Disappearing work: how to make a vinyl record

Vinyl may have been overtaken by CDs and downloads but it still has passionate fans, with the last major plant in the UK pressing about 25,000 records a week on its 40-year-old pressesForty-year-old record presses, installed by EMI in the 70s vinyl heyday, grind noisily away, oozing hydraulic oil on to the floor. Long pipes run the length of the factory floor, carrying steam to power the presses. It's as if the digital age has never occurred.Hi-tech this is not, but über-cool niche it certainly...

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