Tagged: record collectors

When I started this blog, I never envisioned that at some point I would just be posting pictures of albums with almost nothing to say about them. I mean, most of these records have...

When my roommate sent me the CD of The Best of Elvis Costello and the Attractions in 1985, it was the later songs that really stood out for me, especially the sad history of...

As I’ve been saying, all my early Elvis vinyl, everything that happened before King of America, I bought after King of America. I didn’t know any of those albums before the mid-to-late ‘80s, other...

Imagine that someone who has been recording for about four years has amassed enough b-side and unreleased material that it deserves to be released on a collection of its own — and it’s a...

A couple of entries back I told the story of how, when “Get Happy!!” came out in 1980, I allowed myself to be put off of the record by someone else’s enthusiasm for it....

As with “My Aim Is True,” I didn’t really experience this album until years after it came out in 1978. If I wouldn’t have been ready for what I heard on “Aim,” I would...