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  • How I Survived Selling My Record Collection
  • By: Dave Haslam
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  • Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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A Life in Thirty-Five Boxes: How I Survived Selling My Record Collection investigates our impulse to collect - particularly our emotional attachment to vinyl - and the notion that every record collection reflects our life story. 

Author Dave Haslam meets several exceptional enthusiasts with fascinating vinyl collections and tracks how his own collection built; the pleasures and perils of record shops; and his decades of record-buying - up to the cathartic moment he decides to sell all his vinyl to DJ Seth Troxler and waves good-bye to 35 boxes of records as they're loaded into the back of a van.
©2019 Dave Haslam (P)2021 Cocker Media
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Personal, moving, but forward looking.

It’s a pleasure to hear Dave Haslam talk movingly about what music and the physical records mean to him, the book feels like a intimate conversation with an old friend. A very knowledgable friend, one unafraid to confront their motivations.

Although it’s a personal story he turns his focus outwards to other people, their experiences and different ways of coming to the same place (being a record collector) - this raises it above some books of this type which are all about the author. Haslam has gently made his story universal and that is what really makes this good.

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