279. Owen Dixon
September 13th, 2011 | Published in Backers
I supported your project because it’s a cause dear to my heart. To be fair I mainly buy CDs these days but I do still pick up the occasional bit of vinyl, and I love visiting independent record shops / book shops when I go to a new place. I’d noticed their numbers were declining though – when I moved to Letchworth in the early 80s there were three record shops and at least a couple each in the surrounding towns. Nowadays if you disregard supermarkets and their chart fodder there’s only David’s Music / Bookshop left. It’s easy to order stuff cheaply online (and I admit I have done so in the past), but if everyone went by price alone these places would disappear. They are cultural oases – most of the really good friends I’ve made since moving to this town have come from chats in David’s, and you can’t do that with Amazon or eBay.
And in case you were in any doubt, the record shop that changed my life is defintely David’s (http://www.davids-music.co.uk/) – I bought a DVD of your film there on this year’s record Store Day.
First: The Diary Of Horace Wimp by ELO.
Last: Nobody Will Be There by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs.