Old Records Never Die: One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past

✍ Scribed by Spitznagel, Eric

• Book ID: 109271711
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 774 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780142181614

✦ Synopsis

Foreword by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy _
High Fidelity_ meets Killing Yourself to Live in this memoir __ of one man's search for his lost record collection. As he finds himself within spitting distance of middle-age, journalist Eric Spitznagel feels acutely the loss of...something. Freedom? Maybe. Coolness? Could be. The records he sold in a financial pinch? Definitely. To find out for sure, he sets out on a quest to find the original vinyl artifacts from his past. Not just copies. The exact same records: The Bon Jovi record with his first girlfriend's phone number scrawled on the front sleeve. The KISS Alive II he once shared with his little brother. The Replacements Let It Be he's pretty sure, 20 years later, would still smell like weed.
As he embarks on his hero's journey, he reminisces about the actual records, the music, and the people he listened to it with--old girlfriends, his high school pals, and, most poignantly, his father and...