I ordered an Orbit Theory from U-turn Audio last Wednesday (while I was still in Massachusetts) from one of my neighborhood record stores here in Portland, Oregon, and yesterday I drove to The Record Pub to pick it up. It is the first “high end” turntable I’ve ever purchased. Makes me feel like a grown-up.Continue reading “We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Celebrate the Arrival of the New Turntable Baby”
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#703: F is for Fleet Foxes
2011 was the year I resumedcollecting records somewhat earnestly. I’m not exactly sure why it happened. Vinyl was on the way up from nearannihilation, or at least obscurity. And then there was a move fromone neighborhood to another, from a house my wife and I lived infor 20 years to this new old housein theContinue reading “#703: F is for Fleet Foxes”
We Interrupt This Regularly Scheduled Program To Bring You This Breaking News Announcement
In my project of listening to (nearly) every single record in my collection from A to Z and then writing a little poem-like-thing for every artist represented, I have come to the conclusion that my turntable needle is shot to hell. For a while there, I was making annotations to the effect that certain recordsContinue reading “We Interrupt This Regularly Scheduled Program To Bring You This Breaking News Announcement”
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