Author: Simon Morgan

There is a point where an online bargain stops being a bargain and starts becoming a shipping invoice. Brocantes have ruined me for sensible record buying.

The sleeve says Germany. The dead wax says the story travelled further. This is how one copy of Scoundrel Days turned into a small industrial-history rabbit hole.

Most grading systems ask one media grade to describe two different things: what the record looks like and what it actually sounds like. Those usually correlate — until they don’t.