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Examine The Record’s Cover And Let The Memories Wash Over You
Maybe you’ve got a pile of old record albums that you house in the attic and you haven’t even thought about them let alone played them in a long time. When compact discs (CDs) were introduced you could have lugged your vinyl to a used record shop and pocketed some cash for them, but for some reason you never got around to it.
You kept promising yourself you’d do it next weekend, but it looked that next weekend would never arrive, so there the records sit in a box, accumulating dust, in your attic. To hear the recording industry interpret things, CDs were everything but the cure for the common cold, but you weren’t swallowing what they were selling, and you swore a (figurative) blood oath to stick with vinyl.
But the record stores schemed against vinyl adherents, and little by little, like weed-choked gardens, their shelves became overrun with scrawny plastic jewel boxes that housed silly little discs. But what were you to do when retail outlets finally gave the LP the long goodbye, and you had no other choice but to take one for the team, then buy a CD player, along with a big slice of humble pie a la mode.
You wanted to avoid making a pact with the dark prince, so you stayed away from the record shop, but that siren’s voice kept calling you, and finally your willpower imploded. So you replaced a lot of your old LP pile with CD releases as soon as they entered the stores, and when every new release you wanted became available, you bought the CD, of course.
Although you unquestionably had moved over to the satanic side and become a small-disc collector, you were puzzled as to why you could never seem to crank up the energy to rid yourself of those record albums. Old habits die hard, you soon learned, and not only did the 12-inch records linger on as your upstairs lodger, you retained your old-fashioned turntable, too.
The classic vinyl in your attic sits there and disrespects you, and you swear that some midnights you can hear chuckling emanating from the eaves of your house, but your girlfriend just looks at you oddly. Maybe it’s your recollections that are strongly connected with each of those discs that makes it so hard to part with them, and makes clear why you stashed them away.
You’ve probably got a memory attached to each of those long untouched records in your collection, and all you have to do is look at them and you’ll have instant recall. Maybe those records set off memories of you and your friends, attending dances and hearing that music for the first time together.
If that’s the fact, rather than fight it, why not dust off your old turntable, bring down a box of albums from the attic and have a good, satisfying listening party, just for old times’ sake.
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