Black gold? You're probably thinking about oil. But maybe up in your attic there is another kind of black gold - vinyl, in the form of your old LP records. And they may be worth a lot - provided ...

An airbrush artist suggested that old vinyl from billboard advertising “like you see on the sides of the interstates, Budweiser, Chevrolet, Coca-Cola,” would make good drop cloths for painting ...

About 1 in 5 use vinyl records, a number I frankly thought ... Tom Hanks has a high-profile fondness for the clickety-clack virtues of old-school typewriters, but he’s in a small minority ...