In the early ’90s, discovering cut-out CDs was a real turning point for me. I was a little kid with a massive hunger for new music and not much money in his pockets, so heading to the store and being

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I’ve been making mixtapes (and then mix CDs) forever. Even before I had a CD player, I used to record my own mixes either taping songs from the radio or picking them from my then-small cassettes library. Cassettes weren’t user-friendly

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If you’re reading this blog, you should be familiar with crate digging. If you’re not, we can summarize it as “going on the hunt for records”. LPs (and sometimes CDs) on sale are often stored in crates. If you usually dig

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I haven’t reorganized my record collection in years. The last time I did it was around 2006, and it wasn’t even my idea. My girlfriend of those days spurred me. “You ain’t done that in one year”, she said. “Come

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