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Back in October, I came across an article on a documentary about Dusty Groove, a record store I visited once long ago in the early days of the this blog. In fact, this is the 394th post on this blog but my minimal coverage on my visit to that shop is only the third, over […]
Got into a discussion with someone regarding my hiphop vinyl collection. Best thing to do was to put together a quick video. Except it wasn’t ‘quick’, it was over a half an hour. So many stories. Glad I did this.
Once in a great while I get a comment from strangers which is always nice. Nicer still are the even fewer times that I have gotten comments from record store owners who saw their post and let me know they enjoyed it. I don’t go out of my way to trash anyone and I have […]
It was over six years ago that I first learned of Lloyd Miller’s work. I was introduced to him – like many others – by ‘Egon’ Alpatt of Stones Throw Records. I was puzzled by his opinions on western music’s state of affairs and his hardline stance against all that it represented. But what of […]
Far from the reason I collect, but worthy of note are two long term investments I made which I was recently able to turn. I was able to scoop these no doubt because I did check their value and desirability on discogs but when you are flipping hundreds of records, experience allows me to notice […]
I check the pitiful stats on my blog regularly so that I can feel a mix of disappointment and disgust that about 25% of my all-time page views are based in Russia and the only referrers are from google searches. Never a mention in another blog, a facebook post…nothing. Until now! Looks like a bunch […]
I’ve been approaching 600 LPs for a while but I never thought it would come via such a strange route. I decided a while ago that 600 would be the end of the road for me. Not for collecting in general of course – but basically my upper limit. I have been planning to ‘trim […]