Buy a Record You’ve Never Heard Of
What happens when you buy curiosity instead of something from a want list? In this episode of Dave’s Side One, Dave uses Beck, Bogert & Appice for an Art of Listening experiment built around record-store discovery. Want lists are useful. Reviews, ratings and streaming previews are useful too. But knowing almost everything before buying a record can remove one of the great pleasures of browsing: the possibility that the first real encounter happens at home when the needle drops. Dave introduces The Blind-Buy Test: Set a small discovery budget — $10 or $15. Go into a record store - in person or…
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