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and space once dedicated to CDs in record stores is now going to vinyl and DVDs, another endangered entertainment format. And forget about selling off your precious CD collection. Used music stores rarely pay for them anymore. They just offer you trade or a store credit. Like any craze, the fuss over
vinyl is bound to cool down in the next year or two. But by then, CDs will be down to 25 cents at garage sales, and a chunk of that market will go to vinyl. It should survive and balance out the buyers who just want the latest single on iTunes. But there is something
impersonal about music downloads. You push a button and there it is. There is no sense of real ownership or attachment to the product. There isn’t that tactile pleasure, what John Thompson calls The Ritual, of stripping off the plastic wrap, cracking open the cover, sliding out the pristine disc and hearing that timeless pop as the needle hits the groove. Next time you’re in a music
store, pick up a new vinyl copy of the album that changed your life. I dare you not to walk out of the store with it under your arm. Long live the revolutions!
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permits the reader to understand what drove Crowhurst to set off in the face of near-certain catastrophe, comprehend what it is to be all alone on the ocean in a tiny (40 foot) sailing boat, and ponder how it all ended so badly. There is mystery, tragedy, madness – and compassion, too – in their
stellar recreation of the ill-fated voyage of the trimaran Teignmouth Electron. The events would seem fictional given the drama as it played out, but every bit is true. Crowhurst’s odyssey is well documented in modern culture. Three
films (Russian and French interpretations, and the British documentary Deep Water) stage productions, a video art installation by British artist Tacita Dean, an opera, poems, and several novels – including Robert Stone’s novel, Outerbridge Bound – are all based on the events Tomalin and Hall recount so ably here. Today the Teignmouth Electron lies abandoned and rotting on a small
Caribbean island. It’s a fitting end to a haunting tale of solo sailing gone horribly awry.
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