Crate diggers of the world unite and take over

The one thing I have learnt after years of sniffing mercilessly every record bin that comes my way, be it in op-shops (that's charity shops for our UK cousins and thrift stores for our US ones), record stores or junk barns, is that finding cool LPs is an experience to be shared with fellow record nuts. The amount of time that I spend trailing through such fine establishments is only matched by the time I spend looking at record blogs and sussing out what other junkies are laying their dusty hands on. It's a bit like travelling without moving really. Anyway don't let me go off on any tangent or we are doomed big time.

After much reflection, I decided (perhaps against my better judgement) to share these wonderful experiences where you walk into a shop or at a market and you find something that makes your day, like the day I found the first Stones EP in near mint condition in the record bin of an op-shop for the monster sum of 50 cents (I live Down Under in Melbourne, capital of all things cool in OZ and don't let anybody tell you it's Sydney as only clowns would make such irrational statements).

RECORDS RECORDS AND MORE RECORDS!