I’m definitely addicted! I’ve got most of what I wanted now, so will definitely slow down now.
before the pandemic I would go to Rough Trade in East London at least a couple of times of month for performances/ signings, and when I’d go I would take a couple of records from their back catalogue to sign as well. So the likes of Ride, Primal Scream, Manics, Feeder, Ian Brown, John Grant, Feeder, Keane, Blossoms, Paul Draper and many more. So probably half of the signed records are personalised to me.
the rest are new releases either direct from the artist or from recordstore who do quite a bit of signed stuff.
bandcamp is also pretty good, as you can after get things personalised by the artist.
I’m in the middle of building a cabin in the back garden where the records will go along with a Pro-Ject X2 that I’ve just got - so when that’s finished I will have somewhere really good to enjoy listening to music.
once I’m ready to start moving the records to the cabin, I might start to do the some with the sleeves. Bloody mammoth and expensive job. But worth the effort. The amount of space a record collection takes up really starts to get big!