Youth enjoying the vinyl vibe

Long-playing (LP) records, previously collectors' items of the older generation, are now popular among young people.

- Linda Sparg

This is according to a Mossel Bay secondhand store owner, Benjamin Nel. He has a large shop, more like a warehouse, in the town centre.

Nel says some of the youth have a vintage LP player from a grandfather and they enjoy playing records.

Music they are looking for is mainly classic rock and pop, such as the albums of The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Queen, Bryan Adams and more.

Records are put to all sorts of other uses. One of Nel's customers uses them to make handbags, combining them with leather. Records are used for home and wedding decor as well.

"I have LPs priced from R10 right through to R600." He regularly checks the value of various albums on the internet.

"Some fetch $50 000," Nel says.

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