This is a piece I wrote that was featured on the Oregonian's website and NPR's 'This I Believe.'
I’m looking at a milk crate full of vinyl records. There are probably about 30 LPs in this worn, baby blue crate. While many of these records are over 40 years old, they are my newest musical purchases, most having been acquired in the past few months.
I worked at Music Millennium Northwest until it went out of business two years ago. It had been around since 1969. It survived transitions from records to 8-tracks to tapes to CD's, but it finally met its match with the MP3.
