As I might perhaps have imagined, a lot of people have taken the time afforded by COVID-19 to take stock of themselves and re-connect with the things they had accrued.
That is probably what this looks like and to some extent it is true, though I had always planned to do something like this whether there was a pandemic or not.
What is 'something like this'? Simply: I will listen to all of the albums I have on vinyl and write about them here.
Hopefully the exercise is more Marcel Proust than Record Collector, but there might be a few anal details and pedantic points in and amongst the attempt to capture more ludic elements.
I think I've got about 300 records in total; I sold some in penury many years ago. Since the age of digital and streaming and never being rich anyway, I haven't got back to where I was in terms of LPs and CDs many moons ago. New purchases are guided by a deep need to own, rather than speculation.
What I do have I mostly like, though there are a few hangers-on and never-listened-tos. Hopefully in a year I can have finished this project and sell the ones that don't feel so essential to me anymore.
Join me, both of you, won't you?
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