Contrary to everything we’ve been told about the decline and fall of the brick-and-mortar recording industry, indie music stores are thriving in Chicago. What’s the secret? A return to vinyl. “It’s a quest for tangibility that is, in some ways, driving the vinyl craze. To some music lovers, CDs, at about 16 grams, feel less substantial than a 180-gram audiophile vinyl record… There’s something alternative, even subversive, about vinyl, especially when everybody is carrying around iPods.”