Vinyl holds special meaning

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Browsing through Von's Records rack of vinyl records in Lafayette, Kokomo resident Mae Kingery looks for a good deal. Beside her, two other college students wander and browse through the section, eagerly hoping to find something new.

"I like to sit and read the lyrics while listening to the album," she said, flipping past Magnolia Electric Co. and Mogwai vinyls. "Plus, you usually get an MP3 code [to download the album online] too, so why not?"

Meanwhile, in Indianapolis at Indy CD & Vinyl, Purdue University student Austin Fleming seeks out something by Why?, a band from Los Angeles.

"Having this huge physical copy, it's rewarding," he said, pulling up the album he was looking for. "There's just this satisfaction to adding a record to your collection - it's different from owning a CD. You hardly need the original CD since you can just burn it onto a blank one. But with vinyl, you have a hard copy, and a lot of bands don't release things on vinyl. So it's unique. It's like your own."


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