What's it going to be? Comic books, stamps, coins, guns, fire engines, boulders? Most everybody, sooner or later, starts to be a collector of some thing. It brings order they say. It starts out with one of something, I guess.
The first record album I ever bought was Disreli Gears by Cream. I bought it at Alexanders in Manhattan. My brother bought Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits the same day. We had 45s, and my brother already had Beatles records and I listened to my dad's Clancy Brothers and Kingston Trio. These were the first real rock. I have strayed from the rock over the years. I have thousands of records. Jazz ,blues, country, on and on. All genres. I'm not hardcore. I don't know what Chet Baker had for lunch the day he recorded My Funny Valentine.
When you start to have records you haven't listened to or guns you haven't fired, you have become a collector. I have to try out that riot gun I bought a few years back. I think I'll use it on a Seals and Croft album.
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