Category: Vinyl
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The Story Of Clube da Esquina – One of Brazil’s Greatest Treasures
Clube da Esquina by Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges was one of only five Brazilian albums to be featured in the book “1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die”. If you have yet to hear this fusion of Brazilian music and Beatles-inflected pop, this may whet your appetite…
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World Records: A New Book about Record Collectors
In 2008 New York photographer Eilon Paz was shown a photo of a man, Frank Goessner, a German, who lived around the corner from Paz in Brooklyn. Goessner was wearing combat gear, holding an AK-47, surrounded by a mass of records. As a music fan, Paz was intrigued and (perhaps bravely) met Goessner to ask…
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Recalled And Censored: The Story of The MC5’s Kick Out The Jams
The Grande Ballroom in Detroit. The home of the MC5. In front of a rabid sell-out crowd lead singer Rob Tyner is bringing the show to a close when from the wings a man leaps onstage and shoots Tyner at close range. Blood everywhere. Pandemonium. Tyner collapses and is dragged offstage. Both the singer and,…
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Record Collector’s 100 Ways Vinyl Can Make You Money In 2021
In its latest issue, Record Collector has sought to identify a hundred records that show “investment potential”. The cover boasts “The 100 Best Music Investments” and “How Your Vinyl Can Make You Money In 2021”. This is no bad thing. After all, we could all do with a few extra quid, if only to spend…
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Every Record Tells A Story: The Vinyl Handbook – New Book Update!
(And Five Ways To Promote Your New Book On Social Media – A Blogger’s Guide) Well, I must say I have been delighted, nay overwhelmed, by the wonderful reaction to the launch of the book, Every Record Tells A Story: A Vinyl Handbook (which you can pre-order exclusively by clicking this link. Pre-orders attract a…
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Buy The Book Here: Every Record Tells a Story: A Vinyl Handbook
For vinyl and music fans everywhere: the debut book from Every Record Tells A Story is here…
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Your Guide To Selling Vinyl On eBay, and More About The Discogs Median Price Myth
Part 3 of a real-life test to see whether you can make decent money from selling vinyl. (Here’s part 1) Ah, eBay. Perhaps only Sergio Aguero, as he scored with 93:20 on the clock to win Manchester City’s first league title for 44 years has ever experienced a high as euphoric as the feeling you…
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The Discogs “Median Price” Myth
Are records really worth the “Median price” on the world’s biggest record selling platform: Discogs? Based purely on the stories they tell, most record collectors sit firmly in the world’s five or so leading experts in the field. We all have tales of finding things at half their real value, and most collectors will swear…
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Can You Make Decent Money From Selling Vinyl Records Online? A Challenge…
It’s now difficult even to imagine, but before the world locked down and self-isolated and you could still meet up with other people (ah, remember those halcyon days?), priorities went beyond ensuring we had enough toilet roll and pasta. We would talk about buying luxury items such as chocolate and toothpaste, would think about whether…
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Warped record? Here’s how to get it fixed!
Picture the scene. You find a rare record you really like, which is inexplicably low-priced and as yet undiscovered. And then you find out why. It’s warped. One of the most difficult problems in the record collecting world to fix. Yuri Geller had it right. Far easier to bend things than to straighten them. It…
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Fantastic Beats And Where To Find Them: A Guide To London’s Independent Record Shops
London may have its downsides: traffic jams, crowds, the £10 gin and tonic, but it also has sixty-odd places to buy records. Sixty-odd reasons to put up with the stresses and strains of life in the capital. Even with a backdrop of retail woes (British Retail Consortium figures show consumer spending fell more sharply last…
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Record Shops Facing Tipping Point in 2019…
The Vinyl Revival may have seen an increase in record shop numbers, but record buyers can ill-afford to take their local record shops for granted… In case you have been distracted by other, less important political issues such as Brexit and volatile US presidents, it won’t have escaped your notice there has been a miraculous…
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The Moment Adam Clayton’s Wedding Tackle Became The Cover Star of U2’s Achtung Baby
In which we discover why a naked picture of Adam Clayton nearly became the cover art of U2’s Achtung Baby…
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Vinyl Subscription Services: Which One Is Best?
Not sure whether to sign up to a vinyl subscription service? Here’s a look at a few… Last time, we looked at Vinyl Me Please and its cocktail recipe. It was all very shiny and pleasing, but didn’t solve the perennial issue of potentially lumbering you with records as welcome in your collection as Mariah…
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Vinyl Me? Please…
In which we take a look at the US vinyl subscription service and check out the most important aspect of their monthly offer: The cocktail recipe…
Every record tells a story 