Put on your red shoes and dance the blues

Those of you in the know are probably hip to the collage/wallpaper thing going on along the longest wall in my bedroom. About a year ago I started buying second hand rock records for a little project. Now an entire wall is covered in album covers ranging from the honestly cool- Lou Reed, the Beatles- to the ironically cool- the B-52's, Pat Benetar. I didn't stop buying though and every week or so I come home with a new precious find.

I haven't been able to listen to any of them though. I haven't had access to a turntable since our old one broke in 1990, that is until now. I went nuts with the student budget (ie. how am I getting to class in November?) and decided to order a portable turntable. I figured a portable one would be cheaper, easier to use and more convenient and since I don't have a lot of money and I don't particularly care about top of the line sound quality (not that I have any well cared for records anyways) the Numark PT-01 was a pretty good choice for the money, if you ask me.



No super fancy bells and whistles really, but it hooks up to my existing mini-stereo and the sound quality is pretty good for portable analog technology, and this Montreal company got it to me in three days from when I ordered it, a feat of heroism by Canadian postal standards. I did forget, however, how much of a bastard skipping tracks is with analog recordings, but at least I'm not dealing with cassette tapes.

Keep on Tranglin,

Anthony