August 23, 2020

Try and imagine how many records there are in this world. Think of all the places they exist. Record Shops, swap meets, thrift stores, yard sales. Listening rooms, living rooms. Boxes gathering dust in attics and water damage in basements, buried in the backs of closets and storage units. LPs in tote bags and 45s in hard cases, mailers traveling by air. Decades of pressed wax, resting and turning over, recorded, released and collected everywhere. Most of us will only ever see a small sliver of it all, hardly more than what our little corner of the world contains. We frequent our record shops and thrift stores, we know who’s who of the local collectors, and we stay up on what we know to look for online. Maybe we even get to travel now and then and hit up shops in other cities, or drive through other small towns. But in terms of what’s really out there, the sheer volume of what the world holds, we are left imagining.