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Summary:

"[A] thoughtful, entertaining history of obsessed music collectors and their quest for rare early 78 rpm records...Fascinating"-- Los Angeles Times, cover.

Table of Contents:

• An air of impoverishment and depleted humanity
• That's mine now, I got that before you could get it
• An obnoxious, bitter, hateful old creep
• This is one of the things I would say is inexplicable
• A form of protection against the loss of self
• Suck all the blossoms and he leave you an empty square
• We are not drowning
• I like to get into the field and hunt them down in the wild, so to speak
• All I'm saying is there's no way you can game this kind of system
• Now there's a man on his way down
• i saw America changed through music
• There will be no service
• But there's another part of me that finds it kind of disgusting
• Luring me out here for nothing but a damn bunch of LP records!
• An obsessive need for tings to stay the same and an immersion in arcane knowledge
• Who wants to hear a story about a boy learning guitar from a book.

Author/Creator:

Petrusich, Amanda , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English text.

Main Work:

Do not sell at any price: the wild, obsessive hunt for the world's rarest 78rpm records [by Petrusich, A.]

Subjects:

Sound recordings — Collectors and collecting

Sound recordings

Genres:

Sound recordings

General Notes:

Includes discography (pages 247-249) and index.

Physical Description:

x, 260 pages,13 unnumbered pages of interview transcript : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm

Physical Characteristics:

monochrome

Call Numbers:

ML111.5 .P47 2014

ISBNs:

9781451667066 (trade paperback, alkaline paper)
145166706X (trade paperback, alkaline paper)

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Scribner: 0615

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2013045926

OCLC Numbers:

1053479386
863695550 [Invalid]