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Paul Zickler's avatar

When I have a little extra money, I buy records. When I have more extra money, I buy more records. Sometimes when I really don’t have any extra money, I pick out records I’d like to buy and then put them all back. I can do this at a record store, but I usually end up buying at least one cheap album because there’s a real person working (who I typically end up talking to) and I don’t want to disappoint them. Or I can do it on the Discogs website, where it’s easier to find virtually any album ever released. The challenge is finding a bunch of albums I want from the same vendor, putting them all in my “shopping cart,” and then deleting them without actually spending the money I don’t have.

I love records.

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Tom Minet's avatar

You started in a good place when it came to vinyl, but I think all that matters is that you started, not where. In the early 70s, my first albums were The Eagles first album, John Denver's Rocky Mountain High and Jim Croce's You Don't Mess Around With Jim. Literally no one in my family listened to music other that big bands, musicals and Gilbert & Sullivan, yet somehow on the very long musical journey that continues, I found Syd Barrett and John Martyn and Radiohead and Robyn Hitchcock. I have to agree about the luxury of vinyl. There's something about the ritual of putting the record on the turntable that makes you more apt to sit and listen rather than multitask. I've listed to many an album on earbuds while walking and that's a good think, but actually taking the time to put that album on the turntable and do nothing but listen... it seems like a luxury, but maybe it's a necessity. Maybe it's one of the things that our crazy world desperately needs. XXX

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