Vinyl Record – Fusion Nepal

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The sound of silence hasn’t been this popular since Simon and Garfunkel.

A Kickstarter campaign for a double-sided vinyl record containing 20 minutes of silence is the latest crowd-funding project that’s making noise. Eric Antonow and his 15-year-old son, Ben, decided the world could use some quiet.

And Kickstarter supporters agree. The duo has raised roughly $4,300 — seven times more than their $600 goal to produce the record. Their Kickstarter ends Wednesday. Read more…

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We love the convenience of streaming songs as much as the next person, but we have a soft spot for vinyl records. Maybe it’s the sheer satisfaction of dropping the needle onto a smooth 45, or perhaps it’s the vintage allure of listening to the classics the way they were intended to be played, but more and more millennials are becoming proud owners of record players — and growing collections of tracks.

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