Vinyl Collecting Addiction

Vinyl collectors live for the high of digging through crates of vintage records at stores or flea markets searching for new vinyl finds online going through their parents collection and finally sitting down to listen to the unique sounds of vinyl.

Vinyl collecting addiction.

Eilon paz s 436 page coffee table book illuminates over 130 vinyl collectors and their collections in the most intimate of environments their record rooms. It doesn t turn off even when you re broke rich medina the dust grooves book. Open mobile menu. Joe bussard s record collecting obsession began at the end of the world war ii.

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Posted onjun 25 2014 18 signs you are addicted to collecting vinyl it always starts off like a little hobby. And then before you know it you re spending 150 on an out of print import. 18 documentaries about vinyl and record collecting. Alan zweig explores the eclectic world of record collecting.

Crate digging is a term used by dj s and collectors to refer to the act of checking record stores flea markets or thrift shops for second hand music on vinyl. Some people jumped back into collecting some never stopped collecting and others are just starting down this path but for some reason all vinyl collectors soon become addicted. These people will try to find the most obscure or rare records to either put it in their collection play in their disc jockey set or to reuse pieces of. Need to own every version of a song that an artist has committed to vinyl cd.

After playing his parents phonograph to death bussard was hooked and set off around the us on collecting trips. Are we record collectors or vinyl hoarders. A personal insight into the psychology of a record collecting completist.