# @portlandmercury on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DYpn2-GIJot
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65882823-portlandmercury-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/c89eba5b62.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-05-22T18:05:22.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Portland Mercury (@portlandmercury) — https://gondola.cc/portlandmercury

## Caption

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. ⁠
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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). ⁠
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Full story at the link in bio. ⁠
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Cover art by Liam Eisenberg⁠
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#vinyl #recordstore #discogs #portland

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recordstore, portland, discogs, vinyl

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