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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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If you think your vinyl addition is bad then read this book and know you are not alone! There is some comfort in that and as Milano talks to many vinyl junkies (some famous like Peter Buck of REM, and others not) you will easily recognize yourself having at least one, if not quite a few of the same compulsions. I have to confess, when I read about guys living with 10,000 LP's etc, the thought did cross my mind " There but for the grace..." etc, but I only have to look at my room crowded out by LP's to know I've easily got it just as bad (and I only have maybe 600! and growing). This book is a fun easy read, and it stays off the frivilous 'lists' and so on and keeps to its base covering all the types of collectors and types of collections you probably knew existed but never would have guessed the depths and passions of ...
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This book would need very heavy editing from the publisher and much more working-hours from the author.
Sure it has some good stories, but to few. If they had cut it down to 50 pages it would had been a great, but thin book. This kind of book simply can't have 80% of landfill. Brett Milano should have interviewed mush more collectors to find the truly interesting stories. I's a subject that interest the author and the record collectors and there is many great stories out there, so the book had potential, but it seems as the publisher and the author took a short-cut to save time and money.
Nowadays anybody can browse trough forums at the internet to find good short stories about record-collecting for free, but it takes time. So does reading a book full of "landfill". The point of this kind of book would be to sort out the gems from the dirt, the truly interesting stories, and present them in professional way. Otherwise it would only be a rip-off of the buyers time and money.
Sure it has some good stories, but to few. If they had cut it down to 50 pages it would had been a great, but thin book. This kind of book simply can't have 80% of landfill. Brett Milano should have interviewed mush more collectors to find the truly interesting stories. I's a subject that interest the author and the record collectors and there is many great stories out there, so the book had potential, but it seems as the publisher and the author took a short-cut to save time and money.
Nowadays anybody can browse trough forums at the internet to find good short stories about record-collecting for free, but it takes time. So does reading a book full of "landfill". The point of this kind of book would be to sort out the gems from the dirt, the truly interesting stories, and present them in professional way. Otherwise it would only be a rip-off of the buyers time and money.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I've just finished reading this and despite Brett Milano being an excellent writer (it never was boring) i've a few issues with the book, some minor some major. I must admit i was surprised it was only A5 sized as i'd imagined (my error) it was going to be an A4 edition, probably the cover art had me believing it would be vinyl sized!! Staying with art, it really needed some photos of either the collections themselves or at least some of the records, preferably both.
As a psychological exploration of why people actually "collect" it was very enlightening and as a collector myself it certainly threw some new light onto the subject and made me think differently about the reasons why people, including myself, become obsessive. However i did find the musical element of the book somewhat snobby (possibly the nature of the beast) and the first half of the book was very heavy on extremely obscure American blues/psychedelia/78's and even shellac. I have no problem with this music, and any other for that matter, being included but it was certainly top heavy in that area and many other genres seemed to be excluded or even ridiculed e.g Styx/REO Speedwagon and Peter Frampton were used as derogatory examples of what not to collect and although i'm not a fan of any of these (although Frampton Comes Alive wasn't bad) i do feel that they have as much merit/kudos as a lot of the people lauded in the book.
However that aside it was still a very interesting read and i'd recommend anyone starting on a collecting career to read this as soon as possible to see where they might end up?
As a psychological exploration of why people actually "collect" it was very enlightening and as a collector myself it certainly threw some new light onto the subject and made me think differently about the reasons why people, including myself, become obsessive. However i did find the musical element of the book somewhat snobby (possibly the nature of the beast) and the first half of the book was very heavy on extremely obscure American blues/psychedelia/78's and even shellac. I have no problem with this music, and any other for that matter, being included but it was certainly top heavy in that area and many other genres seemed to be excluded or even ridiculed e.g Styx/REO Speedwagon and Peter Frampton were used as derogatory examples of what not to collect and although i'm not a fan of any of these (although Frampton Comes Alive wasn't bad) i do feel that they have as much merit/kudos as a lot of the people lauded in the book.
However that aside it was still a very interesting read and i'd recommend anyone starting on a collecting career to read this as soon as possible to see where they might end up?
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If you've been there, you'll get it!!
A very entertaining read, not too taxing, and not too involved. so it doesn't lose your interest.
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Published 23 months ago by Mr. S. Fraser
Obsessive about obsessives.
See, this is how bad I am. I thought this was a great book, but it would have been even better if it had colour photographs of all the record collections. Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2010 by A. Miles
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