoration. Wayne says

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Speaker 1: young people have always wanted records, but now companies have

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Speaker 1: started to pump out more physical copies of newer artists.

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Speaker 3: When people buy a new record, they've heard it already.

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Speaker 3: That you didn't used to be the case. New record

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Speaker 3: came out, you wanted to hear it, you bought it.

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Speaker 1: The survey found gen zs sales were primarily a way

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Speaker 1: to support their favorite musicians. Wayne did say collecting records

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Speaker 1: for their art has kind of always been a thing.

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Speaker 4: The It's like, you know people who collect record covers

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Speaker 4: of records that are just terrible, and they know they are,

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Speaker 4: but they buy them for the covers and

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Speaker 1: They put them on The Wall, Kyle Shaffle debbs Boston's

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