http://www.ratrecordsuk.net/shopnews Autobiography of a record dealer Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:37:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It started as they always do, with this phone call; `Alright mate, do you buy old records?...well I've got a few...how many?..I dunno..nah, I dunno what they are...they're in an old tea chest in the loft...' So far, this was the call I have received several times a day, every day of ... http://www.ratrecordsuk.net/shopnews/?p=13 - the protagonist suffers musical outrages and sexual confusion near Milton Keynes... Age 10. Parents LP collection...partial remembrance due to trauma...Elkie Brooks, Elton John, Barbara Dickson, James Taylor and worse...Hand of Fate intervenes via inexplicable presence of a Steely Dan LP and the White album... ...Dad tries to spend what I now know ... http://www.ratrecordsuk.net/shopnews/?p=11 - in which our hero begins to relate a murky saga variously featuring records, girls, gigs, vinyl, drums and love – Born. ...ten years is wasted...I don't go to see any of the classic acts of the Seventies as I am in primary school...anyway, on with the formative years with their clearly ... http://www.ratrecordsuk.net/shopnews/?p=9 I was crossing the Goldhawk Road the other night to do a CD buy and saw a beautiful, sixties Rover saloon. In its window was a sticker illustrated with the picture of an old HMV logo-style gramophone. The sticker text read,` 78rpm. The right speed for me.' Now I'm not really ... http://www.ratrecordsuk.net/shopnews/?p=3