Musings on the byways of popular culture
My big flexi disc collecting feature in the Scottish Courier paper/magazine has been put back until 30th May (curse you Alan Cummings article!) but you can see it on the newspaper’s website right now if you like. I do look a bit worried in one pic but I’m not, I’m just an old record collecting obsessive.
Carnoustie collector Shane on lifelong vinyl obsession including rare Slade Christmas invite
I’ve been picking up stuff for weeks but have been too busy with family affairs to post for a while so have chosen some of the albums I’ve enjoyed the most in March. There were loads of singles and these ones below are very varied and most came cheap, but then I have been digging in some mucky places but luckily turned up some clean and tidy records.
I had a stall at a big record fair in Dundee today and managed to clear out loads of stuff cheap, Beatles, Genesis, Dylan etc, albums I really wasn’t fussed with keeping and as usual the dealers were all over me. The advantage of this to me, was that I got chatting and to one of them in particular who told me he had just bought a huge Velvet Underground and related collection. I know how much he paid for the lot and there were some interesting bootlegs and all but i thought I’d offer him trade on albums from my stock which he would easily be able to double up + on and he took the bait! So I have managed to get a few keepers for my growing VU collection, the originals hardly ever turn up at fairs or anywhere in the wild so I cherry picked a couple of goodies and a live album I don’t have. I was really pleased as I have never owned original US issues of their albums, I have the UK ones but the debut with it’s banana intact and in lovely ‘fresh’ condition was an Xmas treat to myself, £100 in » Continue Reading.
