Vinyl freak : love letters to a dying medium

The Resource Vinyl freak : love letters to a dying medium
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Vinyl freak : love letters to a dying medium
Title remainder
love letters to a dying medium
Statement of responsibility
John Corbett
Title variation
Love letters to a dying medium
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Language
eng
Summary
From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. Music writer, curator, and collector John Corbett burrows deep inside the record fiend's mind, documenting and reflecting on his decades-long love affair with vinyl. Discussing more than 200 rare and out-of-print LPs, Vinyl Freak is composed in part of Corbett's long-running Downbeat magazine column of the same name, which was devoted to records that had not appeared on CD. In other essays where he combines memoir and criticism, Corbett considers the current vinyl boom, explains why vinyl is his preferred medium, profiles collector subcultures, and recounts his adventures assembling the Alton Abraham Sun Ra Archive, an event so all-consuming that he claims it cured his record-collecting addiction. Perfect for vinyl newbies and veteran crate diggers alike, "Vinyl Freak" plumbs the motivations that drive Corbett and collectors everywhere
Cataloging source
NcD/DLC
Illustrations
  • genealogical tables
  • illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • bibliography
  • reviews
PerformerNote
Sun Ra, piano and vocals, performing It's a good day by Dave Barbour and Peggy Lee

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