Platter, belt, tone arm, dust cover, speed
45, 78, and 33
Rotation, rotation, location, location
My bedroom, my own private listening station
Dust it off, put it on, let the record spin
Listen for the scratches and the pops that lie within
From A side to B side don’t think twice, it’s all right
The albums go all night, my setup: my bedside
I ordered the import direct from Japan
It’s black and white splatter and 180gram
Hand-numbered with Sharpie out of 700
Mail-order exclusive you know that I bought it
They’re growing and growing, I’ve run out of shelves
But I’ll keep this going as I trade and sell
I’ll always hang on to the ones of importance
The first one I bought is still happily stored in my shelves

Acid Mothers, Acme, Aesop, Against Me!
Baroness, Beastie Boys, Blue Nile, David Bowie
Cave In, Ceremony, Code Orange, Coltrane
Darkness, Death Cab, Devo, Don Cab
Eno, Excel, Fatboy, Falco
Glassjaw, Green Jelly, Harvey Milk, Hold Steady
Iceburn, Indecision, Joe Jackson, Janis Joplin
Killer Mike, Kittyhawk, Kozelek, Kvelertak

12, 10, 7, are the inches that they go
The interims are rare, but they’re cool to find to show
There’s hardcore and post-punk and disco and prog rock
And lo-fi and synth-funk and jangle and hip hop
You always gotta shop at the independent stores
Before Urban Outfitters closes all their doors
Chicago’s got Reckless and Hip Cat and Laurie’s
And more shops all hidden in corners or backstreets
To find missing pieces of your favorite bands
And see them and hold them in impassioned hands
Then spin them and put them into the right section
As one by one they will complete your collection
The vinyl is one thing, the songs something else
Combination of music you love and the smell
Of the jacket, the sleeve and the record itself
As the spines all line up and they read A to Z on my shelves

Little Women, Liturgy, Matmos, Ministry
New Order, NOFX, 108, One Last Wish
Pelican, Iggy Pop, R.E.M., Rorschach
Self Defense, Shamen, Sinatra, Slapshot
Sonic Youth, Style Council, Talking Heads, Devin Townsend
U2, UFO, Vapors, Violent Femmes
Witchdoctor, Wombats, XBXRX
Neil Young, Yello, Yaz, Mindwarp Zodiac