What comes around goes around… especially where vinyl is considered. I still remember when Home of the Hits record shop closed on Elmwood Avenue. Around that time (2006), it was truly the death knell ...

Spiral Scratch is the kind of record it’s easy to romanticise. It was recorded in relative obscurity during studio downtime by a then unknown Martin Hannett, funded by money borrowed from friends.

Does that even mean anything in a world where anyone can record a song and stick it up on the internet the same day? Maybe not, but there was a time not too long ago when the major record labels had ...