Download Old Records Never Die: One Man’s Quest for His Vinyl and His Past AudioBook Free

High Fidelity meets Killing Yourself to Live in this memoir of 1 man's seek out 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 bought from a financial pinch? Definitely. To find out for certain, he sets from a quest to find the original vinyl artifacts from his past. Not just copies. The very same records: the Bon Jovi record with his first girlfriend's contact number scrawled on leading sleeve, the KISS Alive II he once distributed to his little brother, the Replacements' Let It Be he's confident, 20 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 individuals he listened to it with - old girlfriends, his senior 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 connections to your pasts, whether we can ever recapture them, and whether we'd want to if we could.

Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects