It is 5 AM, Do you Know where Mikey Fremer is?

I would say that by Michael Fremer's apparent knowledge of music, he listens to it a great deal. Also, being able to go home and possibly pull a record that you just heard someplace else is most likely a valuable asset, especially if you review things for a livelihood. Me? I have a lot of albums I haven't heard, yet.

All of my 3,000+ records have been listened to at least once. Most of my records were bought in the 70's and 80's and have been the predominant source of music in my house ever since.

Ok, this is not a complaint, but I am curious if anyone else thought that the production quality on his second DVD took a dive compared to the first one. I like the visits to pressing plants, but for example all the segments end by freeze frame until the dvd player swithces to the next chapter.

The whole DVD felt cheesy and I couldn't believe it cost that much.

Just my opinion.

I wish I had LP-laden garage sales to go to. My area has 3-4 used LP shops. One, used to be reasonably priced. However, one came in with the 410, $15, $20 and all the other shops raised their prices accordingly. I still get a small discount for being a "good" customer, but I went from buying 5-10 a week (@ $3-$5 each) to 1-2 every couple of weeks. I have 1500 +/_ and listen to every one eventually. I spent a couple hours almost every night and 5-6 hours both Sat & Sun staring about 8am. There is no "sealed" Lp in my collection. There were some but:
Open, Clean & Play is my motto.

I enjoyed it and picked up some great tips. I went out and bought a vegetable brush (to clean my brushes) and static guard for the rug. No more needing to touch my rack before I touch my rig. Also learned some better techniques for cleaning, etc, not to mention a little primer on collecting. I started with vinyl at a very young age (like many of us) and just thought I knew what I was doing. I wasn't far off but the tips were well worth the price of the DVD. Not to mention, nothing else out there DVD wise.