Creative Review- 'Vinyl frontier'

An article I read recently that I thought to be interesting was one on BBC News, linked from another page, under the tagline 'Vinyl Frontier'. The article was written in correlation with the recent event "Record Store day"- 'a celebration of popular music culture with particular appeal for those who collect rare vinyl releases'. The event is international, and sees a vast array of limited edition vinyl records by a plethora of artists released all on one day, at independant record stores. I attended a participating store in Manchester on the day to pick up a record; my four-hour wait in a line, wrapping around the block attests to the event's massive popularity, which is the topic the article addresses. Vinyl has been seen to be an archaic format in decline, 'doomed to extinction' along with even CDs and all physical formats- as indicated by the collapse of HMV... however, things appear to have been changing recently. The story reports a large increase in vinyl album sales since 2008, and the massive popularity of Record Store Day served to kill any doubt of this. I find this trend to be interesting, because it seems to defy the widespread fears of a kind of 'digital revolution'... the death of the physical, and rise of the digital- with both music and art. As a collector in general, I love to own physical copies of the music I like, and I feel the vinyl record is the greatest format- the album artwork on a satisfying 12"x12" scale, and the record itself as an object of interest and ceremony, as opposed to a disposable digital file. Perhaps this rise in popularity is a reflection of a general resurgance in the value placed on physically owning art, which is surely great news for most.