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On Friday, 24-year-old Tayra McDaniels will scamper down the stairs of her East Village apartment building and pick up four preordered vinyl editions of Taylor Swift's new album, "The Life of a Showgirl" — each a different color and with a different collectible cover. Then she'll head over to Target to snag three more exclusive CDs and another vinyl, she said.

The haul will cost her more than $200. "I know it's a lot of money," she said. "But I don't want to miss out."

One point of reprieve in the price: McDaniels and other vinyl fans won't have to worry about tariffs on their hauls.

Vinyl records, CDs and cassettes were spared from the Trump administration's late-August rollback of the "de minimis" e

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