{"id":33720,"date":"2025-04-28T10:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33720"},"modified":"2025-04-28T09:19:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:19:44","slug":"as-i-was-sayin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/28\/as-i-was-sayin\/","title":{"rendered":"As I Was Sayin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in my post <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/27\/good-media-hunting-saturday-april-26-2025-yard-and-estate-sales\/\" target=\"_new\">this weekend<\/a> about the potential for buying CDs, DVDs, and VHSes for a buck and selling them at a profit:  <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/28\/us-news\/vhs-cassettes-find-new-life-at-nyc-event-as-analogue-enthusiasts-are-fed-up-with-streaming-services\/\" target=\"_new\">VHS, cassettes find new life at NYC event as hundreds of analogue enthusiasts are \u2018fed up with streaming services\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cassette sales have surged 440% in the last decade, per NPR, and VHS stores are on the rise \u2014 from Blockbuster\u2019s return in the UK to the opening of VHS stores from Maryland to California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a lot more appealing to the people to do that now than ever before,\u201d said Aaron Hamel, co-owner of Night Owl Video, a VHS and DVD store that opened in Williamsburg this year. \u201cI saw the record resurgence, and I feel like physical media for movies is sort of the same environment [vinyl] was 20 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the NYC Tape Fair, Night Owl Video\u2019s VHS sales included a copy of David Lynch\u2019s \u201cThe Elephant Man\u201d and \u201cLove Camp 7,\u201d which Hamel describes as a \u201cNazi exploitation movie from the 70s.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stores selling physical media will last at least as long as self-serve frozen yogurt shops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in my post this weekend about the potential for buying CDs, DVDs, and VHSes for a buck and selling them at a profit: VHS, cassettes find new life at NYC event as hundreds of analogue enthusiasts are \u2018fed up with streaming services\u2019 Cassette sales have surged 440% in the last decade, per NPR, and VHS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33722,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33720\/revisions\/33722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}