Vinyl countdown: how do three new subscription services stack up?

A new breed of subscription record clubs has sprung up, offering vinyl albums accompanied by handwritten notes and cocktail recipes. But are they any good?To some, vinyl has become a signifier of hipster pretentiousness at its most egregious. In a recent Pepsi Max advert, a man in braces, a henley shirt and black rimmed glasses purrs the line “it sounds so much better on vinyl”, before being drenched in a wheatgrass milkshake as a comeuppance for his effete declaration. In Noah Baumb