Editor's Note: The Smell of Vinyl

I spent my teens running fingers through bins of new LPs at record supermarkets such as Tower, Sam Goody and those inside department stores. Today, just the sight of 12-inch vinyl sets my heart beating faster. [Photo above of Colony Records at the base of the famed Brill Building on 49th St. and Broadway; the store closed in 2012 and today it’s a CVS]

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