Doing Business at 33 1/3 RPM

The NY Times ran another one of their seemingly bi-annual stories on the current state of vinyl today. This one centers on the record stores currently doing business on Long Island, NY. Although it tells us nothing new about the state of the format (“They have this beautiful cover art, and they play at a much higher quality than your iPod.” Blah blah blah...yawn), it could be useful if you're curious about finding record stores currently doing business on Long Island.

ANDREW GRABOWSKI, 20, and his brother, Nick, 18, both of Centerport, have iPods. But when they get bored, they do what generations of music fans did before them: “It’s like, ‘Let’s go to the record store!’ ” Andrew said last month at the Long Island Vinyl Exchange here. Behind him was an eight-foot-high wall of shelves running the length of the store and filled with thousands of albums — not CDs, but vinyl LPs arranged with their jacket spines showing, like books in a library. Continued here.