With ebay , youtube , sound files galore and price guides / label discographies online at the click of a button , millions of sellers and forums to ask questions i feel for the new collectors , never knowing what its like to own a crap record , gettting hundreds of tunes on a disc for the cost of a pint of stella from a mate
Not like having to go to old grotty record shops and sift through 1000's of crap tunes to find something slightly different , buying blind of mailing lists , ringing up to find the record has gone , paying well over the odds for a record , buying boot that you told was an original , buying records that you were told were classic oldies only to find they were not etc.
If i had all the money that i had spent on records then , id spend it on records now and have better ones