The Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and More: All You Need to Know About Collecting Essential Music from Cylinders and CDs to LPs and Tapes
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The Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and More: All You Need to Know About Collecting Essential Music from Cylinders and CDs to LPs and Tapes
The Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and More: All You Need to Know About Collecting Essential Music from Cylinders and CDs to LPs and Tapes

The Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and More: All You Need to Know About Collecting Essential Music from Cylinders and CDs to LPs and Tapes

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Dave Thompson (Author)  

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An in-depth and comprehensive guide to ae and history of ae music collecting EThe Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and MoreE traces the hobby from its beginnings over a century ago. The book features informative and entertaining sections on every significant format in which recorded music has been released ae and some that are now almost completely forgotten.?Based on Dave Thompson's original Backbeat classic EThe Music Lover's Guide to Record CollectingE this revamped colorful expanded edition takes readers from the early days of cylinders 78s and Edison records on through 45s LPs 8-tracks cassettes bootlegs CDs MiniDiscs MP3s LPs and other formats.?Landmark labels collectable artists specialist themes and more are explored across a series of essays while dozens of color images bring the most obscure corners of the hobby to life. Unlike other volumes that focus exclusively on vinyl this book caters to the audiophile whose obsession for music welcomes all formats. Through it all the joy and fascination of music collecting in all its guises comes alive.
DAVE THOMPSON (Newark, DE) is the author of almost 200 books on music and pop culture, including I Hate New Music: The Classic Rock Manifesto and Robert Plant: The Voice That Sailed the Zeppelin (Backbeat Books). A columnist with the record-collecting journal Goldmine, he is also editor of the magazine's series of LP and 45 price guides.
  • Contributor: Dave Thompson
  • Imprint: Backbeat Books
  • ISBN13: 9781617136863
  • Number of Pages: 304
  • Packaged Dimensions: 254x253x16mm
  • Packaged Weight: 1061
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Release Date: 2018-09-01
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: DAVE THOMPSON (Newark, DE) is the author of almost 200 books on music and pop culture, including I Hate New Music: The Classic Rock Manifesto and Robert Plant: The Voice That Sailed the Zeppelin (Backbeat Books). A columnist with the record-collecting journal Goldmine, he is also editor of the magazine's series of LP and 45 price guides.

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