More Entries from Tom’s Audiophile Notebook
That guy you see pictured on the left has spent much of the last forty years wandering around used record stores looking for better records (ahem).
Before that he wandered around stores selling new records because he didn’t know how good old used records could be.
Here are some of the things he’s learned since he started collecting at the age of ten about sixty years ago. (First purchase: She Loves You on 45. It’s still in the collection, although it cracked long ago and is no longer playable.)
One of our good customers had this to say about some Hot Stampers he purchased recently (and one that is still on its way to him):
Hey Tom,
So I go on YouTube to refresh my memory and listen and James Taylor, that could be good, Toto, what a feel good album, brings back memories, Wish You Were Here, already have a pretty good copy, Sinatra-Basie, what’s that?
So I go to YouTube and first track HOLY CRAP! You know it’s good when you’re throwing a sound stage off your lap-top! Basie orchestra, perfect. Frank comes in swinging and man that guy was so freaking cool, people today have no idea how unbelievably cool he was, and so like 20 seconds if that I am SOLD!