I don’t have a record player anymore, and I gave away all my vinyl. But I saw The Clash’s Sandinista on ebay and bought it. I will put the Armigideon Times booklet up on the wall I think. But it was nice to hold a record again. My daughter doesn’t remember my vinyl collection and so this was the first time she’d really seen a record. “How did you skip to the next track?” she asked. I explained lifting the needle up and down and how you mustn’t touch the disc. It was like explaining gas lighting. She looked at me incredulously, and demonstrated the speed of getting a track on Spotify (as if all digital music was alien to me). She went off shaking her head at the deprivation we had to endure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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