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August 6, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

A Very Benign And In-Character Midlife Crisis: I’m Back Buying CDs

But it is only a very specific type and only at a set price. I won’t pay more than $5 for a CD.  (Well, sometimes rules are made to be broken). And I am basically only buying soundtrack albums, instrumental scores. Well, I’ve busted outside of the lines a few times, but it’s the same […]
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July 24, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 278 

Aoife O’Donovan, In The Magic Hour (2016) Bargain! I picked this up at the recent record fair for $2. Brand new. Or listened to once. Couldn’t believe my luck. Thought the sticker said $12 – and that seemed reasonable. But looked again. $2! I guess not many people know about Aoife O’Donovan down here? Well, I had to guess that – as the record […]
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May 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 703

Eric Gale, Ginseng Woman (1977) Some 20 years ago I moved to Wellington and started raiding the second-hand vinyl stores, there were a few of them then – and you’d also find people giving away whole- or part-collections, garage sales, all sorts. I guess that’s still the case, but the stores are shrinking. Limited market. […]
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December 12, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1719

The Who, Who’s Next (1971) I’m not sure when I heard Who’s Next for the first time but I am sure that when I did it quickly became my favourite album by The Who. The opening track, Baby O’Riley, was already my favourite Who song (of course it’s hard to pick just one) and hearing […]
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