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Just an update about whatever vinyl "resurgence" there is in the music buyers' world:  Returning from another of those 2-day clearout sales at our #1 local record store (whch yielded a fair share of "great finds" for me too, but at 1 EUR apiece you cannot often go totally wrong anyway ), I found my impressions of the two sales days of last year confirmed again throughout all the hours I spent there on Friday and Saturday: The percentage of young'uns (between, say, 15-16 and 30) was really high, and a fair share of them were female. This was particularly evident in the vinyl rooms (the share of youngsters in the CD room seemed lower). From what I noticed at casual glances at the stacks these  youngsters had pulled out or what I overheard of their discussions, even jazz and jazzish pickings were not that rare. Though of course they often searched out the well-known names such as Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, a.o.). What also baffled me were those two kids in their early 20s who patiently dug through the crates of 78s in the regular shop section. Some patience I hardly ever can muster anymore because there is very little of interest in the fields of jazz, R&B or rock'n'roll in there. You usually have to dig through about 100 or 200 items of popular ("Schlager")/light classics/folk pop etc. dross before finding anything of some interest.  The only marked generational difference I noticed was (as always) that the early birds who lined up well before the shop opened to get an early start on everyone else were almost all of them well past 40 or even 50. Even at other recent trips to the shop I noticed that vinyl does attract a lot of youngsters, and nowhere near all of them hung out around the hip-hop or Metal crates.  Anyway, nice to see vinyl isn't something only for the 50+ or even 60+ generation yet. 

Continuing shitstorm  in Boston.  Only answer is total house cleaning.  A huge part of this horrid start is pitching - but pitching coach didn't get shit-canned because he is the GM's buddy.  A crap roster is the GM's fault but firing him - immensely justified IMO - doesn't change the people on the field so Cora had to go. He'll be fine and probably much happier.  The team, who the hell knows?

Brahms - Sonatas (with Barenboim)  

This should have made it to CD...    

My personal favorite BGO reissue.