For the (Vinyl) Record

Stand by for a proud parenting moment: My kids have gotten into vinyl records.

Apparently, they’re not alone. According to a year-end report from the music-sales-data company Luminate, 43.5 million records were sold in the United States in 2022 — a 48-fold increase compared with 2006. “It’s fascinating to witness a hundred year-old technology come back from near extinction,” noted Felix Richter, a writer with the market- and consumer-data provider Statista. “Physical goods, it appears, still hold value for many people, even in the digital age.”