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For the love of CDs

by | Nov 3, 2023 | Uncategorised | 0 comments

In the recent flurry of activity I realised I’d not posted my final piece from August. You know the ones that should have been here but ended up at Americana UK.

So here it is. some musings on running an online CD shop, which has absorbed a lot of time that could have been spent writing things here over the last 3 years. Click on the title to whisked away to AUK.

Collecting music is a serious business – Stories from a CD shop

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