Are we burning out, or just longing for simpler times?

That is the question worth asking as a generation raised on taping the mixes off Radio 1, whilst we quietly rebuild our record shelves. I’ve been getting an enourmous amount of press releases lately on retro tech, ie: CD players, mp3 players, turntables, even mobile phones aka Commodores latest release, so I started doing some digging on some stats behind it all. Gen X started this, and the numbers back it up. Research from Back Market in 2025, surveying 2,000 people in the UK, found that 71 per cent had a piece of retro tech they wished they had owned as a child, and 45 per cent now plan to buy a vintage device. Nostalgia was…