Manafonistas

In a Spike Milligan story about (if I remember correctly) a short break in Paris, the narrator, describes waking up in his 3rd floor hotel bedroom, opening the doors and stepping out onto the balcony, and then (as he writes) … „I remembered – I didn’t have one!“ Well something similar happened to me today. I excitedly drove to the post office to pick up a package from Kudos Records, from whom I’d ordered the Purity Supreme ep „Always Already“ – Purity Supreme being a collaboration between Leslie Winer and Christophe Van Huffel. I slit it open with an eager finger (that I had to hand (so to speak)) and remembered that wonderful feeling I had years ago whenever I bought a new record – that wonderful, but slightly unfamiliar feeling … unfamiliar because it’s years since I’ve been in the habit of buying records – the reason being: I don’t have a record player! (something I should have remembered when reading Michael’s recent Blog post about his turntable!)