Athens’ Kindercore Finds Second Life In Vinyl

Record Store Day takes place this year on April 21, and a lot of attention is paid to the artists releasing music and the stores selling it. But there is a step in between, and that is actually manufacturing the records themselves.

Here in Georgia, there’s one record pressing plant, Kindercore Vinyl in Athens, which just opened its doors last fall.

The factory sits on a hill in a rural, industrial area of Athens. With its gray concrete floors and complicated-looking machinery, it looks like they could be manufacturing anything, until you notice a guy sitting at a table on the factory floor, intently listening to a record in headphones.