While record shopping in Hong Kong I managed to get over to Kowloon to a tiny walk-up record store that had 1000s of used LPs stacked in boxes. The store was so crowded no more than 4 people could be in it at one time and searching LPs involved having the owner do feats of acrobatics to shuffle boxes around. Most of it was junk, but he did have some gems if you told him what you were looking for.
After buying a few inches worth I talked to the owner a bit: He had, by his estimate, 200k LPs, most of which were off site in storage. He had moved to Kowloon from the mainland without a dollar to his name and lived on the street. When CDs hit the scene (I'm guessing mid-80s to early 90s) the status-conscious HK residents started literally dumping their LP collections out on the curb. Decidedly forward-looking for a homeless guy, the owner started collecting them in one pile on whatever street he occupied. He slept under the same plastic tarp that protected his collection from the rain for 20 years.
When the vinyl resurgence hit he did a fairly brisk business, was able to buy some property and a Harley. He met the president of Harley Davidson while he was in HK -- something that got him visibly excited when he talked about it. Pretty cool guy.
Vinyl is interesting and for older folks it can take you back to your childhood. I am long past my days of listening to equipment, I want my music as clean as I can get
The terrible stuff may be used for cutting and scratching. If you scratch the vinyl, it adds character.
Vinyls is the only way to get back to that. Remember, all new music is just samples of old. And there aren't that many good quality samples, so new music is limited to shit quality.
but there was a pretty interesting link to an article about "sao-luis-reggae" linked, but has since been removed.
