From
scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record
collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after
album. In Vinyl Freak,
music writer, curator, and collector John Corbett burrows deep inside
the record fiend’s mind, documenting and reflecting on his decades-long
love affair with vinyl. Discussing more than 200 rare and out-of-print
LPs, Vinyl Freak is composed in part of Corbett's long-running DownBeat
magazine column of the same name, which was devoted to records that had
not appeared on CD. In other essays where he combines memoir and
criticism, Corbett considers the current vinyl boom, explains why vinyl
is his preferred medium, profiles collector subcultures, and recounts
his adventures assembling the Alton Abraham Sun Ra Archive, an event so
all-consuming that he claims it cured his record-collecting addiction.
Perfect for vinyl newbies and veteran crate diggers alike, Vinyl Freak plumbs the motivations that drive Corbett and collectors everywhere.
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