Posted August 8, 201410 yr So buying vinyl is an addiction - vinylholics anonymous nothing compared to this Brazilian featured in today's nY Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/the-brazilian-bus-magnate-whos-buying-up-all-the-worlds-vinyl-records.html?_r=0
August 8, 201410 yr Author Yep noticed that straight away - wonder what else he has hoovered up along the way - Baffling , interesting and quirky - three descriptions that fit well with vinyl addicts yes ???
August 8, 201410 yr Oh ! And they are supposed to reprazent FRIED BANANAS ! a lot better than sliced tomatoes wonder if he will let me cherry pick at his records 10c a record ???????
August 8, 201410 yr No, only one left foot on an acetate of Bob Dylan in the loo "easing down" and the right foot on a Beatles acetate where you hear Phil Spector leaving the studio moaning "what the hell am I gonna do with that ?"
August 9, 201410 yr Note the reference to William Powell - Heartache Souvenirs Some of those records are highly valuable. In Freitas’s living room, a coffee table was covered with recently acquired rarities. On top of a stack of 45s sat “Barbie,” a 1962 single by Kenny and the Cadets, a short-lived group featuring the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson on lead vocals and, as backup singers, Wilson’s brother Carl and their mother, Audree. In the same stack was another single – “Heartache Souvenirs"/"Chicken Shack,” by William Powell – that has fetched as much as $5,000 on eBay. Nearby sat a Cuban album by Ivette Hernandez, a pianist who left Cuba after Fidel Castro took power; Hernandez’s likeness on the cover was emblazoned with a bold black stamp that read, in Spanish, “Traitor to the Cuban Revolution.”
So buying vinyl is an addiction - vinylholics anonymous nothing compared to this Brazilian featured in today's nY Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/the-brazilian-bus-magnate-whos-buying-up-all-the-worlds-vinyl-records.html?_r=0