Where do I start and you begin?

Let’s face it buying vinyl online isn’t a great experience. It *is* a great service but when it comes to browsing most online vinyl stores it can be really hard to see anything other than top sellers, what the labels are pushing and a bad algorithm / search / recommendations function. The magic of your vinyl flicking fingers alongside the High-Fidelity-knows-what-you-like-before-you-do store assistant infused shopping experience is rarely replicated (Vinyl Me Please aside who are pretty fantastic). We, the everyday vinyl lovers, can find ourselves lost in a pit of terrible scrolling and end up with a purchase that we don’t really know why we bought. Enter all the vinyl I currently have under my stairs screaming for a Discogs page. Anyway, I travel a lot, I buy a lot, and I thought I’d start a blog that ties together all the reasons I would buy an album or book or whatever. These can be anything from it was mentioned in a book (so I have a book section) or, like so many others, it has nostalgic value, or it’s just a banger of an album.

When it comes to books, well I learn so much about music via books, or books via music.

For example…