Music in the margins
Tag: The Go-Betweens
Vinyl ramblings (Pt. IV) : The Record Market
“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.”
Robert Dallas Gray (Life Without Buildings) interview
“Someone once called the record ‘mid-fi’ which is probably accurate – it was hi-fi recordings of a low-fi band.”
Good riddance, the bitter hack
“I’ve never quite connected with this notion that just because you have a podium and a loudhailer, your opinion is the gospel.”