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A very sad story of loss (of records!)

Dec 24, 2008, 7:50pm

Thanks to Largeheartedboy who keeps an eye out for music-related news and articles, I read this rather tragic story of a guy who lost a sizable part of his record collection moving cross-county. This topic is one that keeps me awake nights sometimes. Like Dave, the author, I have a pretty sizable collection that grows seemingly daily at times. I've been collecting CD's and records since the 80's so I have amassed a large pile of CD's and a recently-growing collection of vinyl. I can say that I empathize with Dave in that I had CD's [...]

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