I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.
I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.
Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.
I collect vintage vinyl records.
The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.
I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!
I worked in a record store, but I realised I didn't want that. I still wanted to pursue a career - or a life - that my songs provided for me.
I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.