OLD RECORDS NEVER DIE........
During the two and a half years since i started buying and collecting Vinyl again, i've read a lot of articles and blogs about record collecting. turntables, and the like - Long Live Vinyl is a favourite magazine, well worth the cover price - and i've come across a lot of snobbery. You know the sort: if you haven't paid a fortune for the rarest first pressings/limited editions/remastered at half-speed audiophile 180g repressings/obscure before-they-were-famous 7"s etc and listen to them on the most expensive top of the range equipment, then you're not taking it seriously and therefore not a "real" music fan. I've never bought into that attitude: i occasionally splash out on new releases or re-issues (which are over £20 a pop these days), but for the most part i buy used or second hand from charity shops and the few independent shops dotted around Nottingham, and i play them on a vintage (old) 1973 Marconiphone Radiogram that my other half bought me as