Who's Pressing Your Records?
Joe Svetlik | Published on 11/1/2026
"People with sinister motives will try to exploit demand and the love people have for the format" – an industry expert tells us how the vinyl revival is under threat from counterfeit records
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Somewhere in a west London warehouse, four record presses from the 1950s spent seven years cranking out fake Beatles, Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran LPs. By the time police shut it down, the operation had made £2.7 million and left behind 18 tons of evidence, and its owner is now serving three and a half years. Joe Svetlik at What Hi-Fi? talks to the people who tracked him down about why knock-off vinyl matters even if you’d never buy one, why they think the tide may be turning, and the easiest way to keep fakes out of your collection.
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