So World Record Store Day is here once again. And what a year it’s been.

At the end of 2016, it was widely reported that vinyl album sales had surpassed digital downloads for the first time ever.

New artists as well as established bands now release vinyl as a matter of course. Entire back catalogues are being hastily re-pressed. Last month, Crypt Of The Wizard Records, a shop for “discerning heavy metal maniacs” opened in East London. The most discerning DJs are offering “vinyl-only” sets. Newly founded record company Omerta Inc is only selling vinyl.

It’s brilliant, it’s lovely, it’s a black and silky finger to the dastardly demi-lords of digital world domination.

Yet, according to a BBC/ICM poll from last year, 41 per cent of people who buy vinyl have a turntable but do not use it, with 7 per cent of vinyl buyers not even owning a turntable.

So, something is amiss. After all, a vinyl record often sets the purchaser back a not very cool £20-£30.