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The Columbia women’s crew record holder is heading to Paris with Team USA.

Buck at fall practice at the Caspersen Rowing Center at Mercer Lake in New Jersey.

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On that July evening in 2021, they stared at a TV screen in a raucous bar in Nyack, N.Y., as Buck and her seven fellow oarswomen stroked and stroked and stroked some more, desperate to catch the three boats leading the women’s eight rowing final of the Tokyo Olympics. The United States had dominated this event for years, winning gold in 2008, 2012 and 2016. That domination was now in jeopardy on the waters of Tokyo Bay.

It was Buck’s first Olympics, and before the race began, Roger and Sharon kept their expectations for the team — and their daughter, competing in her first Olympics — guarded. “There was a good chance they would medal,” Roger, a geophysics professor at Columbia since 1984, recalls during a recent conversation. Sharon, who graduated from VPS in 1988, cuts in, “A good chance, but no guarantee.”

As the race drew to a close, so did the cheering in the bar. The American boat ended up in fourth. There would be no victory, no medal. Sharon and Roger, clad in matching white T-shirts emblazoned with a crimson rising sun, looked blankly at the screen. In a few hours they would take a phone call from the younger of their two daughters. “She was pretty crushed,” Sharon says. Were there tears? “Yes.”

Three years later, Buck has turned disappointment into resolve. This summer, at the Paris Olympics, she will once again be on the American rowing team, and this time she won’t need to phone home. Her parents and her older sister, Suzanna ’14, expect to be at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium, rooting her on. If all goes according to plan, they’ll see Buck and her teammates reclaim their sport’s top podium position. “I’ve ticked off the box and become an Olympian,” Buck says, “but I want to medal. I’d really like a gold medal.”

At the Olympic village during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, left to right: Katelin Guregian (coxswain), Kristine O’Brien, Meghan Musnicki, Regina Salmons, Olivia Coffey, Brooke Mooney, Gia Doonan, Buck and Jess Thoennes.

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Such a lofty goal would have seemed ludicrous when Buck entered the College. She joined crew as a walk-on. “The reason I did it was to have friends; it wasn’t to be the best,” Buck says, smiling. Athletics had played only a bit part while growing up in Nyack. She was known mostly for performing in a children’s Shakespeare company. Her parents call her bookish; Sam Warren ’13, the Columbia crew’s associate head coach, doesn’t disagree. “I don’t want to call her a nerd because I know she’ll get mad at me, but she is not your average Olympic athlete,” Warren says.

If Buck’s résumé was thin — she began rowing a month before Orientation — her presence was hard to miss. Six feet tall and broad-shouldered, she had the specs for the sport. She soon showed she also had the stamina — surviving the 6 a.m. practices, the commute to the 218th Street boathouse, the frigid training on the Harlem River — and the strength for it. In fact, Buck owns the Columbia women’s record for doing a 2,000m row in 6:49. “When she was able to break 7 minutes pretty easily, that’s when we knew [of her potential],” says Warren, who coached Buck during her junior and senior years. “That really separates you from most post college-level students.”

Buck acknowledges that rowing provided an outlet for her strength and competitive nature. A subtlety of the sport, though, stirred her obsession. “When you’re rowing well and it feels perfect and you’re in time with all your teammates, nothing feels better. It feels almost magical,” Buck says. “I always keep chasing that moment of perfection.”

After graduation, Buck had more chase in her. For much of the next two years, she trained mostly on her own. The work paid off when she won a spot on the Tokyo squad, becoming just the second Columbia woman to make an Olympic rowing team. (The other was Stacey Borgman BC’98 in 2004.) The day Buck learned she and her teammates were Olympians, “tears streamed down our faces. It was sheer relief and excitement and just exhaustion. I called my college coaches, my parents, everyone. I was like, ‘Guys, I made it!’”

Buck (right) with coxswain Nina Castagna on Mercer Lake.

“Because of the mass that has to get moving and the endurance needed to keep your speed,” Ishizuka explains, “races are usually decided, at least in terms of medals, within 250 to 500 meters of the start.” But he watched as the American boat “clawed” its way through the last 500 meters to get the silver medal and an Olympic bid. “That is virtually unheard of, especially in an eight-race of any level.” Positioned in the stroke seat, Buck was the one setting the come-from-behind pace.

Weeks later, at a banquet in New York City, Ishizuka had the chance to talk with Buck about the comeback. “How in the world did you do that?” he asked. “We just had the confidence,” she told him. “We knew we could do it even when we were so far behind.”

The World Championships finish secured the American boat’s place in Paris. Like her teammates, though, Buck would not know for seven months if she had nailed her own Olympic spot. That meant more 6 a.m. practices, weeks of high-altitude training and daily assessments from coaches — all while holding down a part-time sales analyst job with a fintech company. The reward came in April when Buck got the news: Her coaches had selected her for the American team. “It’s crazy, it’s ridiculous,” she says. “My mom keeps telling me that I used to be a couch potato. What happened? I don’t know. Sometimes you just keep putting one foot in front of the other and you end up an Olympian. Nobody would have predicted it.”

Buck won’t make ironclad predictions about Paris; results from Tokyo proved nothing is for sure. What the one-time walk-on does know is she’ll be in the stroke position of the women’s eight-boat. She’s the rower closest to the coxswain, the one setting the pace. “We can do it,” she says, “if we have the race that lives up to our potential.” Asked to clarify “do it,” Buck adds without hesitation, “Gold medal. That’s my goal.”

Charles Butler ’85, JRN’99 is a journalism professor at the University of Oregon. He is researching a book on Lou Little.

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Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, K-Pop Acts See a Huge Boost in 2024 Sales With ‘Variants’: The Same Album in Different Packages

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Exclusive bonus tracks… Five different shades of vinyl… Tour booklet with exclusive photos… “Fans First” exclusive picture disc… Boxed set with candle, hoodie and CD… Target exclusive, Amazon exclusive, Urban Outfitters exclusive… exclusive exclusive exclusive…

Rodrigo is no slouch either, with at least a dozen variants in the vinyl format alone of her “Guts” album, which is currently at No. 26 on the Billboard 200 some 44 weeks after its release last September. Her label and team played the game masterfully, releasing multiple variants of the album on differently colored vinyl with one different unlisted bonus track each, plus a picture disc, all for $30 a pop — and a special “vinyl & candles hoodie boxset” for $75, along with CDs, cassettes, and items like a “1 year anniversary journal / zine / CD” of her debut album “Sour.” After a quick sellout of most of the different LP variants at her webstore, she released a deluxe edition of the latest album, “Guts (Spilled),” that collected the four unlisted bonus songs from those prior editions and added a fifth all-new song, on two-LP splatter vinyl.

These variants not only carry a profit margin exponentially larger than streaming, each physical item counts as a full album sale (by contrast, it takes 1,500 individual song streams to equal one album sale, per the RIAA).

Even Billie Eilish, who had strong words about the environmental waste involved in manufacturing and shipping variants (before clarifying that she wasn’t singling out Swift or any other single artist), has played the game in as green a fashion as she could manage, with the following caveat. “For some reason, it’s very important to some artists to make all sorts of different vinyl and packaging…which ups the sales and gets them more money,” Eilish wrote in her Instagram story last March. “I can’t even express to you how wasteful it is… it’s some of the biggest artists in the world making f–king 40 different vinyl packages that have a different unique thing just to get you to keep buying more.” She’s not wrong: Physical product, particularly vinyl, is enormously wasteful and expensive to produce.

To her credit, Eilish — who is passionate about environmental issues — walked it like she talked it, releasing eight different variants, but from recycled or other green-leaning vinyl formats, along with a recyclable compound for the vinyl colors and recycled paper and boards for the packaging and shipping boxes (head here for details).

While record companies have always strived to sell as many units as possible — after all, it’s their job — this particular trend arguably originated earlier this century in Japan and Korea, where CD sales are still strong and the passion surrounding K-pop and J-pop acts inspires an omnivorous acquisitiveness in fans. While the CD’s small size can limit the options, record labels went to town, stuffing the collections with photos, booklets, stickers, bookmarks, trading cards, bonus discs and of course multiple versions of the same album featuring a different group member on the cover; with 12” boxed sets, all bets were off.

But is this variant gold-rush benefitting the larger music ecosystem as well as the artists, their labels and publishers? Yes and no. While Michael Kurtz, cofounder of Record Store Day , notes that variants are often great for record stores and other retailers when the artist is actually cognizant of them, the proliferation of artists selling variants direct-to-consumers from their websites often cuts them out completely.

“The best artists don’t allow that to happen,” Kurtz says, mentioning independent acts “who have a real connection to record stores and create specifics items for them.” While he demurred from singling out a number of artists who fit that category, he did praise Pearl Jam for its record store-friendly practices, including issuing variants sent to stores in different regions of the country, along with selling d2c.

“I think they did eight different variants of their latest album [“Dark Matter”], so the person in California was getting a different color than the person in New York or Atlanta,” he says. “That’s a really creative way of rewarding longtime local fans.” He also pointed to Swift’s past history of sending a number of signed variants to record stores and directing her fans to them.

So who is actually buying all these variants? As one would expect, superfans, which all labels say will be the object of laser-focused attention for growth in the coming years. Emiley, a 31-year-old longtime Swiftie, recently explained the appeal of the artist’s variants to Variety . “Each one typically has its own artwork and fresh photos that make it unique,” she said. “I know her team puts a lot of work into that. And I just think it’s really special to be able to have the entire collection and appreciate it as a whole instead of just having one individual [album].”

As any vinyl junkie can attest, that kind of superfandom can lead to borderline obsession. Belle, 48, initially bought just the initial “Tortured Poets” collector’s edition CD, the first vinyl piece to include a bonus track, and the cassette. “And then [Swift] dropped the next one. And I did the same thing. And then she dropped the third one. And then I was like, ‘Well, I think I’m just gonna order the vinyl and the collector CD and not the cassette.’ And I was like, ‘Why am I trying to save 20 bucks?’ Like, that’s just ridiculous, you know? And then the fourth one, obviously, you have to have all of them. And then she dropped the case to put them in.

“And then,” she continued, “I didn’t order the single when it first released, but then she dropped the ‘But Daddy I Love Him’ acoustic, and my daughter was like, ‘You have to order that one. That’s your favorite song.’ And then I was like, ‘Well, I might as well order the acoustic,’” she says. “I’ve never done this with another thing where I felt like I needed to have all the versions.”

Despite the financial windfall from the variant boom, the news isn’t all good: Physical product sales, which enjoyed years of double-digit growth, have slowed to 3.8% growth in the first half of 2024 versus the same period in 2023, according to Luminate (which did not include independent stores in its figures but says it will again in the future), and a report from the Vinyl Alliance obtained by Variety suggests that the market may have hit saturation. While the report notes that the global trade organization IFPI has reported 18 straight years of revenue growth for the U.S. vinyl format — with more than 120.9% growth between 2020 and 2023 — there is a huge backlog of unsold inventory, presumably mostly from non-superstars, that is sitting in warehouses and in some cases being sold below cost by labels.

Consequently, the vinyl pressing plants — which opened or re-opened en masse during the pandemic to meet booming demand — are seeing their production down dramatically.

“Records to be pressed in 2024 [are] at least 30-40% down compared to last year (some pressing plants suffer more depending on their client base),” a bullet-pointed segment of the report reads. “This is mainly caused by the fact that warehouses are still quite full because of over-ordering due to the long lead-times during COVID. Sales to consumers don’t show this drastic decrease, however [they show] no growth either.”

While this trend is probably not hurting the Swifts and Rodrigos of the world, their rising tides do not necessarily lift all boats.

Still, against all odds, a whole new generation — often with little connection to the past — has discovered how much fun collecting vinyl, CDs and other music ephemera can be, and that same Vinyl Alliance report notes that along with the U.S. multiple major European countries saw huge vinyl revenue growth between 2020 and 2023 — the U.K. 58.6%, France 74.7%, Germany 61.4%, the Netherlands a whopping 115.9%. All markets combined for 91% revenue growth between 2020 and 2023, totaling US $1.734 billion in wholesale dollars.

It is no accident that the vinyl revival began with the first Record Store Day in 2008.

“These kinds of variants all came out of Record Store Day,” Kurz says. “We started off having all kinds of different vinyl colors, but we actually got out of that business because it just seemed like too much to have people buying the same album in a different color rather than giving them something different,” like unreleased songs or archival recordings.

While he notes several labels that, by their actions, seem to respect the fans and the marketplace, “The big record companies are doing what they always have,” he says with a laugh. “Taking a good idea and overdoing it.”

Additional reporting by Julia MacCary and Chris Willman.

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