Music in the margins
“The vinyl community, much like the football one, is obsessive, fervid. Like pinballs, they ricochet from record shop to record shop, fair to fair, market to market, in the hunt for that elusive, limited edition, Third Man split-colour 3″, sealed, mint.”
“Someone once called the record ‘mid-fi’ which is probably accurate – it was hi-fi recordings of a low-fi band.”
“I very almost went in but I was suddenly gripped by the fear of never finding the exit again.”
“What evokes one’s youth more than the soundtrack to it?”
“There are only so many people happy to pay £100 for an obscure Wire off-shoot album in VG condition.”
“Running a secondhand record shop is “a licence to print money right now.”
Arcane Delights 