{"id":1968,"date":"2014-07-22T15:27:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T22:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2014-07-22T15:27:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T22:27:45","slug":"the-joys-of-record-collecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/07\/the-joys-of-record-collecting.html","title":{"rendered":"The Joys of Record Collecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;Ek7iyrlYHDOILDJGrQgtzksB1G6Fgw70&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>IN these digital days of downloads and streaming, it seems like a truly ancient pastime to seek out old chunks of vinyl. Two new books get into the motivation and culture of collectors who amass 78s and 33s.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not read either, but <a title=\"Record-collecting books\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/22\/books\/do-not-sell-at-any-price-and-dust-grooves.html?ref=books&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> New York Times review makes me want to check them out. It also reminds me how lucky I was to come of age at the tail end of the era where one could hunt through used stacks to find rare or overlooked gems. Used-vinyl shops, of which my town, Los Angeles, offers a decent choice, still give some of that thrill.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/220px-Cartridge_macro_shot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1969\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/220px-Cartridge_macro_shot.jpg\" alt=\"220px-Cartridge_macro_shot\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"nitf\">The books in question are Amanda Petrusich&#8217;s <em>DO NOT SELL AT ANY PRICE: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World\u2019s Rarest 78 rpm Records<\/em> and <em>Eilon Paz&#8217;s DUST &amp; GROOVES: Adventures in Record Collecting<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nitf\">Reviewer Larry Rohter begins her review by describing how Petrusich got bitten by the same collecting bug as the collectors she was interviewing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"nitf\">\u201cEventually, I started to want what they wanted,\u201d she writes. \u201cFor me, the modern marketing cycle and the endless gifts of the Web had begun to feel toxic,\u201d its surfeit of always-available music leading to a response that surprised her: \u201cI missed pining for things. I missed the ecstasy of acquisition.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone remember the blues record collectors from <em>Ghost World<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;Ek7iyrlYHDOILDJGrQgtzksB1G6Fgw70&#8243;] IN these digital days of downloads and streaming, it seems like a truly ancient pastime to seek out old chunks of vinyl. Two new books get into the motivation and culture of collectors who amass 78s and 33s. I&#8217;ve not read either, but this New York Times review makes me want to check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,58,178,633],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blues","7":"category-music","8":"category-record-stores","9":"category-vinyl","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}