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A Life in Thirty-Five Boxes
- How I Survived Selling My Record Collection
- Narrated by: Dave Haslam
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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Summary
A Life in Thirty-Five Boxes: How I Survived Selling My Record Collection investigates our impulse to collect - particularly our emotional attachment to vinyl - and the notion that every record collection reflects our life story.
Author Dave Haslam meets several exceptional enthusiasts with fascinating vinyl collections and tracks how his own collection built; the pleasures and perils of record shops; and his decades of record-buying - up to the cathartic moment he decides to sell all his vinyl to DJ Seth Troxler and waves good-bye to 35 boxes of records as they're loaded into the back of a van.
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- Greil Marxus
- 18-09-21
Personal, moving, but forward looking.
It’s a pleasure to hear Dave Haslam talk movingly about what music and the physical records mean to him, the book feels like a intimate conversation with an old friend. A very knowledgable friend, one unafraid to confront their motivations.
Although it’s a personal story he turns his focus outwards to other people, their experiences and different ways of coming to the same place (being a record collector) - this raises it above some books of this type which are all about the author. Haslam has gently made his story universal and that is what really makes this good.
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