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A Life in Thirty-Five Boxes

How I Survived Selling My Record Collection

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A Life in Thirty-Five Boxes

By: Dave Haslam
Narrated by: Dave Haslam
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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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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.

Personal, moving, but forward looking.

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