The sound, the physicality, the personal connection with an object not connected to any network and not sending back meta-data to advertisers, its attention is on you and yours upon it. Because music is important. Not anyone's opinion about you, and not how many other people are listening with you. It's the glory of sitting close and watching it spin.
In this case it's the first track from the late great Joe Strummer's last album, Street Core. I discovered this album from a magazine compilation that featured the second track, Get Down Moses. I heard the song and then almost immediately found out he had passed away. This album, apart from being incredible, has a close spot in a lot of music fans' hearts and when it was released on vinyl for Record Store Day back in 2010 I snatched it up greedily.
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