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The word 'vinyl' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type of record made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). For example: "I bought a vintage copy of the Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed on vinyl."
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vinyl
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The univalent radical CH2=CH−, derived from ethylene
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Before homogenization, when there was mystery, before aggregation, when the original had value, before digital, when there was vinyl, before Made in China, when there was Mao, before stress management, when there was romance, we had the impression we were doing all right.
"If 1,600 people want vinyl, i'll make 1,600 vinyl.
The ancient race of vinyl enthusiasts who had once haunted record stores and swap meets was dying out, superseded by a mutant breed of torrent obsessives.
There will always be some demand for print, like there is a niche market for vinyl records.
A good place to start is the long-running ernienotbert.blogspot.com, which offers remastered gems from a seemingly inexhaustible collection of rare, vintage Christmas vinyl.
The 2014 figure is another big leap on the previous year, when 780,000 vinyl records were sold.
The biggest selling vinyl LP of 2014 is Arctic Monkeys' AM, followed by Lazaretto by Jack White and The Endless River by Pink Floyd, which became the fastest-selling vinyl LP of the century with 6,000 first week sales.
The chief executive of Official Charts, Martin Talbot, talked up the £20m revenues from vinyl this year, calling them "an incredible turnaround from barely £3m just five years ago" – though vinyl still only accounts for 2% of the overall music market in the UK.
The environment in which Thorgeson did much of his work now seems comically old-fashioned, not just in terms of the glorious canvas provided by the 12-inch vinyl record, but the people with whom he had to deal.
Though the film has already built an underground following among the young on social media, I think some of them are going to have a hard time getting their heads around this concept of a vinyl "coverup".
In the Northern Soul movie, the plot turns on a vinyl record that a DJ has "covered up" – hiding the title and the artist so neither the dancers or rival DJs can find it.
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