Did you know that the world’s largest vinyl marketplace was founded and still headquartered in Portland? Since its Y2K launch, Discogs has blown the slipmats off the turntables as a database, vinyl marketplace, and an online community of millions of users across the globe. ⁠ ⁠ Mercury writer Ryan J. Prado gets to the tippy bottom of the discogs history with founder Kevin Lewandowski, as well as Portland-area record sellers Super-Electric Records (superelectric_records) and Records by Mail (records_by_mail). ⁠ ⁠ Full story at the link in bio. ⁠ ⁠ Cover art by Liam Eisenberg⁠ ⁠ #vinyl #recordstore #discogs #portland