"Keith G" wrote in message
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Don't hold me to these figures but I believe the recent UK sales have
been along the following lines:

2001 - £178,000 (approx)

2005 - over a £million!

Low and behold Keith, on an Aussie TV news channel tonight I started
recording to hard drive just as the announcer was stating that 178,000
records were sold in the year in Aussie 5 years ago. Current sales were said
to exceed 1,000,000/year and demand is climbing. The new buyers were said to
be young people who are replacing their CD collection with vinyl. They went
on to say there is only one press operational in Australia to meet demand.

I have a young bloke in Sydney who plays Jazz around the venues and he and
his mates (musicians) all play vinyl, although, I wasn't impressed with the
standard of son's turntable last time I looked.