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Title details for Old Records Never Die by Eric Spitznagel - Available

Old Records Never Die

One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past

by Eric Spitznagel
Jeff Tweedy
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High Fidelity meets Killing Yourself to Live in this memoir of one man's search for his lost record collection.As he finds himself within spitting distance of middle age, journalist Eric Spitznagel feels acutely the loss of ... something. Freedom? Maybe. Coolness? Could be. The records he sold in a financial pinch? Definitely. To find out for sure, he sets out on a quest to find the original vinyl artifacts from his past. Not just copies. The exact same records: the Bon Jovi record with his first girlfriend's phone number scrawled on the front sleeve, the KISS Alive II he once shared with his little brother, the Replacements Let It Be he's pretty sure, twenty years later, would still smell like weed.As he embarks on his hero's journey, he reminisces about the actual records, the music, and the people he listened to it with—old girlfriends, his high school pals, and, most poignantly, his father and his young son. He explores the magic of music and memory as he interweaves his adventures in record culture with questions about our connection to our past, whether we can ever recapture it, and whether we would want to if we could.

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  • Release date

    April 12, 2016

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781504691598
      • File size: 246530 KB
      • Duration: 08:33:36

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Everyone knows the dude--he's your best friend's dad: graying and paunch prone, but hip to Instagram and savvy with Snapchat. He can't resist reverting to air-guitar mode whenever "Brown Sugar" comes on the radio, but somewhere between the time CDs supposedly replaced albums and the recent vinyl craze (and now even his kids are haunting record stores), he regrettably liquidated his vinyl album collection. As he tries to regain these tokens of his past--and the poignant sagas that accompany them--Ramiz Monsef's perfect everyman voice--resonant with the inflections of old-time political hacks and old-school comedians--couldn't be more well suited to the task. Its air of righteous indignation and seasoned wariness is the perfect vehicle for these vinyl memories. J.S.H. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine

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